HPX170 goes skiing

[DM_rider]

Short edit of a friend. I was going for a low contrast, flat look. I like what I came up with.

http://www.vimeo.com/3399430

QT, copy and paste
http://blip.tv/file/1823885?filename=Horner218-ChrisMcKeever172.mov (http://a1.video3.blip.tv/0010000226948/Horner218-ChrisMcKeever172.mov)

[seven.b]

I really like what you've done here with the look. Definitely something new as opposed to the saturated norm of ski today's ski films.

I'm going to be filming some local pros up on my local mountain in a couple weeks. Since I'm down at school right now (no snow here), I'm not able to really test out certain settings that are gonna work best for shooting on snow. Would you mind sharing how exactly you exposed your shots in this??? What did you have your master ped at?

Thanks man

[DM_rider]

Nothing special really. I always expose for snow with my zebras at 100. I roll off my iris to the point where I have little to no over exposed area. Snow holds detail up to around 100 ire, anything after tends to just blow out. As far as my scene file, I was shooting cine v, -12 master ped, Matrix Norm1, +2 detail coring, -1 detail, chroma -1, everything else at 0. This scene file has given me the cleanest footage yet. I always have problems with the sky being noisy as hell, but or once, it wasn't to bad. The rest of the look was created in Final Cut.

[seven.b]

Thanks a lot for the help! I just ordered a B+W polarizer to experiment with. I mostly bought it for this summer for filming wakeboarding, but do you ever them those for shooting skiing? I'm hoping to achieve a nice gradient in blue skies on clear days.

I'm really hoping to get similar results as these guys. Take a look at the sky at 1:20. That's what I'm talkin about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1G1rnaWzAw