7D Wedding highlight by Stillmotion
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Loic
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I find it tricky how a guy would have two pre production cameras and go shoot a wedding vid. These cameras are sent around the world to make marking and buzz around the 7D. But two cams? I think the whole shoot was planted by canon with there with the best production crews. Think about it, the guy crys like ten times in the movie. It just seems to phoney to me. Id rather see Perya (Town Fair) - a Canon 7D Short a thousand times then think this vid is genuine.
Michael Olsen
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stillmotion.ca is a well established and, at least in my opinion, very skilled group of wedding filmmakers and photographers who make quite a lot of use of the 5d. this video is definitely on par with their other work.
I see no reason to believe that they were in any way "planted" by Canon. On the upside, I guess it is sort of a weird compliment if people start saying "it can't be done".
Weddings is what these guys do and in my opinion, they do it better than anyone else out there. They've mentioned plenty of times that they are sponsored by Canon, it's not unusual, a lot of photographers out there are sponsored by them, they just happen to do both photography and video. Which is why I'm not surprised they got 2 pre-prod models.
At the end it says that the "Standard" picture mode was used. "Neutral" or "Faithful" (with contrast dialed down) usually yields flatter images.
Kevin Dorsey
Veteran
I always wondered how Stillmotion created such beautiful wedding films. It turns out they were all fakes.
Thanks for cracking the case.
Loic
Active member
I think Loic is a Nikon plant. If he tries to deny it, just assume he's trying to deceive everyone.
Ok , you found my cover. Damn! In fact me and my D90 buddys are preparing a jello hit! Behold the new epic movie where everyone in the theater cant handle 10 min of jello footage and starts barfing on the walls! :zombie_smiley:Or is it my 5D mark ii buddys? He he, 7D and GH1 all the way !:thumbup:
Luis Caffesse
Admin
Wow.
Possibly the best wedding highlight piece I've ever seen.
Forget the camera - the composition, the editing, the pacing was spot on.
Fantastic work here regardless of the tech.
That's what I love to see.
:thumbsup:
Possibly the best wedding highlight piece I've ever seen.
Forget the camera - the composition, the editing, the pacing was spot on.
Fantastic work here regardless of the tech.
That's what I love to see.
:thumbsup:
slimjimmed
Well-known member
The thing that makes me wonder is the 2 cameras and 1 cinematographer, when there are no wide shots in the highlight video for the unmanned camera(during the ceremony).
Maybe all of the highlights were taken from the manned camera?
As someone who used to wedding videos, I wouldn't be able to use 2 7ds, cause of the 12 minute recording limit. It would be to impractical with an unmanned camera needing to be engaged every 12 minutes.
Okay, my wedding flashbacks are over....it's hard to turn off that part of my brain which has been traumatized by 2 camera/1 person weddings.
Maybe all of the highlights were taken from the manned camera?
As someone who used to wedding videos, I wouldn't be able to use 2 7ds, cause of the 12 minute recording limit. It would be to impractical with an unmanned camera needing to be engaged every 12 minutes.
Okay, my wedding flashbacks are over....it's hard to turn off that part of my brain which has been traumatized by 2 camera/1 person weddings.
Kegan
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Absolutely incredible work. Stillmotion really does blow away the competition with regards to the wedding market and are really good filmmakers overall. Glad to see the 7D served them as well as it did. Definitely not only the camera in this case...but certainly nice to see it hold up.
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John Caballero
Veteran
You see, this wonderful piece was done by professionals that know how to get the best from their equipment. If this looks so amazing in Vimeo I can only imaging how it looks projected. I don't understand how some people here are surprised when top of the line pros get to test new gear first. It is the way is done with everything that comes out the production line. From high performance athletic shoes to cameras. I can clearly see the point of Canon lending this guys two cameras to prove the point that a second camera would be an excellent addition for a more dynamic production. That way Canon would sell even more cameras. Brilliant marketing of course. And again a beautiful piece of filming.
jls4
Veteran
Wow - I actually thought it looked good. Heck just to see a little of the sky and the faces at the same time is amazing.
My first real project was on a DVX and talk about little to no dynamic range. The V1U worked a little better and at least I had HD, but even it has limitations. Now this $1700 camera looks better than both of my old cams and it's in an "untweaked mode" ? I find that awesome. LOL
NoxNoctus
Well-known member
:grin:
I love Stillmotion. It's always something for me to look up to, even if you don't like weddings. They seem to have a genuine joy for doing what they do
Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
Storytelling is storytelling, and that was a piece that was well told.