More specifically, he was shooting a period film with all natural lighting — candles, to be precise, which you may recall are somewhat dimmer than professional lighting setups! (Terence Malick, or rather his cinematographer, does this too)
But yes, the film speed was an issue, since you can't exactly use mega-fast film for 35mm or the grain will be distracting.
No light in film is natural. As no camera is like a human eye, not matter what apperture it is using.
Proper use of lightning is part of the art. The hardest part for the movie photography director.
What you are saying is that it was better for this movie, as a picture would be better for a realist painter's work.
There are millions of finely executed motion pictures with great image that gave your eyes the impression you were seeing actual candle light, without feeling it was underwater, like Kubrick did.
with all natural lighting — candles, to be precise
There is nothing at all natural about using several hundred candles in a room. No one would ever do that - a room that size would get 20 at most.
If he had actually used 20 candles and added extra light carefully tinted to match the color of a candle it would actually end up looking much more natural. But then no one would talk about it.....
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More specifically, he was shooting a period film with all natural lighting — candles, to be precise, which you may recall are somewhat dimmer than professional lighting setups! (Terence Malick, or rather his cinematographer, does this too)
But yes, the film speed was an issue, since you can't exactly use mega-fast film for 35mm or the grain will be distracting.
No light in film is natural. As no camera is like a human eye, not matter what apperture it is using.
Proper use of lightning is part of the art. The hardest part for the movie photography director.
What you are saying is that it was better for this movie, as a picture would be better for a realist painter's work.
There are millions of finely executed motion pictures with great image that gave your eyes the impression you were seeing actual candle light, without feeling it was underwater, like Kubrick did.
There is nothing at all natural about using several hundred candles in a room. No one would ever do that - a room that size would get 20 at most.
If he had actually used 20 candles and added extra light carefully tinted to match the color of a candle it would actually end up looking much more natural. But then no one would talk about it.....