puredrifting
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Good luck! Once you get a foot in the door, if you have what it takes, you can rise through the ranks fairly quickly. There is a saying that is so true, "good PAs don't stay in PAs".
Dan
Dan
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alexandroff
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thx!
and if anything comes up on that LA group with someone willing to take risks testing, keep me in mind
and if anything comes up on that LA group with someone willing to take risks testing, keep me in mind
I have a leature theatre lighting question in mind for long time too.
I'm helping my professor to tape the seminar in a large university leature theatre with 250 students sitting there. I set my DVX 100B at the very last row. There are only typical ceiling lights in the theatre, no extra video lighting or spot light installed. My professor was standing in front of the podium and his face looked dark in my last shooting. I read the 3-points lighting suggestions above but seems don't work on me becasue I don't shoot close-up very often. The video must including on screen PowerPoint presentation, students' question period...etc. It looks weird if 3-points video lightings closed to the podium, from the wide angle picture.
Do I need to set up two Fresnel lights from the last row (50 fts away from podium) in stead of omni/tota open face lighting ?
I'm helping my professor to tape the seminar in a large university leature theatre with 250 students sitting there. I set my DVX 100B at the very last row. There are only typical ceiling lights in the theatre, no extra video lighting or spot light installed. My professor was standing in front of the podium and his face looked dark in my last shooting. I read the 3-points lighting suggestions above but seems don't work on me becasue I don't shoot close-up very often. The video must including on screen PowerPoint presentation, students' question period...etc. It looks weird if 3-points video lightings closed to the podium, from the wide angle picture.
Do I need to set up two Fresnel lights from the last row (50 fts away from podium) in stead of omni/tota open face lighting ?
eL ProduceR
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Hello Perrone, I would like to know if this setup is what you ended up using on that shoot; 4k of lighting on one person seems like too much punch (you stated the 750w was for background), were these lights tungsten or fluorescent?
PerroneFord
Deals in Lead
Power was an issue so I pared down a LOT. And no, I don't typically use all that light. But I wanted to have the options.
I ended up with a Rifa 88 for key, 1k open face into an umbrella for fill, 750w broad on backround. That was all the power I had.
Because of the restrictions in the room, I had maybe 15 ft of width to make the shot. I had 45ft of depth maybe, but a NARROW space in which to work.
The ambient was also a lot less than I had thought due to starting an hour later than scheduled. So I didn't need to try to match levels as much.
Note: This was the VERY first time I needed an umbrella on a shoot. There wasn't room to set up a bounce or a silk. And the umbrella was literally touching the side wall. I used every inch of the space I had to try to make it work. The Lowel DP lights are kind of a pain in this regard because you cannot gel them AND use an umbrella. So I had the diffuser on the open face to cut the levels down as much as I could, then bounced that into an umbrella. The fill was still nearly 1:1 which was not what I was after.
I ended up with a Rifa 88 for key, 1k open face into an umbrella for fill, 750w broad on backround. That was all the power I had.
Because of the restrictions in the room, I had maybe 15 ft of width to make the shot. I had 45ft of depth maybe, but a NARROW space in which to work.
The ambient was also a lot less than I had thought due to starting an hour later than scheduled. So I didn't need to try to match levels as much.
Note: This was the VERY first time I needed an umbrella on a shoot. There wasn't room to set up a bounce or a silk. And the umbrella was literally touching the side wall. I used every inch of the space I had to try to make it work. The Lowel DP lights are kind of a pain in this regard because you cannot gel them AND use an umbrella. So I had the diffuser on the open face to cut the levels down as much as I could, then bounced that into an umbrella. The fill was still nearly 1:1 which was not what I was after.