Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hey there everyone, just figured I’d give you all an inside look at what a shoot for me generally involves.

For a simple equipment list, I have a small piece of white poster board I use as a reflector, a Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 12-35mm f/2.8 lens, a Tiffen polarizer and .6 neutral density filter all held up by a Manfrotto tripod.

For the past few shoots, I’ve had a few props such as journals and quarters, so that has been a huge part of my preparation and execution. The most notable thing about this is that I keep forgetting these props and I have had to reschedule specific shoots maybe 3 or 4 different times. With my actors all in classes of their own, it makes it very difficult to coordinate everyone effectively. There have only been a few days where the weather has been uncooperative but even then I was able to make accommodations. Too bad it decided to really only rain well enough three days out of the last four weeks. That means whatever I got on those days… well that’s pretty much it. I’m finalizing a few of my main shots right now and have begun vigorously editing. This isn’t the project I had imagined when I first entered this class/fabricated my proposal, but I’m liking the direction it has taken.

When I’m looking to shoot a scene, I’m always looking for the most interesting angles, viewpoints and depth of field. I love advanced camera techniques and it makes me sad that I couldn’t find the required parts for my steadicam system because I am now having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not those shots are really important enough. One of my friends recently invested in a legitimate Glidecam system but he hasn’t expressed interest in letting me use it so we will see if tomorrow I can throw it all on and get some of the shots I had hoped for.

I love the look and feel of sprawling landscapes, same with dilapidated buildings. I love wide shots to death, but I’m beginning to see that my camera just looks a little too digital for me while the closer shots look much more cinematic. Of course this has to do with depth of field and a few other things but I’ve always had a big problem with close shots as they require absolutely meticulous planning both on the director’s and actor’s part. I’m not sure how to rectify my feelings other than color correcting the shit out of all my footage, so I guess that’s what I’ll do.

I have a bunch more to add here but I’m running a tad late for a shoot today. Ta ta!

Hope everyone has a good week preparing for their presentation!

Hello,

I realized I haven’t made a post in a while, so I figured that I would put forth hard information on the color correction techniques I’m using and why they are important to creating a certain look and feel.

I feel like every film has had some type of post production editing done to the image quality — at least from the 80′s on they must have realized the beautifully startling effect just a little bit of tweaking could have.

The process is very similar to what a photographer would encounter when editing their photos in post, given that you’re literally just trying to improve the image quality in some way from the original. The tools used for editing in both video and photo allow the artist to have complete creative control over the image style.

As you can see in comparison, they lightened up the image, corrected the color on both the subject as well as the background and I’m sure they adjusted the contrast/levels to make the image more neutral in density.

Having complete creative control over the presented image means that you don’t have to stick with any certain look or feel. The programs I’m using to edit make it really easy to revert my changes and is powerful enough to change literally every aspect that I could want to about the image. Using the last image as an example, the barn door adjacent to the chicken didn’t seem right as a plain white.. the image looks more full – a little more intense and heavy. It gives the picture some weight, and if the emotions are high in the particular scene then I’m sure the two would translate well together on screen.

This is probably my favorite part of the process as I’m always trying to get the best possible image out of my cameras/I always have a certain look in mind when I start a film project. After every shoot, if I have time, I sit down with the footage, color correct most all of it and then decide on which specific shots to use after I have the completed footage.

I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient way to do what I need however having this kind of control intrigues me and, as I said, I enjoy spending my time on this part of the film making process. This activity only reaffirms my aspirations as a cinematographer of some sort, I’m pretty excited with what I could use this on in this future.

Hello,

I realized I haven’t made a post in a while, so I figured that I would put forth hard information on the color correction techniques I’m using and why they are important to creating a certain look and feel.

I feel like every film has had some type of post production editing done to the image quality — at least from the 80′s on they must have realized the beautifully startling effect just a little bit of tweaking could have.

The process is very similar to what a photographer would encounter when editing their photos in post, given that you’re literally just trying to improve the image quality in some way from the original. The tools used for editing in both video and photo allow the artist to have complete creative control over the image style.

As you can see in comparison, they lightened up the image, corrected the color on both the subject as well as the background and I’m sure they adjusted the contrast/levels to make the image more neutral in density.

Having complete creative control over the presented image means that you don’t have to stick with any certain look or feel. The programs I’m using to edit make it really easy to revert my changes and is powerful enough to change literally every aspect that I could want to about the image. Using the last image as an example, the barn door adjacent to the chicken didn’t seem right as a plain white.. the image looks more full – a little more intense and heavy. It gives the picture some weight, and if the emotions are high in the particular scene then I’m sure the two would translate well together on screen.

This is probably my favorite part of the process as I’m always trying to get the best possible image out of my cameras/I always have a certain look in mind when I start a film project. After every shoot, if I have time, I sit down with the footage, color correct most all of it and then decide on which specific shots to use after I have the completed footage.

I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient way to do what I need however having this kind of control intrigues me and, as I said, I enjoy spending my time on this part of the film making process. This activity only reaffirms my aspirations as a cinematographer of some sort, I’m pretty excited with what I could use this on in this future.