diff --git a/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0d0db2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +date: "2022-09-04T00:00:00Z" +title: Lights! ... +--- + +The kid has been gearing up to record an audition video for a dance company, +and I've been studying up on how to set up lights, so it looks cool. + +I think I did pretty well, +for about $140 worth of parts. +It's primarily clamp lights, +and some el cheapo colored acrylic from Amazon +that I cut with Amy's CNC cutting machine. +Also some aluminum foil. + +![Lights!](lights.jpg) + +I know now that this is just standard 3-point lighting, +that somebody smarter than me figured out. +Looks pretty good though! +That back light provides a sort of halo, to give depth on the screen. +And the colors against the black fabric (bedsheets) provide texture. + +That's about all I know about lighting so far. + +For sound, we played music through a mixer, +and hard panned both channels to the left side. +The dance pad has a mic inside it, +that we hard-panned to the right. +Hopefully this makes it so the postprocessing can mix feet in with stereo music. + +--- + +I was up until 01:00 porting woozle's stuff over to a more unified login. +You still need three different passwords for various things, +but at least now it feels a little more like a single offering. + +Today I moved my web site (and this blog) off of GitHub, +which provided web hosting for free. +Now it's on my cloud VM, +which is also free (because it's so dinky small), +but should be easy enough to move elsewhere if I need to. + +And with that, I think most of my work is back on stuff I own. + +I tell you what, though, +WebDAV is a lot nicer than I gave it credit for. +I've got my NAS on the public Internet now, +password protected, +and being able to get to my files from anywhere is pretty handy. diff --git a/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/lights.jpg b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/lights.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5462a9 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/blog/2022-09-04-lights/lights.jpg differ