7d/5d reel

Nice work overall.

If I could change anything, I would recalculate the motion tracking on the clip with your name on it. Try using a smaller area to focus the tracker. It's not right as is and makes you look unprofessional as it is.
 
Honestly, all of the shots with people looked pretty bad, but the shots with the food looked absolutely wonderful. The opening credits and the food really was the only professional looking clips, the rest were lit badly, composed badly, and just had very off white balances or color. If this were my reel, I'd scrap everything but the food clips and the opening credit shot (which is really cool), and try to compose a better slideshow. A DP really is the guy who is supposed to be an expert on his camera, and most of your shots look bad simply because of camera error (white balance, overexposure, picture style, ect ect) and if it will be your job to light scenes as well, then the lighting style seen here is not up to stuff. Your green screen lighting style looks very unprofessional (you have to light things based on the environment you'll put them in, you can't just set up a basic photography lighting style and expect it to work.) and overall, again, these are just clips that will not get you business in the professional realm. The cool opening credit may get you a job as an editor more than the cinematography aspects will get you a job for cinematography - I'd at least suggest littering the entire video with cool logos.

However, if this all was pretty much practice sessions, and your target pool of clients isn't a big-name bunch, then this type of reel will at least garner attention say if it was advertised locally. In all though, no one's going to be calling you from halfway around the country because of a reel with clips like the ones here.

P.S. I looked at the 'photo' section of your website, and c'mon now...you really gotta buckle up and put your heart into this career if this is something you want to do for a living.
 
I'll vouch for Ryan, solid guy to have on a job or as a friend. Glad you finally got that car stuff into your reel mate!
 
Snapper123 said:
Honestly, all of the shots with people looked pretty bad, but the shots with the food looked absolutely wonderful. The opening credits and the food really was the only professional looking clips, the rest were lit badly, composed badly, and just had very off white balances or color. If this were my reel, I'd scrap everything but the food clips and the opening credit shot (which is really cool), and try to compose a better slideshow. A DP really is the guy who is supposed to be an expert on his camera, and most of your shots look bad simply because of camera error (white balance, overexposure, picture style, ect ect) and if it will be your job to light scenes as well, then the lighting style seen here is not up to stuff. Your green screen lighting style looks very unprofessional (you have to light things based on the environment you'll put them in, you can't just set up a basic photography lighting style and expect it to work.) and overall, again, these are just clips that will not get you business in the professional realm. The cool opening credit may get you a job as an editor more than the cinematography aspects will get you a job for cinematography - I'd at least suggest littering the entire video with cool logos.

However, if this all was pretty much practice sessions, and your target pool of clients isn't a big-name bunch, then this type of reel will at least garner attention say if it was advertised locally. In all though, no one's going to be calling you from halfway around the country because of a reel with clips like the ones here.

P.S. I looked at the 'photo' section of your website, and c'mon now...you really gotta buckle up and put your heart into this career if this is something you want to do for a living.
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This is the best, honest advice you can get.
 
bronxjragon said:
This is the best, honest advice you can get.
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And I mean that for myself too because I took down all of my stuff when I realized when I sat back and looked at my portfolio that I wouldn't say with conviction, "this is the guy I want working on my next project"
 
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