Sunday Snapper Session

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deltoidjohn

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Here's a little clip I shot on the weekend. It was overcast and raining all - normally I wouldn't bother shooting surfing in those conditions but wanted to get more famiiar with my new 550D. I was really happy with the images compared to what I normally get with my FX7 in similar lighting conditions. Much more dynamic range and colour, giving the images far more punch despite the weather.


 
Libec TH-650.

I've been really happy with it - to be honest I never though a $250 tripod would last me 3 years, but it has served me very well. I've been so happy with it that I'll probably stay with Libec when the time comes to upgrade - probably an LS-38.
 
Dig it! You know what I'm gonna ask though lol... how much lens did you use there?

BTW, the barrel at 1:30-ish gave me movement!
 
Shot the whole thing with a 70-200mm Tamron.

I was actually pissed at myself because I got a few shots at 200mm from on top of some rocks right at the waters edge. Then I decided to get a few pulled back shots at about 90mm from the same location. Then the rain came and I had to retreat to shelter further back. So then, even at 200mm it was really pulled back. So I ended up with a whole bunch of wide shots and not enough tighter ones.

The crazy thing about that barrel at 1:27 is that was actually the second part of the wave - most of the tube action was happening out of sight further behind the rocks.
 
Looks nice to me though, nice piece to watch.
Can you tell me something more about that "burning yellow/red" flashy effect you used in some scene changes ? Very effective :)
thx 4 sharing
 
Thanks CiPO!

The "light leak" or "film burn" effect is something I'd seen used alot and I really love the look of it as long as it is not overdone. I made it in After Effects using an animated gradient and changing the composite mode.

I started be creating a new layer with a gradient going from orange to black. I then animated the start & end points as well as the angle of the gradient so that it started off screen and then kind of swept across the frame. Then made it linger and flicker a little bit by tweaking the angle/end points very slightly from frame to frame and making the colour flicker back in forth between white and orange. Then make it swipe back off screen again so the layer finishes as a black screen.

I then dropped the gradient layer into my main comp in AE and changed the track's composite/matte mode to "colour burn." The black goes transparent and the colour bits give a kind-of glowing/burning look. The brighter the colour, the more intense the effect.

I've used the exact same method in Vegas as well and I'm sure it would work in FCP as well. I'm not too sure about newer versions of Premiere (I'm still on CS3 which doesn't allow you to change the composite mode within Premiere) but they may let you do it without having to do a round trip to AE.

I hope this helps somewhat. I've searched before for tutorial's about this effect but most of them just say "download xyz stock effects pack." I couldn't find any proper tutorials so I just did it by trial and error - hopefully this makes it easier for someone else!
 
WOW, tons of good info !! thanks for sharing :)
It makes sense and it will be much better when I will try that, waiting my new editing PC right now ....
THX again 4 great sharing !
 
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