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Posted on 25/01/20 00:14:44 AM

Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House

Steve Caplin wrote:

DavidMac wrote:

Steve Caplin wrote:
I counted six strings and six machine heads!

.... and a very bizarre arrangement of frets .....

Indeed! Twice as many as there should be. I suspect Mariner is not a musician.

No, I can't play any instrument. I was a good singer when I was younger and I love music and often wish I had learned to play the piano, but the wind blew me in other directions.

Posted on 25/01/20 11:52:58 AM

DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House

Steve Caplin wrote to Mariner:
I’m intrigued by the scale, though; is that a huge guitar, or a tiny tree?

I simply saw it as a foreground guitar with a background tree.

But of course I could be wrong ............ (shot by yours truly in late 1980's.)

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Posted on 25/01/20 6:01:50 PM

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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House

DavidMac wrote:

Steve Caplin wrote to Mariner:
I’m intrigued by the scale, though; is that a huge guitar, or a tiny tree?

I simply saw it as a foreground guitar with a background tree.

But of course I could be wrong ............ (shot by yours truly in late 1980's.)

Ha! Did you have to get the bottle actually built?

Posted on 25/01/20 8:57:14 PM

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No! Can't really type now. More tomorrow or Monday.

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Posted on 26/01/20 06:31:09 AM

Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House

Steve wrote
... I’m intrigued by the scale, though; is that a huge guitar, or a tiny tree?

Who knows? You will just have to use your imagination!

Posted on 26/01/20 12:38:27 PM

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Ha! Did you have to get the bottle actually built?

OK back at a proper keyboard now so I can type a proper reply.

When we were bidding for the job, my competitor quoted to build a gigantic bottle. I said I could do it quite easily with the client's own bottle. Not only was this far cheaper but the client liked the idea that we would be using the real product.

The spot was shot in two passes.

1) The bottle standing there in foreground. No man.

2) The bottle is removed to reveal a two metre high chroma blue cylinder placed in the distance so as to coincide with the base of the bottle. The man walks from foreground to the cylinder, bumps into it and then across its front.

The rest is a very simple composite of the two shots.

The real key to this little trick was to shoot somewhere very flat and place the camera in a hole so the lens' centre was at ground level. This removed any vertical parallax between foreground and background and ensured that the bottom of the distant cylinder and the foreground bottle were aligned.

It's actually very simple ..........

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Posted on 26/01/20 1:13:44 PM

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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House

Here's a short excerpt from another spot where I have tricked scale. This time done completely live with no post prod at all.

I love fooling the perceptions!!

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Posted on 27/01/20 2:56:11 PM

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DavidMac wrote:
Here's a short excerpt from another spot where I have tricked scale. This time done completely live with no post prod at all.

I love fooling the perceptions!!

Clever. How did you manage to focus on both the tree and the car?

Posted on 27/01/20 5:27:13 PM

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Clever. How did you manage to focus on both the tree and the car?

I can't remember after all these years what lens I used. Looking at the shot I would guess 18 or 20mm. (Equivalent in angle of a 24 or 30mm on a 35mm still camera). For the old PAL TV resolution focus wasn't nearly as critical as it is now for HD and 4K. A quite large circle of confusion was permissible and so the focus could be covered by depth of field on lenses of this short focal length.

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Posted on 28/01/20 10:27:06 AM

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Thanks Steve . Wow, feels like I should quit while I'm ahead - nowhere to go now - kidding aside Thanks.

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