ART HISTORY - Anamorphic+filters+kickass stuff.

[nickybee]

ok - so there's a whole heap of information on the www.stealart.com website that some of you may have already seen courtesy of other posts - but I recently added some frame grabs. - direct link www.stealart.com/grabs/grabs.html

We wrapped a week ago so editing is not yet complete - I am not showing any clips as yet - however there is a selection of uncorrected, unadjusted stills from the various different locations - interior, exterior, bright, dark, backlit etc...

Take a look if you are interested - I think we have some cool stuff going on here - and I just wanted to share it.

(the photos are under the PLAY section of the site - there are behind the scenes photos as well as stills from the actual footage)

nick

p.s. for the geeky minded - since we shot with an ana adapter - these stills are straight from Vegas 4.0 timeline with full quality and "target device aspect ratio" in a 1.212 project - i.e. Vegas expanded them to that exact pixel size - not me.

(oh and as to the shotgun rig demos - coming soon I promise)

[ClaytonF]

Hi Nick,

Thank you for sharing. It looks like you've ended up with some very nice material - I especially like the light in 'alex explains'.

I was wondering though why all of the blacks were recorded so high? I am viewing the images on a Mac (higher viewing gamma than a PC) but the blacks still seems very milky and noisy in some shots. Is Vegas adjusting this in any way or was this for effect?

I figured it might be for a lower contrast look, but it seems like pushing it this far in camera would limit your latitude significantly. Just curious... Otherwise the lighting and composition in many of the shots is great. I look forward to seeing the final product.

Best of luck with the edit,
Clayton

[ViewVideo]

Nice, it is great to see DP's still using Filters instead of relying on post to change colors.

One thing that concerns me as stated above is in some clips your blacks look like my black Grateful Dead T-shirt from the 70's; not very black.

I don't know how much you digged in the camera settings, but it really would of helped if you played with the Master Ped settings in some of those dark scenes. I dont know how much you can squish that in post without loosing quality.

Nice looking actors by the way.

[nickybee]

some good points...
interestingly we had a calibrated studio monitor on set and we were going by that...
I looked at the footage at end of day 1 on the computer and it looked a little greyed out like you guys pointed out...

but we decided to trust the sony monitors we had...

it remains to be seen how this stuff gets crushed...

nick

[Zoomforce]

the grabs are a little hard to find in there, here is the direct link :

http://www.stealart.com/grabs/grabs.html