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Salt Flats running vid.
5DMII, Steadicam, a short bit of helicam.
Salt Flats on Vimeo |
Some interesting and fun shots, which I think is what this forum is mostly about, so good marks there.
I would have edited it very differently, though. Still, your camera, your shots, your rig(s) and the model are all tops. |
Nice footage. (And I liked the editing.)
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Nice footage Derek. How are you able to estimate focusing distances when using the 5D MKII on the Merlin? Just set it and forget it or how do you pull focus?
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Kudos to you for getting such a variety of shots of a single subject. Very nicely done, smooth camera/heli work and follow-focus. I got tired just watching that runner...how many miles did you make her go?
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Very nice indeed. Care to share your Merlin setup? looks like you've got it really well balanced.
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1. Bottom-3 weights plus finishing weight 2. Mid-1 finishing weight. |
Thanks Derek, did you find it easy to use? what kind of success rate did you have with it?
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Derek, impressive. I've had my Merlin for months and I would still struggle to get results like yours while running, are you using an arm and vest too?
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Ah, that explains it. The good old Tahoe, I spent the whole Iraq war driving round in the desert in a rental Tahoe, brings back memories!
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Derek,
The video wouldn't play for me on vimeo...very interested to see it. Could you give us some specs on your remote helicam? Sounds pretty cool. Thanks, Chad |
Chad,
The heli is a small electric with 600mm blades (Trex) with a custom front mount. It weighs about 13lbs in flight. |
Very interesting how you kept your lady's colours of skin, hair & gear accurate, while the desert was blown out but the background hills and sky stayed in reasonable colour. The 5D2 manual might tell me how you did it but have you time to tell me the technique?
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Brendan,
We were shooting from Noon to 4pm with the sun very high in the sky. The salt flats are very much pure white, obviously because it is all salt. So meter for the skin tones or just slightly above and the rest gets clipped. The hills in the background are very dark brown to nearly black which again helps with an almost bichromatic landscape. |
That is helpful Derek, thanks.
Now I'm getting serious about investing in 5D2, especially after seeing how you retained image quality (after Vimeo) with your Triathletes. At a range of distances it was possible to see muscles moving even in sepia ... could help me get and hold sharp focus of big birdflight. I must read up about follow focus/peaking/zebra lines or whatever else might help ... your suggestions could be precious to me and others? |
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The camera does well before you record though. It has 5x and 10x magnification, which helps you mark your focus points. You can take a photo and check the histogram to check levels and confirm that the color balance isn't ridiculous. One of the strongest features - if you are brave enough and have enough time to use it - is the custom picture profiles. You can take a RAW photo, tweak it with the profile editor and save it in the camera. That processing then occurs in the 14-bit domain, before the h.264 encoding. You can tweak sharpness, contrast, tone and saturation, mess with the luma curve, and select certain color regions to modify. It's challenging though. You might approach the luma curve or color corrector with a certain vision, but the software often doesn't let you get there from here. That said, if you can master the custom profiles, you can potentially get very close to your desired look. You can then make fine adjustments in the 8-bit domain, rather than trying to push too few bits too far. |
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What's the longest lens/focal you use on the Helicam/MKII? Or do you just keep it all super wide? Cheers, Jeff |
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Speaking of which, here's the latest on the 5D MkII shutter: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-eos...part-ii-6.html And you can see my first exploration into shutter speeds here : Canon 5D Mark II Shutter Exposed on Vimeo I've done more tests, and plan another video, in time.... |
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