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> > > > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video display
> > > > industry and it occurred to me that there may be applications for
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> trouble is, few portrait wedding photogs have slides anymore. I used to
> have stacks of transproofs but that disappeared.
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Digital is main stream for our screens. Images scanned to digital as JPEG
or TIFF files have quite an impact when projected on 40"W X 72"H screens.
especially when they are rear projection and can be viewed from both
sides (reversed image considered). Screens that size weigh less than
3 pounds each and can be hung directly from a T-grid Ceiling.
I was thinking more of a themed photo show where six screens where
ceiling hung in a walk through gallery along with the photo originals on
display.
I can project three vertical screens from one projector, or two horizontal
144"W X 40"H Panoramic shots, or even combinations of both. Two good
projectors can make a very impressive display. . . .
Jackman Media(tm) http://www.jacktech.net
zeitgeist - 12 Nov 2004 03:36 GMT
> > > > > I make custom front and rear projection screens for the video
> display
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> Jackman Media(tm) http://www.jacktech.net
Even though I sport a goatee and dress in black from hat down to my shoes, I
don't hang out nor think like an artist in black...so all this way beyond
me.
though at the rate shopping malls are being abandoned there should be enough
space for such a project.
IIRC the premise of the post was, any market for the product of rear
projection. The kind of people who install such exhibits in galleries and
warehouses I would guess tend to be the DIY'rs. Artists in black tend to
not have a large budget, at least AFAIK, perhaps I don't get invited to
those cool parties anymore. So at worst you will spend time giving a cool
idea to some other guy to impress the other artists in black, at best you
might sell a package to one with a trust fund.
One cool effect I saw as portrait images projected onto a screen in a frame,
there were 4 projectors, 2 dissolving the portrait images, and two with
frame images, that really held your attention, which I suppose its supposed
to do.
It does seem that every town has a couple photographers with street facing
store fronts with picture windows. At night they don't do much, cars
driving by don't see individual prints even if they make something larger
than a 16x20, and any marketing class will let you know that if the print
isn't changed almost daily people will stop seeing it, change it daily, at
least a dozen in rotation, people will notice it. So having a projection,
and rear screen would actually be much better in this case as you can put
the screen IN the window and project to large wall size. That, IMHO, is a
potential market.
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