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red mirror that would seem to bleed red into in the next hour, two hours, and so on. Third,
the rest of the image. this enabled me to quickly identify where the
"blackest black and whitest white" would be
This is the logic I used to address these prob- over the next several hours.
lems: Why was this important? First and fore-
most, it helped me understand where to find
ò First, I started by focusing on the win- the best places for my lights - not just for one
dows as I walked around the room. I stud- sequence of images but for the whole after-
ied the angle, direction and intensity of light noon.
coming through each window. Next, I got
down on one knee in front of the windows ñ Next, I analyzed the physical structure
and looked closely to see where the light was of the room so that (a) I would know how light
reflecting through out the room. This told me would move around the room, and (b) I would
many things. The first was which surfaces be able to use the architectural detail of the
were likely to be reflective when the light from room to shape the paths of the light from the
the strobes hit those same surfaces, and the moonlights. (This is something I always do
second was that doing this allowed me to en- when working inside a room. It allows me to
vision where the light from the sun would be maximize my use of light and it enables me to

FIgure 3:

these diagram shows the placement of the moonlights.

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