I shot this interview with Composer Carlisle Floyd earlier this month for the Sarasota (Florida) Opera. Carlisle Floyd and "Of Mice and Men" - YouTube
Interviewer's questions shot after the interview. Three point lighting using tough frost and CTB to match daylight coming in large windows coming in from camera left. Sony 50mm 1.8 lens.

Looks and sounds very good Lee, can I ask what you used to record the audio? Also what preset did you use?
There is one thing I noticed which regards the exposure, could it be that it was a cloudy day and that the sun would appear/disappear again what had an influence on the incoming light? Just asking because at 06:05 the exposure was quite good but after that you can see it becoming brighter and brighter until his hair and face overexpose.

Hi Noa:
I used a Lectrosonics UHF wireless System with Tram TR50 mic. Yes it was a variably cloudy day and the daylight exposure changed with time. Would have been nice to have some flags to minimize the window, but this was a low budget shoot. Still I'm quite pleased with the 50's performance.

Good job Lee. Your goal was was obviously to make it so the "average viewer" would not know the kid was not there and you did that. Us video guys would know because we have been there done that. One of the glaring things to me is the audio reflections of the two rooms. And that is a very tough thing to deal with! But how many opera goers are going to hear audio reflections! Money matters, for low budget you did them well.

Steve

that's a great job thanks for sharing....

(Question if knee was tweaked a tiny bit would it have helped the over exposure of the upper left part of the subjects head? Perhaps knee adjustment may have been able to lessen that?)

JC

Good job Lee. Your goal was was obviously to make it so the "average viewer" would not know the kid was not there and you did that.

Steven,
Thanks for your feedback. Actually the "kid" interviewer was there. He conducted the interview with Carlisle and then we reversed the camera to film his questions. So it was all recorded in the same room. He does have a different microphone and that may the difference you hear. Tram TR50 on Carlisle and Sony ECM77 on the interviewer.

Question if knee was tweaked a tiny bit would it have helped the over exposure of the upper left part of the subjects head? Perhaps knee adjustment may have been able to lessen that?

Thanks Joel. I'll give that a try.

I used a Lectrosonics UHF wireless System with Tram TR50 mic.

Thx Lee for the info, about the exposure, it is easy though to see overexposure if you use zebra's, once they start to appear on the face you know you are loosing information in finer detail and you can correct by changing the iris,it's easier to correct underexposed footage then it is to correct overexposed, once it clips it's gone and you can't retrieve it anymore.

Thanks Noa. I'm very familiar with Zebras and exposure latitude. What happened is the interview started and I was surprised by the change in sun light. Also being used to cameras with actual iris rings, I was slow to get to the iris control to compensate. I should have stopped the interview to reset the scene, but our time with Maestro Floyd was limited so I decided to go with what we had.

Again, Lee, I am very impressed by the EA50. Enjoyed your work, as always!

Lee,

Good job of the "old one camera switch". I did think it was two locations because of the audio differences and the lack of any shot with both subjects.

And good for you for posting it. It is hard for me to post to an audience of other video guys. You know they are the ones that will notice the little things that the other audience won't. I have only put my stuff on here twice and I notice that percentage wise, VERY FEW members do post there work here.

I'll bet you made that kids week! I'm sure he is showing that clip to everyone that will watch it. That is the fun part of our job sometimes.

Steve

Lee, unless you did something in post, I do not see any moire on his shirt. Do I have that right? If so, great news for when the situation arises with folks wearing striped shirts.

I didn't do anything filtering for morie. Indeed I was impressed that his shirt didn't cause any problems. Shot with it on Monday and Tuesday and I'm pleased with the results.

Hi Lee

Yeah, very nicely shot too and the viewer would surely have no idea that the questions were done afterwards..timing was spot on!!

You never mention if the camera had a PP profile set (preset or custom) or was it set to "OFF" ...For general use I find the default "OFF" preset works really well 99% of the time.

Great job

Chris

Thanks for the kind words Chris. Set on PP 3 as I like ITU 709 Gamma.

Hi Lee

If you are doing any outdoor shoots once the Summer months arrive, just be careful using PP3 as your bright conditions tend to kill most of the chroma and you get a very washed out image... I found that PP3 is really nice for indoor shoots but you do need to ramp up the profile on bright Summer days or just set the profile to "OFF" ...The default does a good job outdoors!!! I do like PP3 for indoor shoots and use that for wedding receptions at night. The bright CineAble profile works well with full sun shoots but is a bit dark if you venture into open shade!

Chris

Chris:
Thanks for the advice on PP3. I shot some outdoors last week and it does look a bit washed out. I have a shoot next week at some universities and community colleges so I can try turing PP off on the exteriors.

Hi Lee

Noa has suggested PP5 for outdoors but his look and others may differ. I also remarked in another post that it's actually easier to up the saturation in post than to try to de-saturate footage in post.

I'm still looking for a mod to the existing presets that will give me a nice saturation in both bright sun and shade too without have to resort to one profile for sun and another for shade! Weddings are somewhat time managed so you need to be on the ball and often there is little time to fiddle with settings!

If I have some time tomorrow I might shoot a nice green outdoor scene with all profiles and then another in deep shade and see which looks best!!

Chris