New Zealand & G-LOG 1.1

[LiamR]

Late february I went over to new zealand to do some filming, once we got to the location, I turned the camera on and had a look through the view finder.... it was pitch black (lens cap wasn't on), boosted the gain up to around 18dB (what I feel comfortable shooting at) this was OUTDOORS don't forget (I shoot at high shutter speeds, 1/2500) and it was still very much so pitch black, this was with my normal PP, which is a mixture of Abel Cine Range and some tweaks on my behalf. I had my fastest lens on which is my FD 50mm f1.4, so I flicked through some of the other profiles and it landed on PP 5, which is G-LOG 1.1 and it was very, very bright (at 18dB), so I dialed it back to something useable and thought to myself, I'm in an amazing country, for 2 days, should I take this risk.................and I did.

After every shot I wondered if it was going to look good or not after I had graded it, I don't have ANY expertise with color grading at all, just from playing around in FCP / Magic Bullet, so it had me a bit worried. I didn't have to worry much about skin tones, given they're wearing helmets, but the gear they're wearing had me a bit curious as to how it would re-act, considering how orange it is. Got the footage back and started to play around with it and wow, this camera is a god amongst men.

Before:

After:

I did shoot a couple of shots without helmets/gear on, where I had a go at getting the skin tones as best as I could, here are my results.

*we dont really have any paiste white mountain bike riders in australia, they're all tanned. (which causes that orange)

Before this, the only time I had shot with G-LOG 1.1 was on a shoot with one of my mates, not for a client or any release, just for fun basically, and what intrigues me the most is after I shot this stuff in new zealand (which I was blown away by) I went back to Australia and had a go with it on a couple of other shoots, and it just fell apart, it didn't look good at all, the colors were all over the place. I haven't shot with it since, but maybe there is something magical in New Zealand, haha!

Here's the video anyway.

 

[wannabeapilot]

so... you shot with gain? in daytime?

reds look horribly oversaturated

nice edit though

 

[LiamR]

so... you shot with gain? in daytime?

No, I should of made it clearer, when I had my profile on I had to push the camera into 18dB and still didn't get anything visible, then I switched it to G-LOG 1.1 and turned the gain back to 0dB, in some of these shots there are gain seeing as we shot until 8PM at night (nothing over 9dB though.) And as you can see in the video, the trees where thick and created an endless shadow, I also shoot at higher shutter speeds (1/2500) to get rid of the motion blur.

 

[wannabeapilot]

No, I should of made it clearer, when I had my profile on I had to push the camera into 18dB and still didn't get anything visible, then I switched it to G-LOG 1.1 and turned the gain back to 0dB, in some of these shots there are gain seeing as we shot until 8PM at night (nothing over 9dB though.) And as you can see in the video, the trees where thick and created an endless shadow, I also shoot at higher shutter speeds (1/2500) to get rid of the motion blur.

ah gotcha, wasnt quite sure from the first post

good looking stuff except for the reds man

 

[LiamR]

ah gotcha, wasnt quite sure from the first post

good looking stuff except for the reds man

Thanks buddy, red's in the what can I ask exactly? skins tones, etc...?

*I should just add, there's 2 or 3 shots at the start done with a GH2.

 

[LiamR]

I backed the saturation off in every shot and it's made it look 100% better I think, thoughts?

 

[wannabeapilot]

definitely looks better!

 

[Michael Solomon]

glog a or b?

 

[LiamR]

A

 

[stancemedia]

Liam,

Your still kicking in the edit department! Really engaging editing man really digging it.
Looks like a blast in terms of a trip. And the pass about halfway through was hilarious!
Always helps to film people with character

Loving it. Only thing I notice are some shots are more contrasty which is mainly when
the camera angle is flipped to shoot opposite of the previous shot. Naturally the lighting
will be different.

Going to a 60p workflow? Or only some shots in 60p?

Looking sick man!

 

[LiamR]

Cheers Matt, Yeah the trip was awesome, good guys, lots of good times haha!

The lighting is never easy outdoors, especially when you have schedule to make and weather changing constantly. But I made the best of it!

Pure 60p workflow.