My best work! Awesome lighting!

[LuckyProducer]

Hey guys. I directed and shot a music video to the song "Meant to Live" by Switchfoot. I didn't film the band, it's sort of a message video for the song. This is by far my best work, my best directing, my best lighting/cinematography. Here are some grabs. I still need to make some final touches on the video itself. We planned this out in like two hours and casted in about 5 minutes. We shot everything in one day. I edited it in about 2 days. I have some great behind the scenes footage as well showing step by step of every scene. Let me know what you guys think.


1. This is one of my favorites. That's me by the way.

2. Smoking paper is NOT fun.

3. Great scene!

4. Hey look, it's me in my bathroom. Love this lighting.

5. One of my most favorite shots.

6. Sweet!

7. This shot looks very filmic as well. Especially in moving picture.

8. Some DOF.

9. Sunny days can give you headaches...nice DOF.

 

[Brandon Rice]

these are all BAD LINKS.

 

[Sprack]

ey yi yi

 

[Isaac_Brody]

try imageshack.

 

[MalcolmOng]

So much for best work...lol

 

[Boomerang]

I like the third best

 

[LuckyProducer]

Haha! Sorry guys! Dang it. I hate putfile! I stayed up all night putting these up. Ok, I will try imageshack. Thank you!

 

[MalcolmOng]

Alright i take my comment back. Some of them look pretty good - good job on 4, 5, 6, and 7. However grab number 2 didnt look so good. Was this all ambient lighting?

 

[Brandon Rice]

Looks like natural lighting. Some look good though. I like 1,4,7.

 

[MalcolmOng]

You're probably right, brice, but #4 looks like its got a setup

 

[Rakesh Jacob]

ok so post the clip allready

 

[Brandon Rice]

You're probably right, brice, but #4 looks like its got a setup

true, but I like the grittiness it gave the shot.

 

[LighthouseMedia]

geez...
So at least we know what you think of your own work. How about letting someone else comment on your work rather than posting and telling us how awesome you are. Personally not impressed...

 

[MiniMan]

The colors and lighting looks good mostly, but the framing isn't all that great.

 

[dvpixl]

right. especially when you're going off on how awesome it is-it's hard for me to be impressed with any of your shots.

 

[saturnin]

youtube the video so we can see it...

 

[bewillia]

i thought this was brilliant comedy when the links were bad. now the humor is disturbing.

 

[MisterCat]

Agreed with most comments above. Some of the shots look ok but when you preemptively brag about it you're probably not going to get the best comments. Please post a link when you have the vid up somewhere.

 

[Kyle Stebbins]

definitely didnt like the bragging. to be honest, i looked at the first couple of pictures and read your comments about each one and found myself rushing to the last comment on the thread so that i could post on how, because of your over-confidence, i don't even care about the grabs.

try again, but leave out the comments.

 

[daveroberts]

i agree with alot of the comments already made on this thread, i dislike the over hyping of someone's own work, it somewhat gives me a negative view towards the person before i even begin to study the material.

its a shame, the shots are ok, but dont particularly stand out to me. If your happy with your own work then thats fine, but to rave about it so much puts alot of people off.

one or two of the grabs i looked at looked were not lit in my opinion, and were relying on ambient light, making the shot look flat and unappealing. i have always thought that lighting is a creative medium that alows you to experiment however, if a shot is unlit or lit badly, it can look extremely dull.