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Cian Daly

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  1. I work at a small rental company which sometimes rents to idiots. One of these idiots decided to cover a c stand in black gaffer tape. The gaffer tape was left on there for months (this was before my tenure!) and had now broken down and almost hardened to a gum. I've tried metylated spirits and a rag and this has helped to clean some of it but not all. I was considering sandpaper, or even running a blowtorch/handtorch along the stand for a few seconds. Is this a terrible idea? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
  2. Thanks everyone for your advice with this, it's been invaluable. Cian
  3. Hi Chris I haven't come across Rory but it's good to know that there is life for an Irish clapper/loader in the states as that is my plan, all green card issues aside. regarding shooting outside, we won't have the grip equipment or crew to safely rig a silk of that size. I could consider rigging the backdrop outdoor but Irish weather changes every fifteen minutes. Any warehouse we use will more than likely be vacant and in a quiet area which means we could shoot in the car park and use the warehouse as a back up if it rains. Out of curiousity, how large was the source that you were shining through the silk, or was it sunlight? The largest source I can get my hands on in Cork is a 1200watt HMI, not enough really.
  4. Hello to everyone at Cinematography.com This is my first so I'll give a little about myself. I'm a graduate from a tiny film school in Ireland with 16mm training and video training. I'm currently attempting to break into Irleand's similarly tiny film industry. Or more like Ireland RED industry, the way things are going . I am currently working with a local theatre company as their general "video guy". My main duties are that of a lighting cameraman. I need to shoot a static image of a sports car, something like a subaru imprezza (see attachment), against a black backdrop. The budget is low, and my city, Cork, has one rental facility that caters towards micro-budget stuff, and no studio facilities to speak of. So I'm considering using a warehouse with lots of skylights and erecting a black backdrop, as I've been told that cars are mainly lit from overhead by soft light such as through a silk for the main source, and then have their lines and curves built up by smaller sources such as kino flos/diva lites. Any input from someone with experience in this field would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to clear something up for myself: The lighting jargon varies from country to country, so when people say diva light, that's what I call a kino flow, which to me means a two or four tube fluorescent daylight balanced light that opens like a book, also known as a book light. What is the most commonly used term for this type of light, as I have been using the term kino flow. My thanks in advance, Cian Daly
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