Can someone help me with projection photography?

[bekmeb]

Hello, I'm doing an assignment for college and I wanted to project a striped and then a lace pattern over my subject. I used a projector and it worked but every time I captured the image it was far too dark to even be fixed by photoshop. This may sound a little stupid but how can I solve this?

 

[480sparky68 67]

Post an example of your results.

 

[bekmeb]

I think I've attached it but yeah it was really dark you can barely distinguish anything.

 

[bekmeb]

Sorry I can't get it to upload but it was basically underexposed and too dark, you couldn't see anything. I used actual lace and strips of paper on a projector. Should I have had transparent paper and held it over the key light instead?

 

[Josh66]

How are you metering?

 

[480sparky68 67]

Click here to learn how to post images.

Post one anyway... you'd be surprised what some folks here can 'read' in a photo.

 

[Buckster]

Exposure triangle.

Shoot at a wider aperture.
Or... Shoot at a longer shutter speed.
Or... Shoot at a higher ISO.
Or... A combination of the above.

 

[Big Mike]

Exposure triangle.

Shoot at a wider aperture.
Or... Shoot at a longer shutter speed.
Or... Shoot at a higher ISO.
Or... A combination of the above.

There it is. If your photos are too dark, it's not a lighting problem, it's an exposure problem.

 

[skieur]

Hello, I'm doing an assignment for college and I wanted to project a striped and then a lace pattern over my subject. I used a projector and it worked but every time I captured the image it was far too dark to even be fixed by photoshop. This may sound a little stupid but how can I solve this?

Your projector could be the problem. What are you using?

skieur

 

[bekmeb]

Exposure triangle.

Shoot at a wider aperture.
Or... Shoot at a longer shutter speed.
Or... Shoot at a higher ISO.
Or... A combination of the above.

Thank-you very much I'll try that and I was just using a basic projector, I lay the lace/strips on the glass and it reflected onto the wall. Nothing special.

 

[Tiberius47]

Get a piece of lace and hang it a few feet in front of an off camera flash.

 

[skieur]

Exposure triangle.

Shoot at a wider aperture.
Or... Shoot at a longer shutter speed.
Or... Shoot at a higher ISO.
Or... A combination of the above.

Thank-you very much I'll try that and I was just using a basic projector, I lay the lace/strips on the glass and it reflected onto the wall. Nothing special.

If you were using an overhead projector, it should have been reflected on a screen for greater brightness and then lights for overhead projectors also vary in strength and wattage. Some would be pretty weak.

skieur