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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · SCRIM / Gear Questions for shooting whole-room vignettes | |
I mainly shoot furniture (product) and often need to create an upscale living room and dining room scene/vignettes. Until now, I've been shooting with 6 Einsteins and recently added a PCB Link. However, after much agonizing over the subject, I've decided to (eventually) migrate away from the PCB gear, which leads me to my current scenario:
I have a temporary job that will last for at least six-months, and possibly longer, with a remote possibility that it may evolve into something open-ended. I'll need to travel to a partner's location where I'll have partial control over 1 decent-sized room which I will appropriate for my studio. I'll be able to leave a certain amount of gear on-site between shots. I would ordinarily attack this project with a collection of bare-bulbs and soft boxes, but seeing as I'd like to phase out my lighting gear, I don't want to invest any further in Balcar mount gear. Also, I'm not interested in an interim Balcar-to-Bowens adapter type solution as I want to leave my gear options wide open.
My current thinking is to pickup a second set of c-stands and leave them on-site -- in the small (tiny) chance they walk-off, I won't be terribly upset. For lighting the room, I'd like to go with a large scrim or two -- I figure I can gang a couple Einsteins into each scrim to give me a nice broad light style. Never having shot with scrims before, however, I'm uncertain what to buy -- I need something very rugged, and ideally something modular with replaceable parts/fabric if damaged. I've had great experience with Matthews, and my reflexive impulse is to splurge and get their setup. However, I also read good things about the Scrim Jim, but I worry that it's just not heavy duty enough for rough handling (my warehouse guys often help out as ad-hoc grip when needed).
I'd welcome any gear thoughts and/or shooting solutions--I'm not totally married to the idea of a scrim, but I think whatever happens in the future, this setup will give me flexibility, and should be included in my toolset regardless.
** EDIT: Debated whether I should mention this, but figured I might as well as someone may bring this up anyways... an obvious alternative is to buy a handful of large PLMs with front-diffusers -- this would give me a solution that isn't mount-specific per-se except for the 8mm umbrella shaft.
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