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Posted by Martin Heffels on 01/14/06 07:34
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:14:19 -0700, William Davis <davisbill@mac.com>
wrote:
>Turned out the big projector was overkill. I had to light the heck out
>of the foreground talent to balance the images.
Why didn't you ND the projector, or switched it's lamp to half power?
>Moved to a setup where we stacked a couple of lower output projectors
>1000 - 1500 ANSI and registered them into a single image. Then, if we
>had a very dark scene that needed more punch we could use both
>projectors and if there was a very bright scene, we could kill one.
That's too complicated.
>We also kept a lot of 1 and 2 stop ND film around to slap in front of
>the projector lenses if I needed a quick fix to dim the background
>image. (the projectors sometimes have rudimentary ?rightness?controls
>but they take time and menu shuffling to use and having a bunch of
>pre-cut 4x4 ND squares you can slap in front of the projector lens is
>WAY easier.)
Again, why didn't you use them in the first place with your big projector?
cheers
-martin-
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