If you shoot a monitor, it will "implode" and guaranteed it will blow up to
more than 3 feet high as the CRT has a nearly perfect vacuum inside. Doing
this from a good distance is highly recommended; not doing it at all is
even better. Watch it too closely and it may be the last thing you see.
-- John
(Who didn't thoroughly read this thread, but only scanned it very quickly.)
At 23:26 6/12/01, James Kiker wrote:
Tom wrote:
> (i)t's a little late, but these situations are often better handled by
a
> double exposure so the monitors can be exposed properly - they're
> usually too dim. The monitors are turned off for the environmental
> exposure.
I wanted to try that; however, they were in a huge rush for it, and I
had exactly 6 pieces of film, so I just bracketed the exposures.
Believe it or not, it came out great, except for the green cast from the
fluorescents. Through a loupe, you can see every minute detail of the
work on the monitors. They had the transparency drum-scanned and turned
into ~130MB file, and used PhotoShop to clean it up and balance the
colors. I have seen the small-scale mockup of the the banner in which
it is going, and it looks good. I'm anxious to see the shot after it is
blown up to 3 feet high. Thanks everyone for the earlier advice on this
shot.
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