[quote="Rick Farris=""]
kikibalt wrote:Some of my co-workers.
Yesterday we had about two dozen like this walking around the set in bikins all day.
We work about 16 hours a day, but it's not all bad.
-Rick Farris
A little trick that works wonders . . .
It doesn't take me much time to figure out how to light the women, and I don't have to tell them anything.
Some directors don't understand how to set up a shot, and they make lighting more of a challenge as well as the photography.
The good ones do so in a way that works better for everything.
I watch the rehersal, when they finish the key actors step off the set, their stand-ins step on to the set and we light them.
Then the actors return when we are finished. If necessary I might make a small adjustment when the actor is on her mark, and then they shoot.
If it's an actress I like, I will always recheck the light an pretend to make an adjustment, suggesting that I'm fine tuning it just for them.
But I never really change what I have already done correctly.
I'll tell one of my techs to tip the light down a little, then pan it to the right, then tip it back up a little, then a little left.
When I'm done, the light is right where it was in the beginning, but the actor doesn't know that, it makes them feel like I'd taken special care of them.
When I was single, the only time I'd talk to an actress about her light is if I was trying to seduce her.
They never question me about light (except Faye Dunaway who is crazy) and if they did I might answer if they were a major player, but most know they don't know anything about light values and keep their mouths shut. Barbara Streisand knows her light, but very few do.
I once had a small time actor who was very impressed with himself ask me how I planned to light him.
I just pointed over to a soft light fixture and said, "With that", and I walked away. That would be like me asking him, "how do you plan to play that scene?"
If it were Michael Landon, he might on occasion make a special request.
In one "Highway To Heaven" episode, Mike really liked the actress he'd cast in a role.
He came to me and told me to take my time and light her as I would for a feature. I never took more time or thought in lighting a scene.
The following year that episode won an Emmy for Best Cinematography. The Emmy went to our brilliant veteran cinematographer, Ted Voitlander.
But I received an Emmy Citation for my contribution to the award. That means as much to me as my CBHOF induction.
Most cameramen would take all the credit, but not Teddy, rest his soul. All of us who were hired by Landon were hired for a reason.
We were all artists in which he could trust, and he took care of us as such.[/quote]
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Great photo! 
