Had the opportunity to shoot in NYC recently. I don't often shoot up there as I'm located near Philly and mostly do gigs around that area. The wedding took place at the Plaza Hotel located directly across from the ultra-cool underground Manhattan Apple store. Of course I had to include a shot of it in the estabs. :)

http://www.gmelliottvideography.com/satnicktrailer.mov

PS This Chris Brown song has been very popular with brides since that youtube video of the dancing precessional....that, or it's just pure coincidence. Needless to say the music was the bride's choice.

looks great man! love the treatment you have done with your titles.

Nice work Glen - always look forward to seeing your stuff so thanks for sharing.

Very tight edit and great time shifting. The opening speech with the sand was superb.

Did you use any external lighting at all? Looked like it was all available light and looked really good.

Cheers,

Matt.

P.S. It was a really sloooow download for me. I'm not on a super fast connection - 1.5MB/s but it seemed to max out around 20kb/s.

Well done, I really enjoyed it!!

Nice work Glen - always look forward to seeing your stuff so thanks for sharing.

Very tight edit and great time shifting. The opening speech with the sand was superb.

Did you use any external lighting at all? Looked like it was all available light and looked really good.

Cheers,

Matt.

P.S. It was a really sloooow download for me. I'm not on a super fast connection - 1.5MB/s but it seemed to max out around 20kb/s.

Good call- yes no additional light was used at all. Thanks for watching!

looks great man! love the treatment you have done with your titles.

Thanks Scott! Hey how are you- long time no speak!

Beautiful work. Fabulous location. Just very nice... great job, Glen!

Glen,

What were yourcamera settings. Did you have to bump up the gain levels?

Beautiful work. Fabulous location. Just very nice... great job, Glen!

Hey, thanks Bill.

Glen,

What were yourcamera settings. Did you have to bump up the gain levels?

Yes most (if not all) of the reception footage was shot at +12db and 1/24th shutter.

wow +12, how did you avoid all the grain and the streaking withthe 1/24 setting?

Glen...

I still remember a thread you commented on a couple months ago about having to push your camera to the limits in low light. You pull it off so well and this video was a wonderful example on backing up your words.

I loved it...

Steve

Amazing wedding and fantastic editing. But what impressed me most, was the fact that you have these results by using the camera at its very limits. It looks so smooth for 1/24!

To be fair the footage and full resolution does have quite a bit more visible grain in it. The Ceremony was quite possibly the darkest environment I've ever shot in. Of course I was pushing the camera as far as I'm comfortable then pushing the mid-tones and highlights (standard color corrector) in post.

One of the unsung benefits to downconversion to SD DVD (and web) is it seems to help smooth noise out via the down-conversion. PS One of the keys to good low light performance is to NOT use any noise-reduction filters in camera.

"PS One of the keys to good low light performance is to NOT use any noise-reduction filters in camera."

hmmmm could you explain that in more detail Glen?

Glen, do you ever use plugins such as "neat video" to remove the grain? I've heard this plugin works wonders for removing grain.

I agree. Neat Video does a miraculous job at removing grain. It's a little bit slow but what could we expect from such powerful software?

"PS One of the keys to good low light performance is to NOT use any noise-reduction filters in camera."

hmmmm could you explain that in more detail Glen?

The built in noise-reduction filters only hurt the image quality. I never use them. I simply open my iris, push the gain to +12, and slow the shutter to 1/24th.

There WILL be visible grain with this method- however I find most of it is smoothed out via interpolation from the downconversion to SD DVD.

Glen, do you ever use plugins such as "neat video" to remove the grain? I've heard this plugin works wonders for removing grain.

I'll have to look into it- I've never used any sort of noise reduction filters on video before. However if it's anything like it is in photoshop it sounds like it make take some time to render!