Mark Toia
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Hello all,
We finished this TVC late last year and I thought I'd share the outcome.
http://www.zoomfilmtv.com.au/ftp/RED_test/Toia_Zoom_GGi_1280.mov
Shooting a person dressed in black, standing in snow in the middle of the day is a killer exposure test for any camera.
You need great (f-stop) range to retain detail in the snow as well the persons black wardrobe at the same time.
When I was first offered this project I did hesitate, I have shot 35mm in the snow a few times in the middle of the day and it came out with hot whites, great shots none the less but the sun hitting the snow is so white its hard to not have blown out whites. RED is no better than FILM with exposure latitude and to be honest I thought I'd end up with the same problem, if not worse.
I took the plunge and said to everyone, Lets go for it and shoot this thing on RED.
What we came back with was amazing, We had detail everywhere, So much so the we even crushed the finished grade a little bit to give it a bit of grit and extra contrast and still the whites and blacks hung in there.
The cameras did wig out when we were at 12,000 feet doing hand held aerial shots of the stunty jumping out of the heli. The hard drives were locking up momentarily at -20 degrees c , when we got to 0 c degrees all was okay again. Other than that the cameras worked flawlessly.
Once again what amazed me most was the detail in the snow and the blacks the actor was wearing. In our final 2k master you can literally see the actual snow crystals on the ground.
I went back to and old ad we shot on 35mm a couple of years ago and there was NO detail in the snow at all. Same conditions.
With the MX chip coming out, wow! seriously, like do we need it! yes...... we do.:smiley:
Have a nice day all.
PS. Please excuse this quality of this small compressed H264 quicktime movie, detail is not there compared to the final master.
Id like to post the 4gig 2k version to show you all the amazing detail, but the download time would be ridiculous.
enjoy
http://www.zoomfilmtv.com.au/ftp/RED_test/Toia_Zoom_GGi_1280.mov
We finished this TVC late last year and I thought I'd share the outcome.
http://www.zoomfilmtv.com.au/ftp/RED_test/Toia_Zoom_GGi_1280.mov
Shooting a person dressed in black, standing in snow in the middle of the day is a killer exposure test for any camera.
You need great (f-stop) range to retain detail in the snow as well the persons black wardrobe at the same time.
When I was first offered this project I did hesitate, I have shot 35mm in the snow a few times in the middle of the day and it came out with hot whites, great shots none the less but the sun hitting the snow is so white its hard to not have blown out whites. RED is no better than FILM with exposure latitude and to be honest I thought I'd end up with the same problem, if not worse.
I took the plunge and said to everyone, Lets go for it and shoot this thing on RED.
What we came back with was amazing, We had detail everywhere, So much so the we even crushed the finished grade a little bit to give it a bit of grit and extra contrast and still the whites and blacks hung in there.
The cameras did wig out when we were at 12,000 feet doing hand held aerial shots of the stunty jumping out of the heli. The hard drives were locking up momentarily at -20 degrees c , when we got to 0 c degrees all was okay again. Other than that the cameras worked flawlessly.
Once again what amazed me most was the detail in the snow and the blacks the actor was wearing. In our final 2k master you can literally see the actual snow crystals on the ground.
I went back to and old ad we shot on 35mm a couple of years ago and there was NO detail in the snow at all. Same conditions.
With the MX chip coming out, wow! seriously, like do we need it! yes...... we do.:smiley:
Have a nice day all.
PS. Please excuse this quality of this small compressed H264 quicktime movie, detail is not there compared to the final master.
Id like to post the 4gig 2k version to show you all the amazing detail, but the download time would be ridiculous.
enjoy
http://www.zoomfilmtv.com.au/ftp/RED_test/Toia_Zoom_GGi_1280.mov
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