1、Cary Fukunaga had seen Animal Kingdom and Snowtown, two features I had shot. We met up in San Francisco for lunch and saw eye to eye in regards to True Detective. We were two young guns cut from a similar oak, and we also had some mutual friends that vouched for our goodness.
2、What comprised your go-to lighting setup on the series?
We used yellow-gold gel on tungsten sources for a sodium-vapor look for night exteriors. We used White Flame Green lighting gels with 1/2 CTO gel on HMI sources for our mercury-light look. Our light sources were a pretty standard set of HMIs and incandescent lights and a lot of KINO FLOs.