Camera and desk setup for streaming/recording
Added 2017-11-11 07:19:21 +0000 UTCM. C. A Hogarth asked about my camera setup for recording. Here it is in all its jury-rigged glory. ;)
I've been trying around with all sorts of tripods (including a huge one set above my shoulder and little ones that clamp on stuff), but the new camera I got last year simply doesn't have enough battery life to record long sessions. So I got myself a good webcam (logitech), which is fastened to the clamp-on heavy duty daylight lamp above my desk (with a rubber band and sellotape, true to form. Since my younger years, I've been known as Tesafilm Man).
Daylight lamps have been a game-changer for me since about 2010, after painting a wonderfully warm and subtle moonlight scene in artificial light and then in the morning, it was just cold and pale blue.
In the clutter above my desk, by the way, there's everything from Latin/English marking tables to silly cartoons and watercolour paint sheets, haha.
If you're wondering what the painting is lying on - that's another game-changer I only got last week. It's called a book chair. I never knew these existed until I searched for a tiny little drawing board that I could put up on my tiny little workspace and still fit a palette next to it. It allows me to have my canvas at an angle, it's sturdy enough to hold huge watercolour paintings without wobbling, and my palette (and tea mug) still go on the side! (That's a postcard lying on it.)
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Of course! I use paper stretchers from Brown Tree Art. You clamp the paper into them while it's wet, and then it stretches itself tight while drying. I have three of them and I love working with them! They do warp ever so slightly when you work very wet, but then always stretch themselves again flat while drying. You take the paper out and can mat/frame everything immediately. You're right about the book chair - you're clearly better at physics than I am, haha. I realised today that once whatever you put into the book chair is taller than the chair, it all falls over backwards. Silly me. A4 just about works (as I saw with Fëanor but it was slighty wobbly); the new piece is too large. I used the TesaMan solution I always use in such cases (and, upon reflection, could have saved me the book chair too): I rolled up a towel and laid it under the stretcher to have it at a slight angle.
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-15 11:49:01 +0000 UTCOoh, the book stand is such a clever addition! Can I ask how you prepare the paper for painting? You've probably said a million times already (or, alternatively, feel free not to share!), but I specifically mean the clamps - do you clip it to a backboard of some kind? Is it so the paper won't change shape too much during painting and/or curl? I imagine you'd need a solid surface between paper and the book chair, too...
Bobbie Deniker
2017-11-15 11:42:27 +0000 UTCI couldn't live without it! For the setup, the most important thing is rubberband, Without rubberband, everything collapses. ;)
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-13 12:47:24 +0000 UTCVery interesting! I wondered what kind of professional equipment one needs to record such great art process videos, but apparently it doesn't need to be as difficult as I imagined. :-D Anyway, the daylight lamp seems to be a useful thing. :-)
Matěj Čadil
2017-11-13 08:24:58 +0000 UTCDanglemaster! I love that. That's me. XD
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-11 17:03:52 +0000 UTCI don't really have a place set aside for art - it has to share with my marking, too. That's another reason why art is harder when I have stacks of exams to mark. One day, maybe when the kids are grown, I'll have a painting studio under the roof... I can dream!
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-11 17:03:20 +0000 UTCI just wish I had a place set aside for my work...I have to move things from the kitchen table all the time! Your set up looks quite nice :-)
Sommer Sorenson
2017-11-11 17:01:03 +0000 UTCEver the geek. A woman after my own heart. My best friend in high school spoke of, "design by fudgetronics, construction by danglemaster.
Steven Tryon
2017-11-11 16:09:09 +0000 UTCHee, you think they look perfect? I feel slightly better about them now. (And have finally figured out what I did wrong with the resolution settings.)
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-11 15:36:59 +0000 UTCFantastic! Here I was imagining some super-complex rig because your videos are so perfect. I feel a lot less intimidated now. :D
M.C.A. Hogarth
2017-11-11 13:46:20 +0000 UTCIsn't that the cutest thing ever? It also comes with a simply blue cover, but I thought I'd just do the full monty and go for technicolour stripes. XD
Jenny Dolfen
2017-11-11 07:25:51 +0000 UTCOh that is very interesting! The little stand is cool!😍
Sabrina College
2017-11-11 07:24:20 +0000 UTC
