Dennis Size
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“….capable of producing to the FULL standards of today’s American HD broadcast programming.”
You are correct in your statements. The unfotunate issue is that the “FULL standards” have sunk so unbelievably low that any old crap is now acceptable — as long as it doesn’t cost anything.
DS
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JOHN ….. I liked the Sheen interview. It looked very good; and “clean”. It’s what I admire in your work. (Hence my original question!).
I saw the GMA broadcast (Isn’t Robin wonderful to work with?) I thought Bobby did the Green Room. It looked FANTASTIC! I should have known it was your work. CONGRATS.
I’ll be doing the ROYAL WEDDING coverage. Might you be going?DS
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Resend the diagram. It didn’t attach.
How high is the ceiling? What’s your budget?DS
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Thanks for sharing Michael. Looks good. Not bad for “run & gun” during store operations.
2 questions:
Did you not have any fixture available to key for Jennifer’s cross shot close-up?
What temperature setting did you find worked for this set-up?DS
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Congratulations Michael… on the success of your shoot — and your purchase.
As I said, the Locaster is a fabulous fixture, worthy of the ARRI name. I’m glad it was able to work for your shoot. You must have shot relatively tight.
Share a still, or a link if you are able.DS
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I REPEAT…..
What the hell are you shooting? AND Why? (What’s the point of the shoot?)Until you establish what the goal is, you can’t establish a concept. Until you establish a concept you can’t determine the “look”, and how you will light the piece.
As several people have said, it’s dance, so you can run wild conceptually. You MUST have a clear cut idea of what your look needs to be however, before you can use whatever’s at your disposal to make it work.As regards shadows, I’ve never been one to think they’re bad. In deference to my friend John, whose work I ALWAYS admire, I think mutiple shadows could work for you in this situation. I once had an assignment to do the same exact thing you are doing (although I have no idea what you are supposed to be doing).
My assignment was to “theatrically” light a dance piece. There was no need to analyze feet or faces; nor was there any interview or discussion. I was just artistically lighting the performance.I colored the overhead lights blue (with gel). I put my 3 uncolored lights (which were fresnels) right on the floor — evenly spaced along one side of the room — shooting up at the dancers. There were a few mirrors along the wall I was shooting at so I had 3 more lights (in the mirrors bouncing back at me). Where there were no mirrors I had incredible, huge moving shadows of the dancers climbing the walls and onto the ceiling. The lights shooting back into the cameras from the mirrors were broken up by the constant movement of the dancers through the beams of the lights, which had artistic “stars” flaring the cameras (as I had put 4 pt star filters into the cameras). I did add gain to the camera …with the iris wide open.
The end result was very “artistic”; and the director was heard to use the word “genius” in describing what I had done.DS
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According to John (the poster) “I don’t especially care if they can accept batteries or not”
That being said Diva is the best choice — in the current state of technology …. unless of course John has money to burn experimenting with a variety of LED’s — in which case he should go with NILA’s.By the way, I think I know those ENG friends of yours who use OMNI’s and TOTA’s. They’re the ones with no finerprints on any of their fingers! 🙂
DS
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Buy the cheap crappy Home Depot fixtures and outfit them with Kino-Flo Tru-Match 2900K lamps
DS
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For what you’re lighting my weapon of choice would be either the 1’x 1′ LITE PANEL (BiFocus or Bi Color) or the Diva 400 — although the 200 would be lighter for you, since that seems to be your criteria.
We use Color Kinetics’ iWhites and eWhites by the dozens (perhaps hundreds), and they quite good …but not for what you’re shooting. There’s really nothing else currently available for your purposes — except perhaps Arri’s “Broadcaster” LED.DS
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What? Mark are you OK?
Such a big oppportunity to extoll the virtues of LOWEL — yet you didn’t jump all over it!!!??? 🙂DS