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Todd Wannabe
My mom gets really annoyed with how I shoot... I shoot stills to look like it was from a film.
Cinematic Photography
- Thread starter Andrew Brinkhaus
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dvxhutch
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Great thread, Andrew, and I look forward to more pics.
But why use DSLRs just for practice? I often use digital pics of static objects such as bulidings, etc., for use in wide shots. I add some moving cloud footage in AFTER EFFECTS or MOTION, color correct them together, and it looks great. The DVX and HVX look terrific in close up and pretty good in medium, but really fall away in wide - especially the DVX. But by incorporating DSLR pics into your wide shots, you have the DR, as you said, closer to the high end HD cams.
P.S. What camera are you using?
But why use DSLRs just for practice? I often use digital pics of static objects such as bulidings, etc., for use in wide shots. I add some moving cloud footage in AFTER EFFECTS or MOTION, color correct them together, and it looks great. The DVX and HVX look terrific in close up and pretty good in medium, but really fall away in wide - especially the DVX. But by incorporating DSLR pics into your wide shots, you have the DR, as you said, closer to the high end HD cams.
P.S. What camera are you using?
dantewaters
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yea I'd post as well... If fact I have one now...
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RyanT
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Andrew...maybe try a far side key and go from the other side with the light. Subtle difference, but could look a bit prettier, especially on the first one.
I think the most important thing though is horizontals only! As awesome as verticals are, they aren't exactly the most cinematic (sorry dantewaters
)I'd really love to give this a shot though. Seems like fun.
Adam Gonzalez
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I think the most important thing though is horizontals only! As awesome as verticals are, they aren't exactly the most cinematic (sorry dantewaters
Agreed!
Andrew Brinkhaus
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Updated.
Andrew Brinkhaus
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Just so everyone knows, I am updating the first post with new images that way people don't have to search through several pages to find things.
Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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Andrew, I like the new updates! The one with the kid in the doorway, looks really good! Really like that eyelight! What did you use?
The one of the young man looking back in a car, looks good... but without knowing the motivated light, that really cold blue/silver far side key looks a little distracting. I find myself wondering what on earth would project light like that. Ya know?
The first one, is great and really different in style compared to what you normally produce. Kudos for exploring new looks. Tony Scott would be proud of you for this one.
The one of the young man looking back in a car, looks good... but without knowing the motivated light, that really cold blue/silver far side key looks a little distracting. I find myself wondering what on earth would project light like that. Ya know?
The first one, is great and really different in style compared to what you normally produce. Kudos for exploring new looks. Tony Scott would be proud of you for this one.
Andrew Brinkhaus
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Thanks for the kudos Ryan. For the guy in the doorway, his key side is lit with a fatboy kino-flo, and I actually used a MagLite with small piece of very light diffusion over it for his eyelight! Didnt throw off the contrast and still added that glint in his eye. The flag in the background was lit with a Tweenie uncorrected.
For the guy in the car, the light wasn't as strong in the original photo, I bumped up the contrast because I find that I often like a stylized image, but you could also say it is sunlight coming through the window as it would approximately match the angle of the shadows in the background. He is filled with a reflector and his far side key is a 6K HMI through a sheet of Hampshire Frost.
It's funny you mentioned Tony Scott as a reference, as that is kind of what I was going for in the color palette. I wanted something a little more gritty for this one. Used a silver reflector for her key and he was receiving bounce off a wall just out of frame right.
More coming soon hopefully, I just got my Nikon D90. Which makes me think I might start doing HD samples as well, kill two birds with one camera! :beer:
For the guy in the car, the light wasn't as strong in the original photo, I bumped up the contrast because I find that I often like a stylized image, but you could also say it is sunlight coming through the window as it would approximately match the angle of the shadows in the background. He is filled with a reflector and his far side key is a 6K HMI through a sheet of Hampshire Frost.
It's funny you mentioned Tony Scott as a reference, as that is kind of what I was going for in the color palette. I wanted something a little more gritty for this one. Used a silver reflector for her key and he was receiving bounce off a wall just out of frame right.
More coming soon hopefully, I just got my Nikon D90. Which makes me think I might start doing HD samples as well, kill two birds with one camera! :beer:
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Adam Gonzalez
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Where are you shooting this Andrew?
Andrew Brinkhaus
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Some of those were shot in Orlando, some in Colorado. From now on they will be shot in Los Angeles.