On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > A musician approached me today with an interesting proposition. He > wants me and my colleges to make some promo pictures of him, a staged > performanse in studio, with light, smoke, the whole lot. > We can borrow a smoke mashine for the job, thats no problem, but how > do we simulate stage light? Flashes and gels will provide fanjcy > colors. But how do we direct the light to make it look like real stage > lightening? > > Anybody who can enlighten me (hey, thats a pun :-) ) on this, or help > me in the right direction? > I might find something useful at the Stobist blog, but it's around > 1000 articles there, and thats a lot to read.
As has been said, snoots. Also grids and gels. Stage lighting is a pain in the ass for photography, it always seems to be set up to make the photographs look as bad as possible. scrounge, or borrow a bunch of cheap speedlights on optical triggers, gel them so you get the colored light through the smoke. Experiment with that setup before you do the real shoot, I've been playing with snoots and grids for band photography. Note, also, that if there's a lot of smoke between the musician and the camera, and you light the musician, the light going through the smoke will just obscure things. So be careful where the smoke from the smoke machine goes. > > -- > MaritimTim > > http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
