B/W Footage

disjecta

disjecta

Lucky Duck
Here's a little ditty shot with the XHA1 set to the B/W preset and the Letus Extreme...all shot using a Nikon 55mm f2.8 macro lens. Movement was achieved using an IndiSlider...

No particular purpose to this other than I'm getting really interested in black and white and I was bored :)

http://www.pinelakefilms.com/aftertherain.html
 
Cooooooooooooooooool. Thanks for sharing man.
P.S. - What was going on in that shot of the receding water?
 
Funny, a few people have asked about that. Basically it's the bottom part of a flower pot that was filled to the brim with rain. I had the camera pretty close to it but focused on the reflection of the distant trees rather than the water or the pot itself. I was also moving the camera at the same time....so it's deliberately abstract.
 
Steven,

Great footage!

What is your impression of the indislider? I think Phil Bloom used one and was mixed on it. Sure a good price point for it though.

cheno
 
Hi Steven. As always, I wish I could download your footage so I can re-watch it without having to let it load each time. Very nice :) The 55 Micro Nikkor is quite a blessing to have (go us).

Just to be a bit picky as I too am interested in the cost effective indiSlider:
At such macro distances, like very long lenses, shake can be a 'consequence'. In some of your shots was this caused by the indislider alone, or by panning/tilting whilst sliding?
I'm curious as to how solid and smooth the sliders movement really is, and figure this type of photography is a plausable measurement.

Also, what do you compose with? Very effective soundtrack.
 
very nice steven. I used black and white for my last short (Dungeness) and loved it!

interested to see you liked the indislider. i had problems getting smooth movement on it
 
loved the footage, very clean and beautiful. I liked the abstract qualities and the music suited the footage very well. Keep posting stuff like this!
 
Thanks guys.

You really need to work with the Indislider to get results. The head does not sit totally secure on it so there's a little give here and there. I also wish the tripod head could pan left and right but there are bolts in the way so it's not really possible.

Other impediments for this little film included using legs that were broken so I had to use the really skinny extensions to raise it. This caused shaking every time I even touched the camera so for macro shots, you can imagine how difficult this was.

As much as I hear complaints about the IndiSlider from others, and I have my own woes (just mentioned), the fact is that I wouldn't be producing stuff like this and adding it as a tool in actual paying gigs so, for me at least, it is worth the extra bit of work to get these subtle movements in my work.
 
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