Location Scouting with the D90

looks great! great atmosphere and colors.

What lense are you using at the gas station when you are tracking the girl at the gas station?

What is your technique for keeping the camera still? I was impressed that your footage wasn't so wobbly...
 
Jim Klatt said:
looks great! great atmosphere and colors.

What lense are you using at the gas station when you are tracking the girl at the gas station?

What is your technique for keeping the camera still? I was impressed that your footage wasn't so wobbly...
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From Vimeo...
No CC but I set the white balance to 3200K to bring out the blues in the halogen lights. All of it was shot on a 50mm F/1.8, which is tbh my favorite lens with this camera. Can remember if I used any in camera presets other than M.
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Jim Klatt said:
looks great! great atmosphere and colors.

What lense are you using at the gas station when you are tracking the girl at the gas station?

What is your technique for keeping the camera still? I was impressed that your footage wasn't so wobbly...
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Thanks! Everything was shot on a 50mm F/1.8.

Wasn't so wobbly? Perhaps I'm just being hard on myself but I see nasty wobble all over the place :P My technique is mentioned somewhere here on the forum (not that I thought it up), it's just to put lots of tension on the neckstrap to minimize hand shake.

Glad you liked it!
 
Nice.

Well this is why I got my D90 for x-mas, I wanted to have a great location scouting camera. The idea that people are using it to shoot video work is funny to me, I mean I figured on using the video mode for informal things like location scouting, so this is definitely what I had in mind. It seems like a great tool as a director, not necessary I suppose but there's just more credibility about going to a location and taking photos with a REAL camera rather than pulling out a hokey little consumer camera from your pocket and snapping a few pictures. That's ok, it's really not that bad, but I prefer to show myself as a bit more professional than that. Image is a lot in this business, too. People take you seriously when you have more gear, right or not, that's how it goes.
 
yeah i know what you mean, i had to leave my HV20 at home to shoot an event and rent a XL2 at much lower definition just to have a bulkier camera at work.. sad but a fact.
 
JonathanLB said:
Nice.

Well this is why I got my D90 for x-mas, I wanted to have a great location scouting camera. The idea that people are using it to shoot video work is funny to me, I mean I figured on using the video mode for informal things like location scouting, so this is definitely what I had in mind. It seems like a great tool as a director, not necessary I suppose but there's just more credibility about going to a location and taking photos with a REAL camera rather than pulling out a hokey little consumer camera from your pocket and snapping a few pictures. That's ok, it's really not that bad, but I prefer to show myself as a bit more professional than that. Image is a lot in this business, too. People take you seriously when you have more gear, right or not, that's how it goes.
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when you're an indie filmmaker, the only respect you'll get is what's on screen, not that gear you have....commercial work, probably
 
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