Re: HDRI shoot: grey color sphere question, what kind of gray?

[Francois Lord <francoislord(at)gmail.com>]

That's exactly what happened to me two weeks ago in Toronto. Good thing 
I also had my tripods in my bag. I told them it was used in a special 
photographic technique. They bought it.

Rob Wuijster wrote:
> Only thing is how to bring all this stuff on the plane.
> Bagagecheck: "So... You say you want to do- WHAT- with these 
> spheres???" :-D
>
> Regards,
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> *Rob Wuijster
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> Schoenberger wrote:
> > I got a transparent plastic ball from an arts and crafts materials shop.
> > (Actually it consists of two half-spheres.)
> > Sandpaper the plastic a bit (with a fine one) before you spray it.
> > This is much better than any rough styrofoam surface.
> >
> >
> > Holger Schönberger technical director
> > The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
> >
> >   |> yeah from what I remember, unless treated first, the   |> 
> > aerosol in spray
> >   |> paints will eat away at the styrofoam. Besides a plastic   |> 
> > ball will give
> >   |> you a better surface anyways :-p
> >   |>   |> Greg
> >   |>   |>   |> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 10:53 -0500, Francois Lord wrote:
> >   |> > I didn't try it, but I heard using a "submarine paint"   |> 
> > from a scaled   |> > model shop. Apparently, it's close to 18% gray 
> > and there   |> is virtually no   |> > hilight. Instead of styrofoam, 
> > try to find a big plastic   |> christmas ball.
> >   |> >   |> > Rob Wuijster wrote:
> >   |> > > Hi all,
> >   |> > >
> >   |> > > I have to do a HDRI shoot next week, and have to   |> create 
> > myself a new   |> > > gray "color" sphere again for lighting purposes 
> > (The   |> last one didn't   |> > > survive a friendly 
> > soccermatch.....animators these days....)
> >   |> > > It has to be a neutral gray, but does anyone has   |> 
> > defined colors for   |> > > this, so I can just get a spraycan at the 
> > shop and   |> color a white   |> > > stryrofoam for my shoot.
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