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Tara

I worked in VFX for a major post house and you are right - they shoot a lot of things as cheaply as possible and then everything is added in post, and while often it is *possible to make it look pretty good that way, it's never going to look as good as in-camera, ESPECIALLY not for less than it would have cost to shoot it right in the first place.

Youtalkingtome

Thank you for sharing that! For me, movies that are digitally shot and edited to death in post never look quite right, and I feel like the lighting has so much to do with that, especially the lighting of the actors.

Tara

Definitely. We used to have to do so much isolation work to relight them and it always looked off. I even remember putting sky reflections into eyes etc. but it will never be perfect without weeks and weeks to work on in, and so few shots get that amount of time

Youtalkingtome

All of that just seems like so much extra VFX work (and I can't imagine how much time you had to put in making these alterations) when a DP could have just had the scene set up and lit properly. It's absolutely mind-boggling.