1 day 3 girls 3 Nikons 60.000 photos 1 music video

Great! Can I ask you why you choose to do it with stills? I guess it was to your benefit when the darkness came. What I liked about the video was that I didn't got bored, couse you changed location and stuff happening all the time.

But I do have to say I'm not a big fan of the fast shooting stillphoto technique, but that's just personal taste.

Oh btw, it's doesn't look like there has been alot of grading on this vid? (I'm a huge fan of your other video, diablo dimes:))
 
If you just shot 60,000 stills you've just about taken half the life out of your shutter depending on which model of camera you've got. They are generally only pegged for between 120-150,000 shuttter actuations.
 
Rikki said:
If you just shot 60,000 stills you've just about taken half the life out of your shutter depending on which model of camera you've got. They are generally only pegged for between 120-150,000 shuttter actuations.
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3 Nikons... so maybe 20,000 stills per Nikon ?
and 3 Nikons... so money doesnt seem to be a matter :grin:
 
You're just telling me now that I've only got 100k shutter actuations! Damn!! Oh well.. :) They shouldn't make such nice cameras then, I just want to keep pressing the shutter! But all in all, the amount of stills we shot, only translated in a bit less than 2 hours of footage. Just about right for a 4 1/2 minute song.

We actually shot on 2 D90's, and one D3. We shot stills cause I was looking for a sharp image that holds up at night (most shots were just available light). Nowadays you can shoot high ISO's and barely get any noise. Decided to go for an untreated natural snap shot type of look, and keep it all as is. You can't replicate the discrepancies between the different cameras and shooters.
Glad you like it!
 
you know what...after watching the original music vid for this track....

YOU ROCKED IT!!! Your film has so much more energy and is more fun to watch than the official music vid!! It accompanies the track beautifully. I can't even watch the official vid anymore.

your vid is perfect for this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEz8N8AT-yo


Thanks for posting this.
 
Apart the shutter life damages -- it reminds me those girl's shoulders and arms' tatoos but that's just personal taste *LOL* too, the option goes very well (tatoos included, on video ;-) above the line. There's no jello, anyway. :laugh:

Emanuel :-)
 
I checked my shutter counts to see what 100,000 clicks would really compare to. My wife and I use our gear more than twice a week on a regular basis. I thought our counts were going to be much higher then they actually were. I would say that the average person will never use their DSLR to the max of what the manufacture says the shutter can handle. In any case I was surprised at how low they were based on how often we shoot.

My Nikon D2X = 121487
My D90 = 43220

They've takin' some lickin's and keep on clickin'
 
erik_ande_85 said:
Great! Can I ask you why you choose to do it with stills? I guess it was to your benefit when the darkness came. What I liked about the video was that I didn't got bored, couse you changed location and stuff happening all the time.

But I do have to say I'm not a big fan of the fast shooting stillphoto technique, but that's just personal taste.

Oh btw, it's doesn't look like there has been alot of grading on this vid? (I'm a huge fan of your other video, diablo dimes:))
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We were going for that "Do It Yourself" vibe. Shooting stills over video gave us more range when capturing in low available light situations at night. Gotta love the high ISO capabilities from the new Digi Cams.
 
Really excellent job.

Aside from the technical aspects of it. When its watched from a viewpoint of someone who wouldnt be well up on things tecnically, im sure it would go down an absolute treat, as it does with us.

Theres a really nice feel to it. The actors, the song, the streets, the atmosphere.

were cameras set to maximum fps all the time?
 
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grifter09 said:
Really excellent job.

Aside from the technical aspects of it. When its watched from a viewpoint of someone who wouldnt be well up on things tecnically, im sure it would go down an absolute treat, as it does with us.

Theres a really nice feel to it. The actors, the song, the streets, the atmosphere.

were cameras set to maximum fps all the time?
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Yes both D90's and the D3 were set to the max FPS bursts possible.
 
Great music clip!

The high quality makes me want a stills camera that continuously shoots 24 fine JPEGs per second (without mechanical shutter) even harder. The question is when will this be? 2010, 2011 ...
 
great work. those girls' cheeky grins are infectious, I like the part with the short guitar solo and the long exposures going through traffic & the moving shots - rhythm of the images had me in a trance but that could have something to do with muscle relaxants. :)
 
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pveal said:
great work. those girls' cheeky grins are infectious, I like the part with the short guitar solo and the long exposures going through traffic & the moving shots - rhythm of the images had me in a trance but that could have something to do with muscle relaxants. :)
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thanks! don't worry, while I was editing, I got hypnotized as well.
 
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