It looks nice, shallow DOF helps, shooting cars is a blast, just had a job, doing a video on Freelander2, that was the best job of my life!

Thanks Oleg,

Will you be posting any samples?

I certainly will put couple of 2 min, clips, need couple of days to finish them up.

XLH1 'Dark' Andy Lunn experiment
 

Well we have all seen the beautiful landscape shots from these cameras, so I thought I would try an experiment, Use the same footage but colour, grade, and alter the music to give two completley different looks and feel.

Here is my first piece I call 'Dark' I will post 'Light' when i get round to doing some editing :) Hope you like it, all feedback very appreicated, its how we all learn our craft.

cheers.

Andy Lunn

http://www.media73.co.uk/videos/Dark...DQ640x360.html

hmm when i paste the url the forum changes it v strange http://www.media73.co.uk/videos/Dark...DQ640x360.html

Cant edit original post. Link should be

http://www.media73.co.uk/videos/Transam/

Hello,

I watched your film and I think you need a hug.

I like the look and composition of most of the video in the piece. There were a few places where I felt the editing was forced and a couple of shots that seemed unnecessarily shaky. Overall, I think you should work out a better story around the poetry for your next feature ("Light" I believe). You have many beautiful shots, but the video needs to go from somewhere to somewhere in order for the editing to gain greater meaning. You could, for example, introduce a character. It doesn't have to be a person (could be nature), but something for you to tell a story around and sequence shots to. You may also want to incorporate more natural sound to help the narrative along when transitioning between the lines of poetry. Just a couple of things I thought of when I watched the video.

Again, the pictures are nice and I always enjoy the idea of using poetry in a story (evil sounding or not). Good luck,

Thanks Cale all comments appreciated. I didnt actually shoot this for this perpous I had the footage and thought what could I do different to the usual, classical music and flowing transitions.

I may actually reshoot with a purpose and try it again.

Thanks again, all comments very appreciated.

Andy.

Andy,

Great concept. I think you can take it much further. I think it would be more powerful with female narration. Something like a "mother nature" figure gone haywire. If you are planning to re-shoot some scenes then maybe a few very blurred shots of the mother nature figure in medevil costume moving thru the scenes.

Regards,

"LUKE!" huuuuu, haaaaa "I am, your Father" :D

Comparison XL H! and XL 2
 

I will be giving a talk to a local birding group about videotaping birds. I would like to be able to show a side-by-side comparison of two close-up still frames taken of the same subject (preferably a bird) with the same lenses using the XL-2 and XL H1. I do not have access to an XL H1, so cannot do it myself. If anyone has two such frames, and would like to let me use them (acknowledgement given, of course), please contact me off the board at
sv4birds@yahoo.com.

Thanks,

Steve Siegel

Miami, FL

H1 Product Video/commercial
 

Here it is, my very first REAL video with the H1 at work. I was given the direction to think of a movie genre to make the video more entertaining than just a normal product video. We decided on 'Mobster' movie because of the product name... the Eliminator. I worked with my boss writing the video/ad. I did the story board, casting, directing, lighting, filming, and all the editing. Let me know what you think.

http://www.kiukle.com/temp/eliminator.wmv
30 megs

Sorry for the WMV I seem to have forgotten how to export mov's while keeping the file size acceptable.

Our WEIRD Heinz Contest Entry
 

Fun way to waste a Saturday morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVFsW7VE38

Hello,

I think you did a nice job. It's always good to see creative approaches in advertising. Lighting and a couple of pace issues are the two things I'd like to see tweaked. Darker, hazy, musty, smokey daylight style lighting would help the mob look and feel. As it is, the scenes are too clean, but I guess maybe that aids the focus of the product. Some of the angles from the opening sequence matched too closely (medium to medium). I noticed that you have a great range of tight and medium shots once the product showed up. Overall I liked the approach and the video has a quality feel to it.

Good work,

Hey did you use any adapters on that commercial?

