some more HPX500 footage

[xianchi]

Hey everybody!

As some of you know, I have been traveling around the state shooting for the state tourism office to create a B-Roll library for them. The shooting has been pretty much run and gun hitting up to 6 or more locations per day. Lots of driving...

This reel represents about 50 shooting days and I still have about 34 days left.

http://www.seanfrego.com/waLight/HL_FINALweb.mov

Enjoy!



Incase you are wondering...
Fuji XA17x7.6 2X, Miller 25, Solo sticks, Polarizer, simple

[weixiang623]

did you shoot it 60i?

[xianchi]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention.
1080p/30 mostly with some 720pn/30 for the slo-mo stuffs

[film842]

There's some very nice stuff there. Better than I thought the 500 was capable of. How did you set focus...did you use a monitor?

[jcoxshooter]

great footage. what jib are you using. very nice. give some of you settings if you dont mind.

[Seamus McFlannel]

The footage is absolutely gorgeous. Great, great stuff.

[xianchi]

Wow! !!!
Thanks everybody! It's nice to finally get some feedback. I think I should give some credit to my friends, House on a Hill who made the music. http://www.houseonahillband.com

In answer to the questions...
I recently got the panasonic BT-LH80W but it wasn't used on any of the shots in the reel. I had pretty good luck with just the stock EVF and LCD until I did a shoot at the Tacoma Glass Museum. I shot in the hot box there and I think the extreme temps knocked the back focus out of whack? so, everything shot after that was soft. I couldn't tell while shooting in the EVF but when I got home many of the shots the appeared to be in focus where actually quite soft.

The jib? It's my shoulder combined with a tad of Smooth Cam in FCP. It works great for taking the edge off of hand held stuff.

I didn't have much time before the project started, 1 day, and I wanted the footage to be fairly neutral so the settings are pretty basic.

-2 chroma
+2 vert detail
+2 horz detail
-7 master ped
-1 temp

[LuckyStudio 13]

Camera and you produced awesome result !! Your shoulder jib work is great !

[Derrick_SA]

the footage looks awesome, really liked it.

- Derrick

[sonic freak]

Some great images. But I have to disagree, the music was pretty bad in my opinion. They sounded like a garage jam band. Nothing special, your images however, were. That's why it didn't work for me. But really nice stuff. Great shoulder jib too..