A newborn baby story, shot with 35mm optics

Oleg Kalyan · June 30th, 2008, 08:20 AM

I had a great chance to do a family video of a mother and her two kids,
Please let me know what you think.

http://olegkalyan.ru/_Quicktime/BabyMichel.mov

56мb.

Colin McDonald · June 30th, 2008, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg Kalyan

I had a great chance to do a family video of a mother and her two kids,
Please let me know what you think.

http://olegkalyan.ru/_Quicktime/BabyMichel.mov

56мb.

Lovely shots, as we have come to expect from you! I think you could actually have done with more DOF in the close ups - there's quite a lot of footage that just looks out of focus to me. I know that's the point of the 35mm optics and it works well in the mid shots, but the DOF is so narrow in the close ups that I would say it's a problem in places.

By the way, this is a double post and you are very naughty (wags finger).

Oleg Kalyan · July 1st, 2008, 12:07 AM

Colin, thank you.

I have done the shots with lowest possible DOF on purpose, also consider that everything was shot with available light, in some shots I could close down F/T stop,
the idea was if something significant in focus it's good, to isolate what can be seen in shot to make it more significant.

"By the way, this is a double post and you are very naughty (wags finger)" ???

Do you mean that I also post it in show work thread?

Colin McDonald · July 1st, 2008, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg Kalyan

Colin, thank you.

I have done the shots with lowest possible DOF on purpose, also consider that everything was shot with available light, in some shots I could close down F/T stop,
the idea was if something significant in focus it's good, to isolate what can be seen in shot to make it more significant.

It just seems to me that towards the beginning there are a few moments when NONE of the frame is in focus. For instance, the fourth shot (the baby from over the shoulder of his mother at 00:13:00). Maybe it's deliberate and I am missing the point? I could understand an overall soft focus effect being appropriate to this content but I am having difficulty with only the ends of toes and very small sections of faces being featured :-)

Sorry to be so negative here - I am a great fan of your work as you know.

Quote:

"By the way, this is a double post and you are very naughty (wags finger)" ???

Do you mean that I also post it in show work thread?

Sorry, perhaps I should have said "cross post" - I thought we were not allowed to post the same message to 2 different forums.

Oleg Kalyan · July 1st, 2008, 01:27 AM

Colin, thanks again,
I see what you mean, yes I am aware that for a moment during transition complete shot may be out of focus, that's the idea, instead of using soft FX transition, I used original footage for that purpose.

Didn't know that not allowed to cross post, will delete, or moderator please do so in show my work section.

June 30th, 2008, 08:20 AM	#1
Oleg Kalyan Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: MOSCOW Posts: 448	A newborn baby story, shot with 35mm optics I had a great chance to do a family video of a mother and her two kids, Please let me know what you think. http://olegkalyan.ru/_Quicktime/BabyMichel.mov 56мb.

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July 1st, 2008, 12:07 AM	#3
Oleg Kalyan Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: MOSCOW Posts: 448	Colin, thank you. I have done the shots with lowest possible DOF on purpose, also consider that everything was shot with available light, in some shots I could close down F/T stop, the idea was if something significant in focus it's good, to isolate what can be seen in shot to make it more significant. "By the way, this is a double post and you are very naughty (wags finger)" ??? Do you mean that I also post it in show work thread?

July 1st, 2008, 01:27 AM	#5
Oleg Kalyan Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: MOSCOW Posts: 448	Colin, thanks again, I see what you mean, yes I am aware that for a moment during transition complete shot may be out of focus, that's the idea, instead of using soft FX transition, I used original footage for that purpose. Didn't know that not allowed to cross post, will delete, or moderator please do so in show my work section.