Retro Pinup Workshop

blownapartstudios

blownapartstudios

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A behind the scenes music montage of a Pinup themed photography workshop.

Lenses: Minolta 58mm 1.2 and 135mm 2.8, Panasonic 20mm 1.7 and 7-14mm 4.

Graded in Magic Bullet Looks.

Hope you enjoy.

 
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I edited your post to make sure the video shows up.

When adding video now all you need to do is click the little filmstrip ICON and paste the videos WHOLE URL into the pop up.

Start code should look like this [video]

then you will have the full url

with the usual endcode which will be same as above but with the "/" end code marker between the [ and v like this [/V......
 
Hi,
Like the shoot, and the music too. Couple of things I would like to know, what format are you shooting with the GH1, I assume it's FHD or 720p? How do you handle the AVCHD files in post? I have just shot a whole months worth of travel stuff in FHD and the images, those with a lot of movement, are very jerky. I have tried running them through CineForm's NeoScene that helps but not as much as I need.
 
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

The whole thing was shot in FHD 1080P. All the post work was done in Premiere CS5. We used to run everything through NeoScene before an edit but when CS5 came out we found it unnecessary. Actually, we did a lot of testing with native CS5 editing vs CineForm and found that in almost every case, the native codec held up better under extreme color correction than Cineform did. As far as the jerky movement you are having with your footage, it's possible it may be because of a very high shutter speed. All the footage from the Pinup shoot was shot at 1/50th of a second shutter speed. This slow of a shutter speed creates a film like look and the motion blur smooths out the motion. If your shooting in bright light and have a much higher shutter speed, say 1/100th or faster it will create a very strobe like jerky motion (Note: there's nothing wrong with this look if it's what you want, "Saving Private Ryan" made this look famous). Normally if I'm shooting in bright light and I want to keep my aperture open but keep a 1/50th shutter speed I will use a "Fader ND" variable ND filter. This will allow you to control the amount of light coming into your lens so you can maintain your 1/50th shutter speed. Now actually in the case of the Pinup shoot, the museum we shot in was so dark that I didn't need to use a Fader ND, I just set the shutter at 1/50th and changed the ISO depending on the lens and aperture being used (and we used everything, there is footage from 100 ISO to 1600 ISO scattered through the whole video).

I hope that helps.
 
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Avchd

Avchd

Yes thanks that does, I was debating the upgrade to CS5 from CS4, sounds like a very good approach when working with AVCHD. Good point too about the shutter speeds and multi grade ND filter. I did try to keep the shutter speed on the GH1 to 1/60th or so but it was difficult under variable conditions working from a boat.
 
Damn.... I only get the following

"This video contains Sony Music Ent... material and showing in your country (Finland) is not possible due to copyright issues..."

Would have liked to see it ...
 
The video played fine for me, and I really enjoyed it. My only critique is that I thought that for a shoot of that size, the hair and make up was totally wrong. Even through the models were costumed correctly, and in vintage settings, their hair and make up was too contemporary, IMHO. I don't know if you had any say in that, but just sayin'. The video was very well done.
 
nicely executed & great theme! i wish i had been there ;oP lots of happy photographers that day i bet :smile:
 
Looks like a nice days work ;-]
I'm not usually a fan of a lot of MB looks, but in this case it was a good choice. The 7-14 shots at the end looked great.
 
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