Olympic National Park

Very nice images Steven, we need images like that just to convince people to be more carefull about nature. Let us know when you get the new masterpiece. Thanks to share your shots in the meantime.

By the way, what is the city who open and close your film ? Is it Seattle ?
 
Beautiful compositions as usual. I think a few of the shots could us a bit of color grading, but otherwise it looked pretty good. It was a little jarring to see the opening title and then go straight to a shot of the space needle, so maybe opening with the shot of the guy on the rear of the ship deck would be a better start. Overall, some nice eye candy.
 
Thanks for the comments guys....

Barry, your comments were well taken and I agree with you. This is a work in progress.

Shadow, the city is Seattle.
 
First of all it's official. Pine Lake Films and the Pine Lake Films Theme are permanently ingrained into my skull. It has a familiar quality; like you know what your gonna get and its good and its like home.

When it broke into cinema verite amongst the driftwood and trees on the shore; I loved it. Something about this transition visually just completely clicked for me.

For the me; the secret ingredient does not lie in the beautiful composed imagery and locales nor does it lie in the score that accompanies the piece it is the use of people in this palette. I love the waves and the trees and the vistas and skylines and the attention to detail with the sea foam but as soon as a person is seen walking along or in the distance the imagery leaps off of the screen into my head; it adds a visual scale to the work, it adds depth and intimacy and a relative association; suddenly what appears to be postcards is magicaly transformed into something I can touch and taste and smell.

As always bravo; this is worth every second of my time. And this one here; IS MY FAVORITE yet. If anything clicked for you wiht this I wouldnt be surprised.

Remember when Coltrain said that 90% of your work was due to your locale? Some people. It's just unconcious knowledge ya know?

More more more!
 
I loved seeing the Dungeness stuff again. It was... "Hey - I shot that same piece of driftwood!"

Beautifully done.

CaptM
 
Uploaded a new edit (the opening shots). Thanks for the suggestion Barry. BTW, this piece has not been color corrected yet.

Thanks Mike and John for your kind words.
 
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Its always a pleasure to see your work, D. I was bumming when you took a vacation from this forum.

It is to my mind a perfect marriage of imagery, composition, and musical score. As John said, as soon as you see the Pine Lake Films crawl, you know what is coming is going to be pure eye candy.

Disjecta, one thing that I really admire about your clips, and which I am trying to emulate, is how well you capture detail on long shots. You know, far off trees, or shorelines, or the falls in your Twin Peaks location shoot. From what you have posted in the past, it is my understanding that you are doing several things to pull out that detail:

1) You are up-resing your footage with the son of S-Spline Pro, which adds a certain pleasant quality to the footage

2) You are using a telephoto lens to tighten up the shot

3) You've upped the detail level a bit? +4?

4) You have a matte box and use a polarizing filter

Anyway, I'm interested in any tips you have about how to eek out that last bit of detail with the DVX100!
 
Holy maca-****ing-roni!

Once again, I am going to bed with a serious inferiority complex. Anyone wanna buy my DVX?

Disjecta, if I arrange a free accommodation on Vancouver Island, will you come and shoot with me? Your stuff is simply awesome (forget that color-grading nitpick comment. Barry is just jealous :grin: ).

Great stuff.
 
Disjecta,

I am a fan of your work, and I just wanted to say thank you for the trip to Olympic National Park. I especially liked the shots of the low lying grasses in the foreground with the mountain range in the distance, the person walking along the ridge with the crown of a tree under the clouds, and near the end where the sun is streaming in through the trees. Also, the elapsed shot of the clouds on the mountain is amazing. I'm new to all this digital filmmaking, so I'm just trying to learn everything I can while I save up for a DVX, and a site I frequently visit is Pine Lake Films. Keep up the great work.
 
This is absolutely beautiful, its mesmerizing. I honestly can not believe its video. It looks too good.

I love the shot of the squirrel and when the birds fly away on the note and when the woman walks past the camera at the beach and...

I just signed up the dvd, please add bonus features on your techniques.

In addition, the labor involved to take such such shots deserves to be commended.
 
speedbump said:
1) You are up-resing your footage with the son of S-Spline Pro, which adds a certain pleasant quality to the footage

2) You are using a telephoto lens to tighten up the shot

3) You've upped the detail level a bit? +4?

4) You have a matte box and use a polarizing filter
Click to expand...

Actually, for this piece, I shot in squeeze mode... this preceded my uprezzing method. The difference is subtle but you can see it on a big screen...the uprez method is sharper but this still looks good. So, basically what I'm saying is that this is not uprezzed, nor will it be because of the original footage being squeezed. I only uprez letterbox or 4x3-originated footage.

I'm using a teleconverter in some shots but most are with the stock lens.

The detail level is at 0. I found it to be a little harsh when bumped up.

I have a matte box but did not use it for this trip. I do not use a polarizing filter. No filters were used in this piece aside from the built in ND filters.

Jerry, I'd love to go to Vancouver Island at some stage. I'll let you know :)

Thanks for the wonderful comments guys, and thanks to all who have signed up for the DVD. Watch my site for news on that.
 
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Just wondering if you had any tips on how you went about capturing the footage at 3:30? (The sun through the trees) And also the Seattle skyline?

Was it more a matter of timing? (Like waking up early to get the sun, or was it just one of those happy accidents where you were at the right place at the right time?)

For the skyline, was there enough light coming from the city to get the shot, or did you have to make any adjustments?

Oh, I just thought of another question- typically what do you find your shooting ratio to be? Do you find that you have to cover a lot to get the best footage? (I would think that you would as you can't schedule mother nature to do her thing.)
 
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