blog: theatrical lights

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+date: "2022-09-04T00:00:00Z"
+title: Lights! ...
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+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.
+
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+
+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.