Topic: Recent Professional Works (Read 1612233 times)

JoeKitchen · « **Reply #2960 on:** March 29, 2011, 10:29:06 am »

Here are some more shots from the same building I posted before. I've been exploring not correcting the vertical perspective lately, just for fun. Would love to know what you think.

shaun · « **Reply #2961 on:** March 29, 2011, 12:59:15 pm »

Hi Joe

I think 1 & 2 work well though IMHO 3 doesn't really benefit.

Shaun

BobDavid · « **Reply #2962 on:** March 29, 2011, 09:23:05 pm »

I shot this glass French Bulldog figurine with a Hasselblad CF39-MS back and an HC120 macro lens. Of course, a little Photoshop was thrown into the mix. If you are interested in glass French Bulldog curios and or dogs in general, check out my blog entry on the little glass dog: http://topdogimaging.net/blog/glass-french-bulldog-figurine

Abdulrahman Aljabri · « **Reply #2963 on:** March 30, 2011, 12:12:20 pm »

Quote from: JoeKitchen on March 29, 2011, 10:29:06 am

Here are some more shots from the same building I posted before. I've been exploring not correcting the vertical perspective lately, just for fun. Would love to know what you think.

#1 is really nice. I prefer the original for #2

JoeKitchen · « **Reply #2964 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:14:18 pm »

Quote from: Abdulrahman Aljabri on March 30, 2011, 12:12:20 pm

#1 is really nice. I prefer the original for #2

Thanks, I think I prefer the other #2 as well.

AndreNapier · « **Reply #2965 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:23:55 pm »

I have not posted any images lately. Here is a few from our studio book showing couple backgrounds in our new Chicago studio. We have a total of 22 permanent setups. It took over two years to build them.
http://HeadshotPhotographyChicago.com

bcooter · « **Reply #2966 on:** April 04, 2011, 04:42:01 am »

fredjeang · « **Reply #2967 on:** April 04, 2011, 10:34:53 am »

Quote from: jsch on April 04, 2011, 10:06:20 am

I don't really hear/see the connection between Paris and the song.

It works better here: "... Michelle ma belle – These are words that go together well, – My Michelle, ..."

Best,
Johannes

Oh please Johannes, as a former parisian we suffer enough for this Paris cliché. No, Paris is not only Piaf and Moulin rouge but a modern international city. No more piaf and squeeze box, please. No Michelle ma douce belle...brrr...I'm allergic again. Actually the blues and jazz scene is (or was) very good. Thank god BC didn't fall in the french song trap.

feppe · « **Reply #2968 on:** April 04, 2011, 08:23:35 pm »

Quote from: bcooter on April 04, 2011, 04:42:01 am

Early trailer.

http://www.russellrutherford.com/musician_trailer/

BC

Watched it several times. Loved the music, cast looks good, great lighting throughout! Now on to the critique, hope this helps and is not too harsh...

I assume this is supposed to be a fictional short movie, but the trailer gave not even a hint of what it's about, other than a musician with some random ladies and photography - it's more of a teaser.

I'm not a fan of slowmo done in post at all, and this one is jerky. Some pans and zooms were too fast and/or abrupt. Even with the current bitrate there's some very heavy artifacting in shadows and in the last shot in .qt versions, while .wmv was squeaky clean. Bad encoding/er or poor codec? Also, the frame-rate seems to be different in .qt and .wmv, why is that - just curious. Some shots have a very distinct video-look probably mostly due to frame-rate but not gone in the .wmv version, not appealing to me.

You might want to consider limiting the bitrate or increasing bandwidth: I was getting only ~250KB/sec which meant pretty long loading times. Quicktime streaming didn't work with Firefox 4.0, Chrome 10 or Opera - or it took longer to start than downloading the entire clip did. WMV worked fine, but took forever to buffer. Downloaded clip didn't open in Windows Quicktime. No audio with Zoomplayer. VLC Player and Media Player Classic worked. Have codecs up the wazoo installed. Win 7 64.

Finally, a heads up of a French legal curiosity in case you weren't aware: Eiffel tower lighting is copyrighted.

gazwas · « **Reply #2969 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:17:18 am »

Quote from: bcooter on April 04, 2011, 04:42:01 am

Early trailer.

http://www.russellrutherford.com/musician_trailer/

BC

I tried to watch it but the streaming was SOOOoo slow I gave up..... sorry!

fredjeang · « **Reply #2970 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:44:31 am »

Curious, it was pretty much straightforward to buffer in my case.

The Eiffel Tower copyrights Feppe mentionned is super important. There was 2 takes and one was perfectly safe (the view from the roofs) but one could lead to probs (and it was the coolest).

Best luck with the trailer.

bcooter · « **Reply #2971 on:** April 05, 2011, 01:41:40 pm »

Now I know how Michael Bay feels, except his buildings are larger than mine and I don't have the budget for Transformers 3.

Anyway, teaser is a better word than trailer and I guess I should explain this is an ongoing project that will be shot in three separate parts of the world.

With our current schedule it might be a year before we finally get to finish on this.

The next section moves to Los Angeles and golly gee, I guess I'll have to show the cliche Sunset Blvd. and a few palm trees. Maybe I should shoot in Bakersfield but hmm, it really isn't as interesting as Hollywood though.

As far as the copyright mention, we have people working on that now and it will be arranged for before we get to release.

Anyway, thanks for the comments, I learn from all.

IMO

BC

Rob C · « **Reply #2972 on:** April 05, 2011, 02:55:56 pm »

Well that's a teaser all right: I did manage to download it - about forty minutes, maybe - and it wouldn't show either. I've got Quick Time and also Real Player, Windows Internet Explorer and broadband, but nada.

Knowing your vision (from your website) I feel robbed of a great experience!

;-(

Rob C

feppe · « **Reply #2973 on:** April 05, 2011, 03:21:08 pm »

Quote from: Rob C on April 05, 2011, 02:55:56 pm

Well that's a teaser all right: I did manage to download it - abut forty minutes, maybe - and it wouldn't show either. I've got Quick Time and also Real Player, Windows Internet Explorer and broadband, but nada.

Knowing your vision (from your website) I feel robbed of a great experience!

;-(

Rob C

Try VLC player, it's free and plays pretty much everything you throw at it.

pixjohn · « **Reply #2974 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:10:49 pm »

You removed the link? I wanted to see how the red camera looked.

fredjeang · « **Reply #2975 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:41:27 pm »

Quote from: pixjohn on April 05, 2011, 04:10:49 pm

You removed the link? I wanted to see how the red camera looked.

there are plenty over the web to give you an idea, like this one: http://www.redoneflorida.com/samples.php

Or here: etc...there are thousands

also an Arri Alexa footage:

See that the Ks are not the only thing. Both systems are pretty impressive but to me the Arri despite having less K is in another league but costs also much more as expected. Red is really a good investment price/top-quality Raw

Graham Mitchell · « **Reply #2976 on:** April 07, 2011, 07:01:28 am »

From yesterday. Both taken with the 110mm f2, iirc.

dergiman · « **Reply #2977 on:** April 07, 2011, 10:03:19 am »

Very nice, Graham!

Frank Doorhof · « **Reply #2978 on:** April 09, 2011, 03:44:32 am »

We're back from Photoshop world, still a bit jetlagged but wanted to share these.
More on http://www.frankdoorhof.com/site/?p=1680

Graham Mitchell · « **Reply #2979 on:** April 19, 2011, 07:33:02 pm »

One from today in Cape Town, shot with 110m f2 @f4, iirc.

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