The Farmer's Flea Market

Martti Ekstrand

Martti Ekstrand

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August 29th, 2009 a flea market was arranged on Bondegatan (Farmer Street) in Stockholm. I took a walk along the over one kilometer long stretch with my brother and his family filming friends and strangers alike.

I used my Panasonic GH1 with a Canon FD 35mm f/2.0 and Cokin ND filters.

 
Nice rich colours. I thought the edit was a bit on the long side, but other than that, great stuff. The soundtrack wasn't half bad either!
 
Gives a great sense of the place, activity and the people. Sync with the music and the typewriter shot was nice. Maybe a bit long, but enjoyable nonetheless.
 
Thanks for that, Martti, very nice. Great focus pulling, too.

People at your flea market are better-looking than folks at our flea market! But maybe it's just the slo-mo ... :-)
 
Well, length of films like this is highly subjective - I tend to loose attention at the four minute mark so I try to stay within that unless subject or story needs more.

It's my brother who made the music, I'll pass on all the nice comments, he'll be happy to hear it.

Peter J. DeCrescenzo said:
Great focus pulling, too.
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Thanks Peter, by this time I'd gotten fairly used to pull focus with the GH1 and FDs. I'm especially proud of 3:03 - 3:16 where I nail 4 focus point in a follow the flow take. It's worth noting that I did all the shooting through the electronic viewfinder which is much better than strapping a loupe to the LCD.
 
Martti Ekstrand said:
... I'm especially proud of 3:03 - 3:16 where I nail 4 focus point in a follow the flow take. ...
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I noticed that scene the 1st time I watched the video. Really nice. Doesn't it feel great when it works? :-)

... It's worth noting that I did all the shooting through the electronic viewfinder which is much better than strapping a loupe to the LCD.
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Yup. I don't understand why people buy LCD _magnifying_ loupes for the GH1; it's not like the LCD & VF specs are secret. Having said that, I believe there are some folks whose eyes react badly to the way the GH1's VF constructs a color image (they see flickering), so for them it's understandably more comfortable to use a LCD.
 
Was this all handheld with nothing to help stabilize it? Much easier to get away with handheld using the 35mm f2 lens compared to the popular 50mm f1.4 lens. Were you using the Cokin P Series filter holder on the lens? If so, how do you like that holder compared to screw filters?

Randy
 
All handheld using the classic press photographer stance with the camera as is, right hand on camera body operating buttons and shutter, left hand steadying under lens while focusing and elbows tucked into torso - no extra handles or weights. 50mm is too tele to handhold steady for me, 35mm works reasonably fine.
Cokin P filter holder and their plastic ND filters, hadn't got my rails and matte box at the time. Wouldn't try to do this kind of shooting with screw-in filters, due to the moving clouds light level was changing constantly so just having to quickly yank in and out square filters was the only way to keep up.
 
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