Pierre Devereux

Hi Adrien, We are actually going to try and recolour the character this weekend, and change the surface slightly to reduce reflection. I do have another question though, what is said to be the best: 1) Filming with no zoom, but the camera as close to the subject as possible or 2) Placing the camera far away from the subject and using the zoom function? As I said, I am using the Panasonic AF100 with the Lumix 14-140. thank you Pierre

Hi Olliehm, Thank you for the reply. I don't have any pictures to post yet, as we are in the very, very beginning of the project, and I am still busy with loads of testing. The tests that I am currently busy with, involve humanoid characters made from pewter and painted/shined up afterwards. The one specific troublesome character is a blue colour, and has a rather "Deep" head and face (picture the depth of the head of one of the "Alien" characters from mouth to back of head) - add to this the extremely shallow depth of field from the AF101, and I get pinpoint eyes, but the ears are terrible out of focus. To answer Phil, I am using a Lumix 14-140 lens I am finding it difficult to get the right amount of light added that will allow for the aperture to be set around F16 - or even F22 if possible. I am shining lights directly onto the character, but they are still not bright enough to light up the scene properly. I will admit that I am pretty new to the art of lighting, so am probably making terrible simple errors, but, as the days go by, I am sure things will improve! :-) Thanks again guys for the feedback Pierre

Hi, I am doing a project that requires a lot of Green and Blue screen work to be done with the characters. The entire project is character driven, with little to no live people in any of the shots. I am having great difficulty lighting the characters nicely, so that I can get decent focus on them. I am shooting with a Panasonic AF101, and the extremely shallow depth of field that it gives, is causing my grey hair to turn even greyer. :-) Is there any advice that can be given? Any suggestions for some online material I can scour to find some solutions? Thanks in advance Pierre Devereux