So a DP from out of town asked me to construct a 4' by 6' clear plastic sheet with a wooden frame and with ND 1.2 on it. The idea was to place this large piece of plastic behind an interview subject and to catch up four stops to the city scape background. We were on a open air patio with no windows to affix ND to. Long story short, you would need to be in a HVAC dust free room to affix ND to a static cling crazy piece of plastic 4' x 6'. It didn't work because we could get a clean application to the plastic that didn't cause a mosaic of focus through the plastic. I have no problem applying to glass windows but this just wouldn't work on the plastic.
My question is how do people do this? Is there a product or technique that can get you 4 stops of reduction of the background exposure, without lossing deep depth of field?
Yes we had a 1200 HMI and hit the subject pretty hard without a chimera, through a diffusion frame, and achieved a suitable image. But the DP wanted a good wide shot of the cityscape and we didn't have time to Green screen the subject.
So any thoughts?
Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
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