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Q-spheres HDRi


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(above) Quicktime output of Q-sphere of Team Q-spheres at Lake Mead, NV, December 2007 (c) 2007-2009 Q-spheres.com


Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo


R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us is now a qualified provider of Q-spheres HDRi 3d digital imaging services.

In association with LocationExchange, Locamundo, and Team Q-spheres qualified associates worldwide, we aim to build on our collective traditional location scouting and location management services skills and location archive assets and resources, going forward to provide an even greater range of services to not only keep pace with, but rather lead the way in rapidly changing digital imaging technologies for the still photography, motion pictures and 3-d gaming and animation industries.

Our current digital imaging system, developed by Locamundo founder Jo VanHove (Brussels, BE), provides the fastest currently-available methods for generating the highest-quality, full-dynamic-range, 3d, image-based lighting models (lightfields) and HDRi backgrounds. Our worldwide team of expert imaging and production professionals strives to keep abreast of and implement as we might find productive, new developments and available methods - adapting our imaging technologies to provide the highest-standard services and products with regard to not only imaging quality, but with considerations toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well.

Q-spheres can be hired to provide assignment-specific imaging and also maintains an archive of rights-managed post-ready high quality backgrounds and lightfields.

Please contact us for your next imaging project and let us show you how Q-spheres can work for you!

Q-spheres Official Press Release, July 2007 (pdf)

Q-spheres Associates Worldwide (Alphabetically, by company or last name):

  1. Meuleman Manu (brauhaus.be / Antwerp, BE)
  2. Thomas Duchnicki (creativelocation.de / Berlin, DE)
  3. Rickard Molin (fixmolin.se / Stockholm, SE)
  4. John Cody, Dan Uneken (fotofilmvideo.com / Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
  5. Francoise Huvelle (Q-spheres.com / Buenos Aires, AR)
  6. Scott Clark (iwerken.com / Albuquerque, NM, USA)
  7. Jo VanHove (loc8, locamundo.com, locationexchange.com / Brussels, BE)
  8. Locations Portugal (locationsportugal.com / Lisbon, PT)
  9. Peter Orth (planetorth.com / Los Angeles, CA, USA)
  10. R. Richard Hobbs (rrhobbs.us / New York, NY, USA)
  11. Francesca Carapelli, Leonardo Semplici, Stefano Tinti (scout.it / Siena, Italy)
  12. Mark McMcKennon (scoutman.com / New York, NY, USA)
  13. Frans VanDenBemd (vandenbemd.com / Prinsenbeek (Breda), NL)
  14. Clare Beresford (worldlocations.com / Paris, FR)

In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.

Team Q-spheres USA
(above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

Team Q-spheres Training Session - Lake Mead NV

Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members

View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr

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    Excellent Article About Filmmaking in New Jersey

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    Entertainment Law In New Jersey: A Century Of Supporting The Motion Picture Industry

    The article is a couple of years old at this point (how did I miss this?) and takes a bit of a “lawyerly” tack at times, but New Jersey Film Office Staff Member Steven Gorelick gives a star performance as interviewee espousing the history of and importance of filmaking to our culture and economy in New Jersey.

    “Editor: How is the New Jersey Film Commission helping independent filmmakers get their start?

    Gorelick: You’d be surprised how many films at Sundance are from New Jersey. Garden State was a hit this year at Sundance. Clerks and Kevin Smith’s other works have also been well received. Two Family House , which won at Sundance, was filmed in Bayonne and many other films in the competition were shot here. It’s amazing the percentage of Sundance winners and Sundance entrants that are made in New Jersey. The Station Agent won two years ago.”

    …read more…

    note: above quote snippet taken from interview conducted and published in 2004

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    New York State Filming / TV Incentives Kick In: Commercials Up Next?

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    Shoot Magazine (print edition) | or Seeking Deja Vu: N.Y. Looks To Fuel Spot Business (subscription required) | Commercial-making Incentives Hope To Mirror Success of N.Y. Feature Film / Television Program Tax Credits | By Robert Goldrich

    “February 23, 2007 — For Alan Suna, co-owner of Long Island City-headquartered Silvercup Studios, a New York stage facility mainstay, the success of the TV series pilot filming season bodes well for spot production in the Big Apple. Just as the upsurge in film and TV lensing, including pilots, has increased dramatically since New York’s feature/TV tax credits…”

    Tax incentive legislation enacted in New York at the state level beginning 2004-2005 has increased feature film and tv production significantly, but initially, somehow, the tv spot end of the industry was left out.

    All that is about to change, thanks to new tax incentives that include commercial production as well.

    On a local level, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast’s (MOFTB) “Made in New York” program, which includes tax incentives, a concierge service as well as additional vendor discounts and other perks has increased film production volume dramatically over the past two years, attracting $2.4 billion in new production business including a record number of tv pilots. Like the state’s original program, the city’s current tax incentives only include films and tv shows, however, the Mayor’s Office and New York City Council are presently considering a companion program to New York State’s new program that includes commercial production.

