Sunrise (with new preset)

disjecta

disjecta

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I created a new preset that gives a much more intense response to colors. It's called "VIVIDRGB" and you can find it in the presets thread.

Of course, being morning and all, it's hard to get a sense of daylight colors because there is a unique hue at sunrise.

This is completely untouched raw footage out of the camera. The only thing I did was apply a scope matte to this edited sequence. No levels, no cc.

There is a compression error somewhere in the file. There is some kind of conflict on my computer that never allows me to get glitch free WMVs...I haven't figured it out. If it stops playing for you, just move a couple of frames forward. It played for me.

There is something totally organic about these shots. They have a very film-like texture that I love. There is some noise but I made choices to underexpose to reveal the colors of the sunrise.

Anyway, enjoy:

http://www.pinelakefilms.com/XHA1/sunrise.wmv

Right click and save as
 
steven, please look at your old thread.

the excel link does not work, even if i right click and save as, it opens an excel page with the content being your site saying SORRY.....

or if you can, just paste the settings here. Thanks again.
 
Papa, I just tried it myself and it worked fine. I'm not sure what the problem is. Can you download the CPF and use it? But I would like you to confine your remarks to the preset thread so we don't go OT>
 
just finished watching it, and wow, the colors are so rich. Once again you produced something very breath taking. I caught myself going WOW with my girlfriend as we watched it.

k continuing in the other thread, please follow right behind ;)
 
it seems all HD I play on my mac is stuttery. Is it just a mac thing or HD? But it looks great.
 
Its WMV files playing on the mac that cause some stutter.

Beautiful shots, thanks for sharing.
 
disjecta said:
Papa, I just tried it myself and it worked fine. I'm not sure what the problem is. Can you download the CPF and use it? But I would like you to confine your remarks to the preset thread so we don't go OT>
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I can download and save the CPF -- but not the excel file.

(why not translate the spreadsheet file into text and post in a simple message ?)
 
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Beautiful footage Disjecta. One question, was it just my monitor or was the sun blown out on the ending shots? If it was not - my bad, how did you do that? If it was - how do people control something like that when shooting?

Thanks.
 
Yeah, the sun was blown out. To control that would mean that you would have to stack multiple ND filters in front of the lens and then everything around the sun would be black. You have to make decisions for what you want to show in a shot. The blown out aspect of the sun is something I liked in that shot because it conveyed the intensity.
 
Thanks for the reply. I didn't know what people use to get proper exposure. I think I am going to pick up a graduated ND filter next. I have trouble blowing out the sky when I want to expose for something in the foreground. A little more latitude would help, but 1/3" chips don't help. I am waiting for NAB until I make a decision about my next camera. impressed with the A1 for sure.
 
the last couple closeups of the sun were stunning. did you use a telephoto for that? were you not worried about damaging your camera?
 
Beautiful as always. You have a certain thing with animals. In one shot a close up of a bird flies to the far right of the shot, turns in barely enough time to fly right back through. BTW the preset looks great. I've dialed it in already.




Sun won't damage the camera (in mine and others experiences).
 
kledster said:
the last couple closeups of the sun were stunning. did you use a telephoto for that? were you not worried about damaging your camera?
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It's all a question of being able to take the light intensity level to something reasonable. What I do is apply the in-camera 1/32 ND filter and then increase the shutter speed to something ridiculous like 1/15000. The integrity of the colors at that level are fragile and don't necessarily represent what is being seen but the effect is beautiful. Obviously, I also close down the iris as much as I can.

When all that is in place, the chances or damaging the CCD is probably pretty slim. I'm not shooting for more than about 20-30 seconds at a time. I've done this extensively with my DVX100 over the years also with no problems.

By the way, I zoomed in completely to get that last shot. I didn't use a teleconverter, just the regular lens.

Thanks for all the comments.
 
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