Dylan Hargreaves
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Hey Todd,
Thanks for the speedy response! Custom would be ideal, but as ever it comes down to budget. The situation is that we were over in the States working on this project and the schedule with the actors was in hindsight, a little too tight. We ended up doing about 3 20 hour days in a row and something had to give. In the end, it was the b-roll driver’s eye stuff. I figured if the worst came to the worst, I could find something on iStock or failing that, go and shoot what we need here in the UK and pass it off as the US, (hey, it’s night, it could work!)
Then it occurred to me that the good people of the CoW might just have something suitable sitting on a shelf, hence the shout out, as with the best will in the world, we probably just don’t have the funds for anything more than ‘stock’ rates.
Although a C300PL with superspeeds sounds damn fine…
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Ok, cool, but what’s it selling?
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Cheers for the input all. The company that builds one of these first could make a lot of money… A lot of shooters out there looking for their next shiny new toy. Stick a Philip Bloom signature on it and flog it for twice the price!
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Yeah, but still… A well designed piece of kit that does what it sets out to do will always find a place within the market, and I don’t think the cost of a curved slider would necessarily be prohibitive…
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I’d agree Mark, thanks for the notes!
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Thanks Mark,
Yeah it was difficult angling light in to some of the darker areas whilst keeping it off the satin – that stuff was blowing out at the slightest bit of spill! Need to get me some small mirrors.
As a test of a new camera (an FS700) and the chance to try out some different lighting techniques from my usual fare it’s been interesting way to spend the day! (If it was a proper, paying gig rather than a favour to the client for some back-end purposes I’d be breaking out a DP, Art Director and a far better cam op/focus puller than me!)
As an aside, I’m really impressed with the Fs700 so far!
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So here’s what I ended up doing… Tungsten backlight with a cooler bounced key and fill. Ditched the white background and swung the set round in front of the black window drapes.
A little set dressing in the form of some satin fabric borrowed from my daughter’s dress up box and some fairy lights from the living room.
It’s definitely warmer than white on white…Maybe a little too warm? My partner said it looks almost Christmassy. She may have a point!
With apologies for YouTube compression. Any notes gratefully appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVZYaZKK6Y&feature=player_embedded
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That’s some great advice, thanks Todd!
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Pack of wolves! Love it!
Hi Todd, it’s a range of cosmetics for the ladies. Mostly white containers with pastel green and pink labelling. Sounds horrible but actually quite nice! Also a couple of bars of soap.
I have a small photography table which looks very nice underlit. Thinking of putting some satin type material on top of that and sitting the products on top.
As for a back drop, would darker than the product be advisable?
Cheers!
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Thanks for responding Jon, but unfortunately, the ‘mono’ fix I applied has overwritten the issue. I’ll look at recreating but up against deadlines at the moment.