Steven Digges
April 2nd, 2016, 02:58 PM
There is a chance I may have a gig in a couple weeks shooting in a country western dance club. The main feature of decor in this place is 60" monitors everywhere. They are on the walls, they are suspended in square banks from the ceiling, and they are mounted edge to edge all the way around the rectangular bar just over the bartenders heads. This is a high end club. There is about thirty of these monitors. At night when the place starts to rock they turn the ambient tungsten down so low the monitors become the light source. The room light is at a level just bright enough to keep the place from flickering because of the ever changing monitors. To the naked eye some flicker is there (because I looked for it) but the tungsten fill keeps most of it in check. Needless to say it is a very dark situation to be shooting in.
I don't want to be that guy running around blasting everyone with a camera mounted light, plus I hate that look. I think my lighting skills are pretty decent but I have a lot of questions about this one:
White balance? Even though the monitors are changing at 60 htz are they emitting a constant color temp or is it changing as fast as the image? I am an old school manual white balance guy. But I don't know what progressively scanned LCD TV monitors are putting out?
Speaking of scan rates....I am much better versed in the effects of interlaced monitors being in a shot than I am progressively scanned LCDs. Especially 30 of them on different channels! I will bring myself up to date on that. Is banding and scan rates even an issue? Am I better shooting at 30P or 60P? The monitors are less than two years old. I will check them but for now I am guessing they are set to refresh at 60P.
The extreme low light is going to be tough, especially with the fast motion of dancing. I will be shooting with Sony EA50s. They are only two years old but far from being a king of low light by todays standard of what is out there. I will deal with that. My big concern is the monitors. I do not want them to be ugly blowouts in the background either.
Any input will be appreciated!
Steve
I don't want to be that guy running around blasting everyone with a camera mounted light, plus I hate that look. I think my lighting skills are pretty decent but I have a lot of questions about this one:
White balance? Even though the monitors are changing at 60 htz are they emitting a constant color temp or is it changing as fast as the image? I am an old school manual white balance guy. But I don't know what progressively scanned LCD TV monitors are putting out?
Speaking of scan rates....I am much better versed in the effects of interlaced monitors being in a shot than I am progressively scanned LCDs. Especially 30 of them on different channels! I will bring myself up to date on that. Is banding and scan rates even an issue? Am I better shooting at 30P or 60P? The monitors are less than two years old. I will check them but for now I am guessing they are set to refresh at 60P.
The extreme low light is going to be tough, especially with the fast motion of dancing. I will be shooting with Sony EA50s. They are only two years old but far from being a king of low light by todays standard of what is out there. I will deal with that. My big concern is the monitors. I do not want them to be ugly blowouts in the background either.
Any input will be appreciated!
Steve