The site is in Scotts Valley, our home base by Santa Cruz. We decided to project onto a hill with some exposed sandstone, shrubs and trees on top. This is a rough surface and we could either do a smaller (approx 50 ft diameter) projection just onto the exposed sand or go large with a 100+ ft image, which covers the complete hill site.

We placed our ECO Spot 2500 onto a tripod on the sidewalk. We used a small 1000W generator to power it.

The best lens setup based on distance and desired image size, can be found in our Projection Chart for the ES-2500.  

There is about 430 ft distance to the center of the hill site. We we went with a 19 degree lens for a 100 ft - 130 ft large image.

With a narrow lens, we can achieve four times the distance of this site.

Here we see the area that is beeing illuminated with the 19 degree lens setup.

Can you project into trees? - Yes, but the image looks best when the the viewer watches from the same perspective as the projector is placed. The larger the projection distance, the better.

This perspective illustrates the distance. The image is approx. 90 ft wide.

Between the sign and the image is a distance of 400 ft. Light colors deliver a brilliant image. The distortion on the bottom is caused by trees.

Note the person checking  Alis Belly Button. This is a good visual to show the 120 ft image size.

Various animated effects such as water, fire, moving stars, etc. are possible. These are nice effects for large scale holiday or event projections.

Also here is a person standing in front of the image.