Club Obi Wan

Weston had commented in the previous thread that it would be nice to see the different effects of various lighting conditions on a single Indy Jacket. Here is my contribution from some pictures I took of my Wested ROLA Special Order Lambskin about a year back.
The first shot was done with natural lighting, the other three were done with different indoor lighting and natural lighting combinations. As you can plainly see, the jacket is prone to be brownish under most conditions, but I was struck by how gray it appears when I went with the darker lighting.

Thanks for jumping on that Ravenswood! That is a significant difference. Anyone else?

Weston

Thanks for the insight Ravenswood...

Lights definetly make a difference. When I see pictures of myself with my Wested, it always has different tones.
The same works for hats. In filmaking the use of lights is even "worse" since the director of photography has full control of lightining.

Outdoors the jacket tends to look in lighter brown. If it's sunny, then the brown will look much lighter and shine. Cloudy days, the jacket will have a dark tone, much less shining.
Indoors, the jacket gets darker, in some lighting conditions it can get almost grey dark colour.

In photography, colours never look the same as in real life. Photographers still use Chrome (positive films) to best capture the true colours, but it works mostly for "hot" colours like yellow, red and green, and not black or brown.
Photographers would prefer to shoot in cloudy conditions rather than sunny days. Why? Because too much light alters the real colours (the exception is for landscapes when in certain hours of the day is better to shoot using sunny days to increase and saturate colours, which can also be achieved using photoshop).

So, pictures can be deceiving. The closest to the true colour of a jacket or a hat is always the outdoors in partially cloudy days.
Back in Raiders, all the scenes were done either in sunny and shining days or indoors using controlled lightining (the dark and shadows in the peruvian temple, the very reddish lights in raven bar, again dark and shadows in the well of souls). So, there was no outdoor scene in a natural cloudly light.

Just wanted to help in this issue...
Cheers guys

Wow, that last pic reminds me of the Temple jacket right after Indy whips Barranca for some reason...cool jacket.

Thanks for posting those pics. As soon as I find a camera that I can borrow, I will post some pics of my US Wings CE using various lighting sources. Keeping my fingers crossed on finding a camera because I would really like to have some pics using the light of an open fire!!

unplugged wrote: Keeping my fingers crossed on finding a camera because I would really like to have some pics using the light of an open fire!!

This is kind of a lousy picture, but it's all I can find for now.



Weston

Now that's what I am talking about .
As soon as I can get a camera from a friend of mine I'll see about doing the same with some different lighting.

Amazing picture Weston...

cheers
teko

Cool stuff in this Thread, guys... thanks!

Great looking jacket Ravenswood!

Cool picture Weston!

Thanks Noah!

Weston

Indeed thanks Noah!

You know, it's weird, Weston... I came back to have a look at that "campfire" shot and thought for a moment it was a photo of Indiana Holt - completely forgetting it was you!

I don't think I've ever seen a photo where your faces looked so much alike!

(I guess that just goes to show how much lighting can play little tricks on our eyes though, huh?)

LOL.