December 19th, 2007 by mikes
From all of us here, thanks for the year, we hope to see you again in 2008. Travel Safe.
Archive for December, 2007
December 18th, 2007 by mikes
It is hard sometimes to shoot bad stuff, but in response to requests in the RED course, we have been shooting bad blue screen. Given the Bayer pattern on the sensor, the response to light and a few other things - we know that the best keying option would be green screen, and we have done green screen tests. But in the real world we all know that bad things happen - so with the help of some friends we shot a not very blue, poorly lit, mixture of daylight and tungsten, blue screen shot with the RED. We will again be distributing the footage to fxphd members.
It is not that we are trying to screw the RED or promote bad blue screens - but having shot great blue screen and keyed it with the RED - we figured we should see how it handles the bad stuff!
December 11th, 2007 by mikes
This week’s upcoming fxphd, we are looking at 35mm lens adaptors.
Which is also a great way to drink cocktails while working.
We did not do a shoot out but we did try and show a range of options and some low cost cool solutions.
I used to be very nervous about these solutions but after using them - I would totally recommend them for an Indie production or film clip. You do need more light but still the results look so much more flimic - you just have to remember to never switch them off between takes! (As we found out first hand this week).
December 5th, 2007 by mikes
It is hard to not just post stills from our photography course here each week - clearly they lend themselves to this production blog. We just finished shooting another class and while I posted a few of these for the Post-Grads in those classes - I figured I would also post here.
What makes fxphd work is the quality of the lecturers - such as Tim Wheeler who runs photography course. Tim is a professional photographer and each week he covers a new subject - this week it is flash photography. I for one nearly always avoid the flash as the prop of a bad photographer - but in Tim’s hand the images just sing. These location fashion images were all just done hand held with a flash - no expensive gear just some great styling by our own Chris Chisato Arai - our brilliant stylist… and Georgina our model and Tim. To be honest these classes are just better than I imagined when we were debating adding Photography to fxphd… now I can not imagine having the courses !
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