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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Rajan Parrikar on September 26, 2009, 10:04:54 pm

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on September 26, 2009, 10:04:54 pm

Starts this Sunday, and is directed by Ken Burns.

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks (http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks)

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: DarkPenguin on September 29, 2009, 12:24:13 am

Did they shoot this thing on film?

Someone buy the blu ray version and let me know if it is worth getting.

I have a bunch of the Roosevelt and Muir images from the LoC.  Nice to know the story behind them.

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: JeffKohn on September 29, 2009, 11:40:56 am

Quote from: DarkPenguin

Did they shoot this thing on film?

It's shot on 16mm film, and looks a bit grainy at times. The HD broadcast looks good but not great, I certainly wouldn't call it reference material.

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: Peter McLennan on September 29, 2009, 11:02:03 pm

The word "pompous" frequently came to mind during show #1.
Tepid music.  Very unlike KB.
Some very nice time-lapse of the Tetons, though.

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: DarkPenguin on September 29, 2009, 11:05:01 pm

I really liked the way they revealed Denali.  (Although it did remind me of the Powersauce guys showing Homer the Murderhorn on an old Simpson's episode.)

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: DesW on September 30, 2009, 05:05:31 am

Quote from: Parrikar

Starts this Sunday, and is directed by Ken Burns.

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks (http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks)

Take a look at David's version-- the timelapse is incredible

http://iasos.com/detalist/timeless-dvd/ (http://iasos.com/detalist/timeless-dvd/)

DesW

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: DarkPenguin on October 01, 2009, 11:25:52 am

Tavis Smiley interview with Ken Burns on the mini series...

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archiv...0915_burns.html (http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200909/20090915_burns.html)

Title: PBS series on America's national parks
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on October 04, 2009, 04:09:31 pm

It was a splendid series, the narrative put together quite beautifully.  Kudos to Ken Burns and Dayton Duncun.  It was above all a story of America's capacity for "error detection and correction" - ploughing through initial uncertainty, missteps and folly, but eventually bringing the idea to fruition.