adywan said:
The first shot has the light partially submerged which is lighting up the muddy water creating the orange/brown glow. Then the ship moves and you can see that this wing raises up slightly and the light is no longer submerged, so we have the white light and is more illuminating. In fact the very first time we see the xwing set should have the orange glow added as the ship doesn't move before this.
Just to clarify my post from the previous page a little - although I reckon the X-wing stays in a generally static position in the swamp throughout this sequence, only being rocked side-to-side a little as R2 falls off, I shouldn't really have referred to the X-wing in the middle shot below as giving off an 'orange' glow. As you say, the X-wing is still giving off a 'white' glow here (just like it does throughout the sequence), but is merely highlighting the murky colour of the water in the set at this point.
What I was trying to get across, is that there's a jarring continuity difference due to the sudden lack of 'low-level mist' being highlighted in 'white' light in this particular 'wide' shot of the X-wing and Dagobah set, compared to the other 'wide' shots that we see before and after it.
Now I happen to really like the look of the middle 'wide' shot here, as it gives a real sense of the 'swampy' conditions, due to the look of the 'scummy' water movement in it. It's not really it's sudden difference in 'low-level mist' compared to the top 'wide' shot here that bothers me, because it's filmed from a different angle, which gives it a bit of leeway. But it's the sudden 're-appearance' of 'low-level mist' in the bottom 'wide' shot that comes a mere 10 seconds after the middle one, that makes the inconsistency stand out...because it happens to be filmed from a very similar angle to the middle shot beforehand.
So while I thought that by 'whitening' the murky light reflection on the water in the middle shot would make for a less obvious difference, I guess adding a little 'low-level mist' to that portion near the wing would allow for a 'white' glow even better -
Although it always distracts me, I guess it's no biggie, as Dagobah's 'mist' might just flow and ebb and flow again very quickly! ;)