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lol, you are a little crazy my friend.

Nice vid. A little skewy on the train passing by huh? I know what to avoid now :)
 
Its funny because with this short I see almost every "How not to shoot with the 7D" point out there.

1. DO NOT shoot moving trains, for no reason whats so ever.
2. When in doubt go back to the first rule.
3. DO NOT shoot into the sun with out both a Mattebox, and ND's, unless its an aesthetic choice.
4. When choosing to disregard rules 1-3, make sure its done sparingly, otherwise it will be perceived as a failure to adhere to rules 1-3.

Quite funny though, well scripted dialog, which I'm sure was only contrived within a quick setting. So kudos, and I'm sure given some ample time you could definitely posses as voice for your characters.

Keep it up bro, my wife and I enjoyed it.
 
Nice!! I like!
Love the narration - Great voice by the way.

The train skew didn't bother me at all - In fact it could easily pass for an aesthetic effect choice.

Well done!

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Oh, and you sound like "Max Payn".
 
J. Odoms said:
Its funny because with this short I see almost every "How not to shoot with the 7D" point out there.

1. DO NOT shoot moving trains, for no reason whats so ever.
2. When in doubt go back to the first rule.
3. DO NOT shoot into the sun with out both a Mattebox, and ND's, unless its an aesthetic choice.
4. When choosing to disregard rules 1-3, make sure its done sparingly, otherwise it will be perceived as a failure to adhere to rules 1-3.

Quite funny though, well scripted dialog, which I'm sure was only contrived within a quick setting. So kudos, and I'm sure given some ample time you could definitely posses as voice for your characters.

Keep it up bro, my wife and I enjoyed it.
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I think all of Akira's shots were the 5D + Anamorphic lens, so I'm pretty sure he was wanting the lens flares from the Sun intentionally.
Besides RULES SUCK! :)
 
Since when has filmmaking been limited to rules? Train didn't bother me a bit. You guys must be buzzkills when it comes to watching movies with friends!

The shot selection for the dialogue scene was a bit flat in my opinion, but I liked how you explored the train station/platform. Digging the anamorphic look as well. I like the last shot a lot - as the train pulls up past him (you, I guess) and the sun hits the side of his (your?) face. Had a good feel, despite the melodrama of the script :)

It's difficult to have a good dialogue-intensive short film. The script was funny - had some good one liners. "I'm going to have to have YOU for lunch ..... and I'm not paying for it." Obviously it was done for fun, and I hope it was fun for you to make it.

Later buzzkillers!
 
i dont think you have to avoid "moving trains" or moving objects for that matter. one thing im finding though--- the lower you can keep your shutter speed (try for 30 and never exceed 60) the less frame-ish and the more filmic the footage will look, and since i have been following this rule i have yet to experience any rolling shutter or motion problems.

obviously in bright daylight if you want to do that and keep your fstop open, you'll need ND filters, etc....which I just picked up and have helped tremendously.
 
lol, well maybe I went a little overboard with sunlight lens flares but it's hard not to see how they'll turn out when shooting anamorphic, it's an addiction of mine. Maybe I'll scale back once I get the newness of them out of my system. No promises :cheesy:!

Yeah the rubber train is funny looking. Had another shot with less skew but Interestingly enough that ended up being the best shot of the two so it went in anyway. Seemed the film was quirky enough.

You guys caught me though I was missing correct sized ND filters so I was having to used slightly higher shutter speeds for a bunch of shots and caught a lot of overexposed stuff.

Glad you guys enjoy it
 
jsauce said:
i dont think you have to avoid "moving trains" or moving objects for that matter. one thing im finding though--- the lower you can keep your shutter speed (try for 30 and never exceed 60) the less frame-ish and the more filmic the footage will look, and since i have been following this rule i have yet to experience any rolling shutter or motion problems.
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1/30th? When shooting 24p?
1/50th is closer to the standard 1/48th for 24p.
I'm wondering what is it you find more filmic in shooting with a 1/30th shutter?
 
The skew on the train didn't bother me at all. I think the whole piece is great. Well done and the anamorphic surely looks good.
How does it look in 1080p? The anamorphic seems to soften the image quite a bit.
Would you also say the anamorphic lens knocked the contrast down a bit? The contrast looked good. It didn't look nearly as contrasty as the usual 5D/7D stuff, which is a good thing on my book.
What settings did you use?
Also, how much trouble was it to focus? Are the iscoramas fixed focus?
 
Sttratos said:
The skew on the train didn't bother me at all. I think the whole piece is great. Well done and the anamorphic surely looks good.
How does it look in 1080p? The anamorphic seems to soften the image quite a bit.
Would you also say the anamorphic lens knocked the contrast down a bit? The contrast looked good. It didn't look nearly as contrasty as the usual 5D/7D stuff, which is a good thing on my book.
What settings did you use?
Also, how much trouble was it to focus? Are the iscoramas fixed focus?
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It's a little bit softer and less contrasty than most 5D/7D footage because I am using flattened picture settings based on "Stu's settings". I added a little bit of sharpening in post and didn't bump the contrast up very much, the first minute of footage is cropped circular lenses and the anamorphic doesn't come in until the train station footage comes in. Lens flare of course adds to the reduced contrast as well. It would be a lot less soft with more sharpening but the lens is inherently softer too because I am using the stock Iscorama 50mm rear instead of a canon or nikon prime.
 
Pirata said:
It's a little bit softer and less contrasty than most 5D/7D footage because I am using flattened picture settings based on "Stu's settings". I added a little bit of sharpening in post and didn't bump the contrast up very much, the first minute of footage is cropped circular lenses and the anamorphic doesn't come in until the train station footage comes in. Lens flare of course adds to the reduced contrast as well. It would be a lot less soft with more sharpening but the lens is inherently softer too because I am using the stock Iscorama 50mm rear instead of a canon or nikon prime.
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Thanks. I would love to see a well exposed 1080p screen grab of your isco with the 7D to see how sharp of an image it is possible with this lens.
 
Sttratos said:
Thanks. I would love to see a well exposed 1080p screen grab of your isco with the 7D to see how sharp of an image it is possible with this lens.
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here are some stills I took with the Iscorama 50mm 2.8 today with the 5D to see the potential for sharpness, sorry Plasmasmp has the 7D with him so I can't do any samples with it yet.

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If only the video capabilities could look like that.. oh man...

What are "Stu's" settings?
 
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