One Hour on Broadway - B&W

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I spent an hour or so shooting on the Upper West Side here in NYC with a borrowed 24 - 105 L series lens. I set the camera to monochrome and in-camera sharpening and contrast to 100%, which was perhaps a bit too much. Though I suspect there's a Z-Finder in my future, I didn't have much trouble getting sharp focus just using the plain old LCD screen.

I've currently got the 17 - 55 2.8 but miss having more reach on the long end of the zoom, and wanted to see how the 24 - 105 performed. I'm quite pleased with the results even though it's *only* an F4 lens.

http://vimeo.com/8483779
 
That looked really wonderful. I loved your shot choices and composition.

Being from NYC and those exact spots your visited, I have to say I am very warmed by how wonderfully you captured those locales.
 
Cool footage!

If you know you are going to finish as BW, try putting a red filter on when you shoot. It will darken your blues, giving you dark grey skies.
 
visugeek said:
Cool footage!

If you know you are going to finish as BW, try putting a red filter on when you shoot. It will darken your blues, giving you dark grey skies.
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If you are going to screw up the color image with a red filter in front of the lens, might as well save yourself the trouble and use the Monochrome picture style and set the "Filter Effect" to "Red".

-X
 
xbourque said:
If you are going to screw up the color image with a red filter in front of the lens, might as well save yourself the trouble and use the Monochrome picture style and set the "Filter Effect" to "Red".

-X
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Considering he set it to monochrome to start with there wouldn't have been a color image to "screw up". You might want to read his post.

A Pola with the Red can give some amazing results too.
 
I was trying to remember the film your piece reminded me of, so I went to IMDB and looked up James Garner. He was in a film in the early-mid-sixties called "Mr . Buddwing" that has the same flavor, both visually and musically.
 
Seamus McFlannel said:
I was trying to remember the film your piece reminded me of, so I went to IMDB and looked up James Garner. He was in a film in the early-mid-sixties called "Mr . Buddwing" that has the same flavor, both visually and musically.
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Thank you for the kind words. Someone else (?) posted a similar comment on my Vimeo page. I found one clip quick of it on YouTube and agree. It's not available on DVD, unfortunately.
 
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