On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Doh. The URL… http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16498665&size=lg > On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting. Would love to be able to afford a few of those. They appear to >> be bulb soft boxes as well. >> >> Some dozen years ago I authored a commercial for Dodge Ram that had the >> truck climbing a mountain at night in a storm. Barking Weasel, the >> production company that shot it – on Mammoth Mountain in California – used >> one big soft box mounted on a crane to simulate moonlight and several huge >> strobes to simulate lightning flashes. And, of course, a Hollywood rain >> machine, which is basically a giant overhead sprinkler, and several smoke >> machines to make fog. Some PAs were assigned to climb trees, so they could >> drop branches down on the truck as it passed. We even had a wolf who >> appeared to come snarling out of the bushes, although he was actually shot >> in a studio and edited in later. The sound track was a woman singing >> Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild." >> >> I don't' have the commercial on line, but I have a still I shot that I took >> with my LX. Don't remember what lens for sure, but it was probably the >> M200/4. I just opened the shutter in auto exposure mode and waited for a >> "lightning bolt" to provide enough illumination and close the shutter. Seen >> here before, but probably not in the last ten years. Note the heavy grain. >> Probably ISO 800 film. We used to think that was okay. I was kind of shocked >> to see the grain when I opened this file today. Hadn't looked at it in ten >> years or so. Perhaps the grain works here, although it generally seems more >> appropriate in BW photography. >> >> Paul
Wait a minute. Next you are going to be saying that there is no Santa Claus? Do you really mean that those lovely commercials were made using props and gimmicks?!? Actually, I think that that the production process is quite mind boggling, whether done with strobes or actual lightening. And your still shot looks good too! stan -- 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.
