Peaches and Dollys

Great stuff. The kids obviously don't "get it" now, but 30 years from now they are gonna be so glad that dad/mom shot and kept quality stuff like that. Simple moments in time like that are even gonna mean so much to you 20 years from now.

oh...cool dolly moves too.
 
CaptainMench,
what NLE do you use? If you use Premiere Pro (not sure if it comes with other software) but try using the free plug-in "SteadyMove" on some of those jerky dolly parts. The first one where you show the tree and the kid running under it in particular could use some smoothing out. The other ones were pretty good.
 
Thanks den...

Yeah -- I was -[ ]- this close to buying what I needed for a DIY dolly yesterday, but my wife suggested I use the wagon in the garage.

So I did. You can actually see it in one of the shots.

Even over the concrete of the back yard I see now why you NEED track.

This also helped me convince Linda how much cooler I'd be with my own dolly. Hehe.

I'll try a de-jitter. I use FCP, but have AE too.

Thanks

CaptM
 
Hey Mike,

Looks like you have the chroma cranked for these shots. I like that over-saturated look, reminds me of the old Kodachrome days of K40 (sadly now discontinued by Kodak).

Turn off auto exposure, it is distracting and screams "home video!"

Anyway, I admire the fact that your kids are such a big part of what you shoot. I need to get more into that myself. We have a camping trip coming up in a month or so with the whole family and I'm going to really try to record the essence of that.

Keep it up.
 
Auto Exposure OFF -- got it. There was that one long shot where you see the iris ramp up. I shouldn't have used it, but I wanted a long shot and that was all I had.

I acutally used color finesse with one of the kodak presets (don't think it was K40) with a little color push and black crush. Interesting you might have noticed that.

The first outside dolly shot was 'under exposed' compared to the other shots around it so I messed with the umpteen thousand controls in CF to try and bring it up and retain the green of the tree. Lots of noise in there.

Filming home movies -- I like what you said (maybe off the cuff...) "record the essence."

I should write a white paper for this, but here's my short version:

I'm done shooting the home movie - camera on record what you see - approach. Well -- I'm actually working hard to move away from that. Film is reality 24 frames a second. So, if you are going to only capture 24 shots a moment they should represent not recreate what you shoot. More impressionistic, I guess. True I'm a romantic at heart so everything needs to have a 'hyper-realism' to it also.

I certainly have a niche - I'm just constantly developing the skills.

Thanks

CaptM
 
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