Tigers on the Big Screen
Tigers on the Big Screen
I was looking for an artistic way to capture the great environment in “The Bunker”, where we often watch sports on our 3 TV setup. I wanted to show the Mizzou Tigers on the big projection screen in the middle and also on the 2 side 42” TVs. The final image is actually a composite of 4 photographs. I didn’t want to take a photograph of an actual TV image because the sports game images are protected and I didn’t want to infringe on that. So the first photograph, which is simulated on each of the 3 TVs, is one that I took at a Mizzou Football game at The Zou in Columbia, Missouri, back in October of 2012. It was taken with my small Sony T100 pocket camera. I copied the image to DVD and displayed it on the big screen with our DVD player and projector. While it was displayed I took the “primary” or base photograph. I wanted to do it this way so I could get realistic reflections on the coffee table. This primary photograph was taken with a tripod mounted Sony A850 at 18mm using ISO 100 at f/22 for 15 seconds. Two Sony HVL-F58AM off camera flashes with ¼ CTO gels were set on either side of the camera at full power and zoom of 24mm. The flashes were set for rear sync and were triggered wirelessly with Pocket Wizards. Photograph 3 and 4 were images of the models, and were taken using the same tripod mounted A850 at 18mm using ISO 100 at f/22 for 1/200 second, and the same 2 flashes. In addition a 3rd flash, also equipped with ¼ CTO gel and Lumiquest III soft box was used as a backlight behind the models to provide lighting that would simulate lighting from the projector screen. The “TV image” and the 2 models were inserted on the primary image using photoshop, along with appropriate shadowing for the 2 models on the coffee table.
Tigers on the Big Screen
Tigers on the Big Screen
I was looking for an artistic way to capture the great environment in “The Bunker”, where we often watch sports on our 3 TV setup. I wanted to show the Mizzou Tigers on the big projection screen in the middle and also on the 2 side 42” TVs. The final image is actually a composite of 4 photographs. I didn’t want to take a photograph of an actual TV image because the sports game images are protected and I didn’t want to infringe on that. So the first photograph, which is simulated on each of the 3 TVs, is one that I took at a Mizzou Football game at The Zou in Columbia, Missouri, back in October of 2012. It was taken with my small Sony T100 pocket camera. I copied the image to DVD and displayed it on the big screen with our DVD player and projector. While it was displayed I took the “primary” or base photograph. I wanted to do it this way so I could get realistic reflections on the coffee table. This primary photograph was taken with a tripod mounted Sony A850 at 18mm using ISO 100 at f/22 for 15 seconds. Two Sony HVL-F58AM off camera flashes with ¼ CTO gels were set on either side of the camera at full power and zoom of 24mm. The flashes were set for rear sync and were triggered wirelessly with Pocket Wizards. Photograph 3 and 4 were images of the models, and were taken using the same tripod mounted A850 at 18mm using ISO 100 at f/22 for 1/200 second, and the same 2 flashes. In addition a 3rd flash, also equipped with ¼ CTO gel and Lumiquest III soft box was used as a backlight behind the models to provide lighting that would simulate lighting from the projector screen. The “TV image” and the 2 models were inserted on the primary image using photoshop, along with appropriate shadowing for the 2 models on the coffee table.