Recent Professional Works

[James R Russell]

In keeping with tradition, a film shot with a medium format camera

http://www.russellrutherford.com/video/


Shot with Contax and p21+

JR

[fredjeang]

Are you able to watch the video link guys? Got a blank page.

[Rob C]

Won't load for me, James.

Rob C

[James R Russell]

quicktime is now very computer, operating system dependent.  It loads on firefox on one of our machines, on safari on all of our machines, firewfox on one machine.

I'll look into it later, I'm getting on a plane.

J.

[ChristopherBarrett]

No Probs here... that was good fun.  I figured it was going to be timelapse.  I did one recently of my son where I put the D3 on Continuous High and just told him to act goofy.  Oh.... maybe there's a reason for me not to eBay the Nikon afterall...

[Craig Lamson]

On win7 here..do a save target as and run from the saved file..works great.

[James R Russell]

Loved the audio, loved the visual, not entirely convinced by the audio-visual.

thax I think

now you know why Stallone never let's the critics pre screen.

JR

[haefnerphoto]

thax I think

now you know why Stallone never let's the critics pre screen.

JR

Fashion is so much more fun than cars!!!!!

[cyberean]

In keeping with tradition, a film shot with a medium format camera

Loved the audio, loved the visual, not entirely convinced by the audio-visual.

+1 ...
though it's the client's convincing that matters

[jduncan]

I just updated my website (this was really long, long overdue - over 2-3 years) with over 150 new images.
Welcome!:)

Excellent news. 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I just updated my website (this was really long, long overdue - over 2-3 years) with over 150 new images.
Welcome!:)

Michael,
Your work has a clarity of vision and classical elegance that I find breathtaking. I've only had a chance to do a brief visit, but I'll be back when I have more time. Thanks for the update.

Eric

[MichaelEzra]

Thank you, Eric

[Dick Roadnight]

Is this FF 24*36? ...I would have thought you would have had more DOF.

I would focus on the shoulder/neck and re-compose to get the hair sharp and the cheeks soft, then mask and sharpen the eyes.

[fredjeang]

This is actually a 720 movie frame that I projected on a big screen and then extracted a 12Mp file at 300ppp. (what you see is reduced to 72ppp and 1000px for the web)
The top image is the original frame where the screen pattern is visible, and the bottom img is a quick retouching where I played with noise and satr to give it a different feeling.
The shallow dof is on purpose because I used a 200mm if I remember I was filming this sequence at f4 with manual lens. (maybe F5.6, I was open anyway)
I could have taken any other frame where focus the point is slightly different.

This is NOT a commercial still of course.

The interesting thing if MFD makers finally join the movie is to be able to reach these short D.O.F but with wider focal. He he...

[BobDavid]

Nice sky last night.

[BrendanStewart]

Disclaimer; we do mostly weddings.  H3DII-31

[Frank Doorhof]

Love the first one Brendan.
Second is also great but first is a stunner.

[NickCroken]

From a shoot earlier this week.  I also shot some with small format but the colours weren't quite the same.  This was my first time shooting cars with a medium format system and I must say that I am extremely impressed with how well the lenses handled the headlights.  My small format glass gives me crazy flare where as the hasselblad lenses rendered the headlights perfectly.

[haefnerphoto]

Nice shot Nick!

[NickCroken]

Nice shot Nick!

Thank you very much James.  Hearing that from you means a lot!