behind the scenes and more
One of the things I noticed – first with the DSLR revolution and now with the EPIC is how a small camera allows you too also scale all the associated gear on a shoot. As you have smaller cameras – you have smaller everything else. Smaller tripods (we had the EPIC on a 75mm bowl [...]
We are grading the footage from our recent shoots. The thing that strikes me is the flexibility of grading with this footage. Of course there are many ways one can grade footage, with the recent Curl Curl Sea Pool clip we went down a de-sat path, with the New Zealand footage a bolder, richer and [...]
As we work hard to get the last of the classes out for the term – we are continuing to shoot for next term. This shot was from magic hour last night – directed by Dr Bill Collis of the Foundry who was visiting us for a special EPIC shoot (this footage will be on [...]
This magnificent image is from Stu – from New Zealand, and looking at this I am reminded of the old saying “work with people who are better than you”. Stu taught me a bunch on this trip about color grading, approaches to composition and all just in passing as we were processing clips, or driving [...]
As a lot of people liked yesterday’s still, here is another. And a few thoughts: If you are doing EPIC work you need – a lot of discs – a red rocket card – if not two – a minimum of eSATA for data transfer – LTO 5 for archives – time to test HDRx
I made a remark on The RC podcast about how little I picked up my 5D in New Zealand. The reason I said that was many fold. First – the EPIC was nearly always in the best position – be that out the chopper, on the boat, on the car etc… I mean if there [...]
We are pleasde to announce that Stu Maschwitz is joining fxphd again to film, teach and work in the April term. We don’t normally post these sorts of things so far in advance but as Stu is here filming with us in New Zealand, it is a bit hard to keep quiet. Stu and the [...]
It is late at night but we wanted to just post a couple of images from today. The tree shot is an HDRx – just a quick grab from the original 5K Full Frame .r3d file. The second is Mike in the safety rig for flying through the trees on wires with the EPIC. It [...]
Day 2 We have touched down in New Zealand. We have the following small amount of kit 1 EPIC 3 5Ds 1 1D Mk IV Arri 8R PL 12mm Master prime f1.3 (!) PL 25mm PL 50mm PL 135mm PL 11-16mm PL 8mm Canon 17mm Canon S+T 50 mm Canon 1.2 50 mm Canon 1.4 [...]