The following are stills taken from the footage I captured at the Settlement in late June-02. I would like to express my thanks to everyone at the settlement for working with us, and, in particular, to the three actors who were so willing to do a number of takes from a recent performance so that we could gain experience working with real actors:

• Douglas Harding
• Philip Bell
• Diana Evans

My thoughts thus far are that we probably had the lights a little too bright. Digital cameras have a tendancy to 'white out' when the light reaches a certain threshhold. Through the digital viewer, the image seemed okay, but in actuality it was a little brighter than I had at first thought. The lesson here would be to buy a plug-in monitor to see the real quality of the capture. Unfortunately, this is just too expensive, and is something I can work around in the future. I just must remember to shoot in light that is a few shades darker than how I envisage the exposure.

The first image is actually fine, and is testemant to the quality that can be achieved with great lighting on digital - note how all the telltale signs (including the typical 'flat' image look) associated with digital have been eliminated. The second image suffers the lighting problem on the actors face and hand. The image reveals the same problem, this time on Diana who is sitting at the back of the room.