Uncompressed XL-H1 w/mini35 and Zeiss Superspeed CinePrimes
 

Alright, I've compressed an H.264 for my website of some quick clips that you guys can check out. It is in the portfolio section, under "Uncompressed Footage."

I will try to get a short couple second clip up for download so you can see the video in full quality.

The clip posted is from a film trailer I shot back last spring. It should give an indication of what the camera is capable of when taking advantage of its capabilities.

Very nice!

Love how well the colors came out. What did you use to edit/color grade?

Thanks.

That footage is actually not graded at all ... it is the Raw straight from the camera.

Wow.

That sums up my opinion. ;)

*goes back to fighting with 3 way color corrector*

Hello Michael,

Great images...

Give us some hints for set ups...

We got the same set, XL-H1 and Mini35 but 300 seires.

Take, Care

CQ.

H1, PS mini35, Zeiss 100mm F2 lens test
 

I did a quick test with the above gear, really enjoyed the results!
Please let me know what you think!

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

Oleg -
That is Beautiful!

(obviously you are not just using the viewfinder to focus:)

John, Thank You!
To be honest, I only used a stock viewfinder...

I have to admit that when there is less to focus on, like with 100mm macro lens, it's in a way easier to focus, just going between "no focus" points, however if the goal is to pull the focus to a moving object, or a different spot it may become a problem, a HiDef monitor is a must!

Regards, Oleg.

Posted in wrong forum - sorry.

30sec spot Beauty Salon
 

I re post it from P+S forum, to also promote H1 :)
A low budget commercial, directed/DP,

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

Please share the comments.
CHeers!

Very nice, Oleg.

By the way, I have been using your "Oleg Warm" preset for two years. It is my favorite preset for warm, saturated tones.

Thanks for sharing.

Low budget but not low quality :) I thought it was great, very creative, nice color. Did you use a adapter to get the small DOF or did you zoom in? Thought that low shot when those guys came in the door was great, also the one were they were leaning against eachother and moved sideways to expose the light spot.

Did you use a lot of extra light to film this? How many people were involved shooting this?

Patrick and Noa, I really appreciate your comments!

I had two sources of light, one was HMI 5600K joker bug 800 wt, another Fosqi, similar to Kinoflo, (it's in the shot) you can see it breefly, I used mini35mm adapter, I had an assistant and 1 grip guy, so three of us did it all.
It took I'd say 4 hours to get all the shots done, I have not seen the place before the shoot, so it took some trial and error to move the lights around and get best exposure, still I think lighting could've been better, but the client is really happy it turned out, it
actually was transferred to 35 mm film to show it in local cinema! I look forward to watch it in the theater!

Trailer to my short film up
 

I have a trailer to a short film I shot with the XLH1, that I am working on at
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...rneProductions. ("Seventeen Golden Summers") I edited with Final Cut Pro and Color.

...I also have another clip there that I did the day I got my canon, called "Jackie and Jake". (Big difference since I didn't know what I was doing yet!)

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.

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).

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?

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.

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

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.

Clumber Park
 

An outing to my local park this morning.

http://exposureroom.com/members/poch...b358af4dc318f/

It looks very relaxing, great choice of music, nice.
I recalled reading that most of British rock stars live in that area, is it true?

Hi, Oleg,

You're maybe thinking of Richmond Park in London. There's no rock stars around here. Just rocks :0)

Faithworks of the Inner City
 

This is just a video shot entirely on the Canon XLH1. Just wanting to share with others as I have learned so much from this forum...

Thanks everyone!

This is a private video on Vimeo

Sorry... It's a public file now...

Nice work. Did you shoot and edit this as well? What really stands out to me in this piece is not just the footage, but the audio and spot on editing. It has a very nice story telling flow to it, capped off with a compelling call-to-action.

I liked it this one a lot.

Can anyone upload a live concert video clip?
 

From the Canon XL-H1 ?