S-LOG skin tones demo

Sparky874

Sparky874

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The one thing I'm most impressed about with S-LOG, is how the F3 handles skin tones. Here is a short clip featuring a selection of shots from a documentary I am currently making. They are not cut to the music in any way (which actually forms the basis of the project) but are just there to demonstrate my point. Hope you agree. Best, Sparky

 
Reminds me of the Blackmagic John Brawley footage I saw. Instantly, you can just feel a higher quality image without compression artifacts and forced color spaces that are too small. Capture more color, and more shades, and you can be confident the image will stand up. It just looks more professional than most DSLR footage.
 
Really reminds me of of Kodachrome 25 film of the 30s and 40s. It had a great color palette., especially skin tones.

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Kodachrome had more poetry in it than other film stock, a softness, an elegance.

The F3 comes closer than anything else I saw so far.

Frank
 
Sparky874 said:
The one thing I'm most impressed about with S-LOG, is how the F3 handles skin tones. Here is a short clip featuring a selection of shots from a documentary I am currently making. They are not cut to the music in any way (which actually forms the basis of the project) but are just there to demonstrate my point. Hope you agree. Best, Sparky

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Just for your info, make sure to add the a link also so those on iPads/iPhones can still go directly to Vimeo to see the video.

A question. Is this video graded?
 
Sparky, what was you workflow in de-logging your S-Log footage? Did you use a reverse curve from another camera as your "base".
IOW, how did you dial the contrast, etc. back into your scenes?

Thanks,
 
For those iPad users who cannot see the video, download Puffin (it allows you to play flash on the iPad).

Looks good Sparky.
 
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Really reminds me of of Kodachrome 25 film of the 30s and 40s. It had a great color palette., especially skin tones.
Kodachrome had more poetry in it than other film stock, a softness, an elegance.
The F3 comes closer than anything else I saw so far.

Frank
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If that isn't the truth. I absolutely adored Kodachrome. Nothing looked better and the early incarnations were the best.
I was crushed when it was discontinued last year. Now I dread the day that Tri-X goes away.

The next best thing to Kodachrome was three strip Technicolor, like Cardiff shot on "The Red Shoes' and 'Black Narcissus'.
 
Thanks for the positive feedback everyone and thanks for the nod about getting it seen on ipads etc Douglas.

'Sparky, what was you workflow in de-logging your S-Log footage? Did you use a reverse curve from another camera as your "base".
IOW, how did you dial the contrast, etc. back into your scenes?'

Bill, I think I am gradually getting to grips with exposing S-LOG footage. I edit with (and have done for many many years) Sony Vegas, so don't have Color etc to hand or resolve. I manually de-log the shots myself using my own custom colour curves. I have about ten different curves and I apply the 'best matched' curve to each shot, and then tweak it from there. Sometimes I then add a little saturation, but only a tiny bit if at all. I am happy with the look, on some shots it looks amazing, but sometimes I don't know if it looks a bit too flat. I shot some footage of my son playing in the garden with my own picture profile (non S-LOG) yesterday and the pictures just jumped off the screen in terms of colour and 'punch', very different to S-LOG. I don't think you could mix the two on the same timeline. I am not sure if you could grade the S-LOG to have those punchy colours if I wanted too, but I guess those colors look more videoish anyhow.
Both shooting and editing the S-LOG footage is a steady learning process for me. When shooting I think it's too easy to worry about over exposing - and then exposing too low. But I think you are better off over exposing slightly and bring down the levels rather than under exposing and then having to 'ligft' the levels.
I am really looking forward to being able to dial in my own colour temperature with S-LOG (when the new update is out) and not having to colour correct a shot that should have been at 4,400k but was shot at 5,600. I believe this will make the footage look even better as save us time as well. Thanks again for feedback. Best, Sparky
 
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