Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/14/06 12:01

"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
> William Davis 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?

Cool your jets, Mr. Heffels. Mr. Davis is explaining the
PROCESS of how he arrived at his BKM (Best Known
Method) and I personally appreciate the time he took to
give us the full history even more than just the valuable
info of the BKM itself.

[Back to original message]