Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 11-09-07 10:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker But I've played with a new feature in CS5 that helps with this: the Auto Edge Detect tool in Refine Selection is very smart. It does a great job with texture, hair, etc. I've been able to lift a flower off a background, use Content A

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-09-07 10:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker But I've played with a new feature in CS5 that helps with this: the Auto Edge Detect tool in Refine Selection is very smart. It does a great job with texture, hair, etc. I've been able to lift a flower off a background, use Content

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Christine Aguila
On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Cotty wrote: > > > That's the worst promotional video I've ever seen! > That script is filled with saccharin cliche! Yikes. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/lis

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Anthony Farr
On 8 September 2011 12:12, John Sessoms wrote: > > > Or use out of doors locations where you can throw the background pleasingly > out of focus. > > -- Eschewing background screens of any type is frequently preferable. It would have been for this presenter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMK329

RE: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Bob W" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGP4skmw_M "Louise et Joseph Simone" were presenters at the 2011 PPNC convention. They're hilariously "French" in person, although I think he's really Italian & she's Canadian from Montreal. They used a local college student intern volunteer as thei

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 7, 2011, at 7:06 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Bruce Walker >> On 11-09-07 11:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGP4skmw_M >>> >>> "Louise et Joseph Simone" were presenters at the 2011 PPNC convention. >>> They're hilariously "French" in person, although I t

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On 11-09-07 11:30 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Anthony Farr On 7 September 2011 01:31, John Sessoms wrote: http://www.virtualbackgrounds.net/public_html/pages/Welcome_e.html These are the front projection units that I wrote about. You only need these to shoot film, digi

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On 11-09-07 11:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGP4skmw_M "Louise et Joseph Simone" were presenters at the 2011 PPNC convention. They're hilariously "French" in person, although I think he's really Italian & she's Canadian from Montreal. They used

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Anthony Farr
On 8 September 2011 01:30, John Sessoms wrote: > > > These work as well as or better with digital than they did with film. > They work just the same with either kind of capture. It's an optical process so the light rays getting to the film or sensor are just the same no matter what recording med

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Cotty
That's the worst promotional video I've ever seen! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http:/

RE: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Bob W
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGP4skmw_M > > "Louise et Joseph Simone" were presenters at the 2011 PPNC convention. > They're hilariously "French" in person, although I think he's really > Italian & she's Canadian from Montreal. > > They used a local college student intern volunteer as the

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-09-07 11:30 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Anthony Farr On 7 September 2011 01:31, John Sessoms wrote: http://www.virtualbackgrounds.net/public_html/pages/Welcome_e.html These are the front projection units that I wrote about. You only need these to shoot film, digital capture would be

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-09-07 11:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGP4skmw_M "Louise et Joseph Simone" were presenters at the 2011 PPNC convention. They're hilariously "French" in person, although I think he's really Italian & she's Canadian from Montreal. They used a local college

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Anthony Farr On 7 September 2011 01:31, John Sessoms wrote: http://www.virtualbackgrounds.net/public_html/pages/Welcome_e.html These are the front projection units that I wrote about. You only need these to shoot film, digital capture would be better and easier with green screen. The

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Darren Addy This was done over 30 years ago (before green screen) in a lot of portrait studios with a special screen and projector. The screen was different from the usual as it was made up of thousands to tiny black glass balls that would reflect the projected light straight back at the ca

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On 11-09-06 11:31 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Larry Colen I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not g

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Anthony Farr
On 7 September 2011 11:07, Larry Colen wrote: >. > > That one works with transparencies, i.e. slides, not digitally generated > images. > Exchanging a digital projector for a slide projector would make no difference to the basic concept, after some technicalities were ironed out. Electronic fla

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-09-06 11:31 AM, John Sessoms wrote: >> From: Larry Colen >>> I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... >>> >>> To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and >>> shine it on the b

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Doug Brewer
yeah, we used to use one of these in the school photo biz as one of our set-ups. Generally used for seniors, though sometimes we would open it up to other classes. On 9/6/11 5:33 PM, Darren Addy wrote: This was done over 30 years ago (before green screen) in a lot of portrait studios with a sp

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Anthony Farr
On 7 September 2011 07:33, Darren Addy wrote: > This was done over 30 years ago (before green screen) in a lot of > portrait studios with a special screen and projector. The screen was > different from the usual as it was made up of thousands to tiny black > glass balls that would reflect the proj

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Anthony Farr
On 7 September 2011 01:31, John Sessoms wrote: > > http://www.virtualbackgrounds.net/public_html/pages/Welcome_e.html > > -- These are the front projection units that I wrote about. You only need these to shoot film, digital capture would be better and easier with green screen. regards, Anthony

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Darren Addy
This was done over 30 years ago (before green screen) in a lot of portrait studios with a special screen and projector. The screen was different from the usual as it was made up of thousands to tiny black glass balls that would reflect the projected light straight back at the camera (which had to b

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:31 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... >> >> To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and >> shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not g

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-09-06 11:31 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Larry Colen I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out by s

RE: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread John Sessoms
From: Larry Colen I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out by strobes, so replace the halogen bulb with a

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-06 Thread Anthony Farr
On 6 September 2011 09:44, David Savage wrote: > On 6 September 2011 04:47, William Robb wrote: >> On 05/09/2011 12:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... >>> >>> To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video i

lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-05 Thread luiz.felipe
it started when... I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and >shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out >by strobes, so replace the halogen bulb with

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-05 Thread David Savage
On 6 September 2011 04:47, William Robb wrote: > On 05/09/2011 12:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... >> >> To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs >> and shine it on the background.  It wouldn't b

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-05 Thread William Robb
On 05/09/2011 12:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out by strobes, so replace

Re: lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-09-05 2:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out by strobes, so replace th

lighting idea, would it work?

2011-09-05 Thread Larry Colen
I wonder if this would work, and if so would there be a market for it... To make a background for photos, take a projector that has video inputs and shine it on the background. It wouldn't be bright enough to not get washed out by strobes, so replace the halogen bulb with a strobe. You'd need