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[Sean Kapleton]

Really loving the pics everyone – really inspirational!

I am curious about grey backgrounds myself as the new space i am moving to has red brick walls behind both my station and the client monitor. I posted early last week and got a few responses but I am curious to get some more suggestions about cheap / easy solutions for putting up grey behind a 50″ plasma as well as my 24″ confidence monitor which sit right in front of red brick.

I will post some shots of the new space when i get home
cheers

[Christopher Adams]

If you can’t get a neutral wall because of the bricks you could surround it with gray poster board or something. Making it tasteful of course. But the idea is that anything white or black or non neutral grey will mess up your color sense as well as your contrast sense. Alexis does talk about this in both as a guest on Taoofcolor.com podcasts with Patrick as well as in his book. I even have in place the 6500k lume lights on the back of the plasma to reduce eye fatigue as well as providing good light to grade with. If you are grading for a theater release you will have a pretty dark suite but TV and broadcast you should have some light. Pref. Daylight balanced. Don’t want to mix light temp. in the room either.
Here is a link to the Lume lights I used:
https://www.cinemaquestinc.com/Ideal-Lume.htm

[Sean Kapleton]

Hey Chris,

thank you for the response!

I am thinking to have something tasteful indeed – not sure exactly what but I would like it to go up and down for behind both monitors along with 6500 3-4ft bulbs installed in fluorescent bulb fixtures – hoping a nice combo of the two will create a good back drop for the monitors.

[Rob Mcland]

Hello Illya Laney
Green scopes and panels with blue LCD. Remind me of the old 14 hours days 🙂

[Illya Laney]

I use the CinemaQuest lights too for my studio and in my living room. I totally recommend them. The website is actually a cool resource for color critical monitoring geekery.

twitter.com/illyalaney

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[Sean Kapleton]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/598137-REG/Botero_C04957_049_Collapsible_Background_5x7.html

something like this i could temporarily mount right behind my 50″ panny with some of those cinemaquest lights pointing up and sitting behind where the tv stand sits – what do you think? I do want it to look as nice as possible considering it is a large beautiful brick wall.

[Christopher Adams]

That might work. put up the photo popup. then make it look nice.
CJ

[Ian De brí]

https://magicprefs.com/
Gives you a proper middle click.

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