Season 3, Episode 3: Shooting a Family Vacation: Portrait Photography
Panasonic Lumix GF7 review at Digitalversus.
Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro Review (Photographyblog).
Five Super Sharp Portrait Lenses for Your Mirrorless Camera (ThePhoBlographer).
Seocnd part of the LX100 review at Mirrorlessons.
New German Micro Four Thirds Lens Database at m43-objektive.de.
Nelson: “Moon rise video I done few days ago, with GH4 + Tokina 80-200mm F2.8 https://vimeo.com/116236116”
Christer Wikström: “Pictures I take on a weekend trip with an Olympus Pen E-P5 and 45mm lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REN6ufyeQNE”
Ludwig “Location: Zurich, Switzerland. Camera: AG-AF100. Lenses: Lumix 35-100 mm and Lumix 7-14 mm. Recorder: BlackmagicDesign UltraStudio 3D over HD-SDI. Recording-format: DPX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqxRZLXFVw”
Kyle: “I wanted to share with you this video I did for transworld skateboarding. I made a boxed array of 6 GH4s. I hope you enjoy it and possibly share it! http://skateboarding.
Capion Studio: “https://vimeo.com/117715659 s800 Evo Test Flight with the Zenmuse + Panasonic GH4. This slightly aging Hexacopter is still a real contender in the field of aerial platforms. The s800 Evo paired with the GH4 Zenmuse results in a rock solid unit that is just about up for any task. We took it around our neighborhood and here is the results. No warp stabilization has been applied.”
Michael: “I have done a spot of thinking and experimenting. Which has led to the death of the “flat” profile misconception. And the regaining of all the time wasted on fiddling with, and rendering of, technically inferior footage.
The technical explanation is here: http://www.supertone.dk/#!GH4-
Here is a full ASA range test – from 200 to 6400 ASA www.vimeo.com/112699788“
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“I have done a spot of thinking and experimenting. Which has led to the death of the “flat” profile misconception. And the regaining of all the time wasted on fiddling with, and rendering of, technically inferior footage.
This is one thing I haven’t really much seen as worth to do as people do it. People run after “IT NEEDS TO BE FLAT!!!!! FLAAAAAT!!!” like it is a cardinal rule that can’t never ever, in any moment, ever be done otherwise. Instead then their footage looks dulls, it is less sharp and there is no “spirit”.
And so often even the “greatest” samples on youtube/vimeo etc are such that they would have looked much better recording everything normally than with any “flat” settings, as they just try to get footage to look same as original.
The reason why we have the color grading is to fix the chemical problems in film cameras. Different films, different lighting and now change to change white balance and chemicals gets consumed in long film development where start of the film has different colors than end of the film and gets worse more film was developed.
So color grading was there to help to get colors correct between films and development chemicals.
But it seems like in 24fps vs 25fps/30fps vs 60fps, some people just scream “IT NEEDS TO BE A FILM!!!!!” without really understanding that they are shooting digital.
No such color problems, no such white balance problems, no chemical development problems at all.
Different tools, different process and different workflow between film and digital. And yet small group of people try to recommend or push the idea that digital footage needs to be manipulated like it would be a film and processed like the film.
Like today in photography, RAW files from E-M1, GH4, A7(r/s) are just so flat by default that they need fixing to look good. While JPEG from E-M1 looks as finished image most of the time.
The “it needs to be flat” is like HDR in photography, it has places and usage but far far less often than it is wanted. And most often the HDR photogrpahy is done bad, unnatural way where edits are very well visible, photo looks weird or just grayish.
With photography with B/W film, there are opinions when doing prints, same print can look totally different done by two different photographers. Other can like to make contrasty shots where blacks are deep, and other use different paper and settings to get photo where there really isn’t anything black.
It is about style, so some people want gray video where there isn’t contrast, no blacks and whites and everything is covered with look like it was shot in haze.
It is their opinion, their artistic view or their believe. Take your pick.
At least I get wanted great looking footage with minimal post processing…. as no one is there forcing me to use “flat profile” all the time just because I should.
It takes s professional colorist to make a flat video look good. Coloring is an art form within itself. Your typical photographer turned videographer turned colorist is not going to posess those skills. I’m sure there are some exceptions out there though.
Exactly. But the point still stands what he made, you are wasting bandwidth to data that you are going to hide, instead while you could use it to capture more data from the visible parts that matters.
I know one person who is well known on business about color grading and I would never want to be doing his job. To me it is already enough to sit now and then few hours in color calibrated room with everything calibrated and feel chilly but doing that for hours every day etc… No thanks.
Wow. That skateboard video would have looked great if it wasn’t split up like that – totally annoying and distracting. Please render one without that 🙂 It looks like excellent footage.
Hello Mudstrom, this video was for Transworld’s “skate and create” contest. The requirement was to make something creative, and specifically not a normal skate edit. The idea was inspired by the mosaic-style art of David Hockney. Almost a “3D” and multi-cam array effect, but done in a mosaic style. I knew going forward with the idea that some people wouldn’t appreciate it and thats ok. Stepping out of the norm and creating something different is always a risk. But that was the point of this contest and I am personally very happy with the outcome. Again, I appreciate your opinions and am not here to change that. Just giving you a little more background on the video and my approach.
-Kyle Camarillo
It’s not that I don’t appreciate or respect it, I’m sorry to say it didn’t quite work (IMHO). I can certainly appreciate artistic editing, I have no issues with filters, effects or processing. I just really wanted to see the skateboarding, and the mosaic intersections often hid or interfered with the action. The skateboarding seems to have been secondary to the video, which is a shame when it’s actually a very graceful sport (though many don’t see it). But I do appreciate anything that brings attention to the MFT photo format and skateboarding as a whole, being an ex-skater myself 🙂
Well thanks for your opinion. I’m always open to criticism. You might like this video I did, it’s straight skateboarding: http://vimeo.com/114691072
Enjoy!
Now that is what I’m talking about my man, very nice camerawork! Great skating too!
Glad you liked it! Thanks!