    For all of us in the film production business, including location scouts and location managers, ANY program, especially a tax incentive program that, according to figures per current programs in place quoted in the Shoot Online article generates $1.34 in increased overall income per $1.00 in tax incentives and generates new, increased business= a good thing! The overall local economy benefits as well, as film production relies on a myriad of local vendors not neccesarily always linked directly just to film production, including many areas of the hotel and hospitality industries and as “everyday” as hardware/building supplies, car services, dry cleaning and general retail to name just a few.

    Specifically regarding film location services, local property owners and the real estate industry benefit and in the case of studio filming there are benefits as additional studio space is leased to accommodate increased filming. The aforementioned Shoot article also quotes SilverCup Studios (Long Island City, NY) co-owner Alan Suna reporting that business volume has been sufficent enough for Silvercup to open SilverCup East and plans are in the works to open SilverCup west on the east bank of the East River in Long Island City. SilverCup is one the the New York City area’s largest film studio/sound stage businesses, regularly hosting studio shoots for many major motion pictures, television programs and commercials.

    Complete list of U.S. State’s film industry tax incentive programs (January 2007)

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    New Film Commission Director and Filmmaking Tax Incentives in CT

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    Shoot Online | Meet The Commish | Filming Incentive Program Takes Hold In Connecticut | By Robert Goldrich

    “July 21, 2006 — Heidi Hamilton became Connecticut’s Film Division Director last December, after having worked under the previous director. She brings to her position a broad-based background in law and filmmaking.”

    …read more…

    CT Film | Connecticut Digital Media & Motion Picture Tax Credit

    “What happens when you combine majestic shorelines, quiet meadows, old world architecture, bucolic town greens, mill town grunge, skilled crew base and 30% tax credits?”

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    CT Film | Welcome Message from Film Division Director Heidi Hamilton

    “…In the closing days of the 2006 session, the General Assembly established tax credits for the production of digital media and motion pictures in Connecticut and renamed the division the Digital Media and Motion Picture Division (effective October 1, 2006). In an effort to encourage increased economic activity in the state and job growth, the legislation calls for a tax credit equal to 30% for qualified digital media and motion picture production, preproduction, postproduction and distribution expenses incurred in the state that exceed $50,000. The production tax credit is among the most aggressive programs in the country and will be administered by the Film Division. On our website you will find detailed information including a pre-application and instructions. Check frequently for updated program information.”

    …read more…

    Connecticut In-State Production Tax Incentive info links:

  • Details
  • Pre-Application, Instructions, and Required Additional Forms
  • Statutes

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    About Film Permits

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    About Filming Permits | Information for Production and Property Owners:

  • Many towns and municipalities in the New York City area, especially those close to Manhattan such as Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex Counties in New Jersey; Westchester, Rockland and Orange Counties, NY; Nassau County, Long Island, NY and the Stamford, CT area, to New York City (which as been a major filming hub for many years) have filming permit requirements.

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  • Many New York City area productions are crewed with members of various guilds and unions that have established their own “film zones“, or, generally speaking, areas in which they will work as locals. Depending on the union or guild in question generally the New York City “film zone” (or “The Zone”) is a radius of 25-30 miles emanating from Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Non-union productions often use “The Zone” as a point of reference for travel and logistics as well.

    Towns and municipalities in “The Zone” are more likely to have formal permit requirements and there may be fees involved. Towns and municipalities outside “The zone” may have permit requirements as well, however requirements tend to relax as distance from New York City increases and population density decreases.

    There are exclusive communities that do not allow filming at all, however this is the exception.

    The point being made is that property owners and production alike should check with local government as to whether a property (whether it be municipally-owned or privately owned) under consideration as a filming location is subject to film permit requirements.

    Property owners and production alike should understand and should be prepared to comply with any local filming or photography permit requirements as they may exist. Not only is it the right thing to do, but when you think about it it be could darn expensive to reshoot after being shut down for not having a permit!

    The city clerk’s office or police department are good starting points for getting information regarding local film permit requirements.

    Often a film permit will include require production to provide a certificate of insurance showing the municipality third-party additionally insured.

    Sometimes “leafleting” or advising neighbors in writing of an intended shoot is a permit requirement.

    Many permit requirements revolve around issues of impact on the community with regard to traffic congestion and safety, noise, and “general commotion”. Even a small photo crew, under certain circumstances, let alone a large production with a large crew, many vehicles and a lot of equipment can be potentially be very disruptive to neighbors or the area at-large.

    Permit requirements very widely from town to town and can require as little effort as notifying the local police department or sending the town a letter of intent to multiple forms to multiple local government offices / agencies and fees of over $1000 per day.

    Even if there is no formal permit required is usually advisable to contact the local government and police department, especially if a shoot is to take place on public property or has any potential whatsoever of being disruptive in any way.

    • Helpful links:

  • NJ Film Office
  • NYS Governors Office of Motion Picture and Television Development
  • The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting
  • Nassau County, Long Island, NY Film Office and The Long Island Film & TV Foundation
  • Suffolk County, Long Island, NY Film Office
  • Westchester County, NY Film Office
  • Connecticut Film Office
  • Pennsylvania Film Office
  • Philadelphia Film Office
  • Association of Film Commissions International

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