Video setup du jour

I still wasn't getting quite enough light in the video setup I wrote about last month, in THIS post.  It was nice, and works, but I think I need photo-flood lights.

It looked like it should be light enough, but still...not quite.

Putting the camera in front of the big French doors helped...you can see the video I just shot on the Artist's Journal Workshop blog, HERE.  I'm still no Spielburg, but we're getting better...

Now all I have to do is remember #1, to turn on the camera, and #2, not to knock the tripod over. 

So far, though, the shed works great for videos, because there's no telephone and not much chance of a noisy interruption.  I don't have a red light on the door!

Video setup

 

So far, this is the best setup for shooting how-to videos I've come up with at the shed (or anyplace else!)  Two lamps, one of them with both incandescent and fluorescent, one shop light, and the little lamp pointed at a sheet  of styrofoam for bounced, indirect light.  It's STILL darker than I'd like, but so far so good.

My ancient tripod helps, but of course getting it located so the camera is sort of over my shoulder so it can catch my hands drawing or whatever is a tad awkward.  Better than the desktop tripod I WAS using, of course!

So far the FlipVideo works best.  As you can see, space is tight--big shock in a 10 x 10 space full of other stuff, eh??

 

And this morning's lovely cold post-blizzard sunrise...we were out there shortly after that, drinking coffee and working!  Yes, the floor is still cold.  Oh well.  By NEXT winter, we'll have that solved, one way or another!

The inside of the shed--video

I recently put up a couple of new videos on YouTube to show the progress with the shed...here's the one of the inside!  It seems to take a while to buffer...sorry!

The inside of the shed--video

Or find it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2vN0BU7y0

Still needing to build the shelves and get the  rest of the overhead storage done, plus lighting for artwork, but doing great!

Video--on the way to the shed

Finally got around to doing a few more videos and thought I'd share one here: 



Or watch it here on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJSyzSPZ64