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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

" EPOCH " Shot by Christopher Probst on RED MONSTRO 8K

Cool Scot! I always admired that about you. Try to go through the ASC feed chronologically, as I had a series of posts that build upon the previous. It'll be worth the trouble. Also, I had already exhausted TONS of material in my own feed,so there's a lot of good stuff in both.
 
Christopher Probst said:
Scot, they are freekin NOVELS there. I'm not about to "sum up" for ya... BUT, you're in for a long read my friend. Shouldn't be too hard to find my posts, they were last month on the ASC's feed.
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Found it....a treasure trove...thanks man.
 
Wow! Amazing imagery and amazing work!

Love the look (Monstro + Zeiss Ana) the locations, the grade, the everything really, amazing work Christopher!!

Just was surely not expecting that kinda of an ending, I guess pretty girls can not always be the heroes, some times they just are plain bad ass BAD GIRL. . . Not in a good way!!

Thanks Jarred and team for this piece of great work, shit looked like was a trailer off a Blockbuster Movie about to come out on Theaters!


Oh, and thanks also for all the BTS goodies Chris, always love those :)
 
My pleasure Ketch. You basically hit the nail on the head of what we were going for!
 
Encoding to YouTube with clean footage can be tricky... noise usually helps kill banding at the expense of , well, noise. But YouTube does have its own codec with some dials that can help, it’s just a lot of trial and error. Vimeo throws bits at the problem but at the expense of a pretty horrible user experience, but there are tricks to that too which chris and rich have mastered.

I vote for frame.io to start their own playback engine for presentation :)
 
Jarred, it would be better to offer a HEVC 10 bits master file to download, on Wetransfer or other. This would do justice to this wonderful work ;-)

Kristin
 
Wow!! This is amazing! :)
Love the mood, location, cast and cinematography!
The Monstro with those anamorphics are absolutely perfect and I think the FD’s look really, really great too.
What a brilliant showcase!
 
Thanks for sharing Chris.
Must be very rewarding to get to work on your own thing rather than someone else project.
Would love to hear a little more about the coloring in post and what your thoughts were on a couple of the setups as far as did all you do on locations translate to post or did you find some new Easter eggs on color temp and other things that you ending up embracing in post.
 
Chris... Wow, as always your cinematography is top notch.

Loved it. A few moments reminded me of "The Duellists".
 
Again Chris thank you for giving us all here so much of yourself and your great talent.

I was going to shoot some test stuff on my Monstro to sell Michael Bay on the camera for our next film (no not a Transformers) but I may just watch yours at RSH and then get Bay a 4K version for his Barco laser home theater!
 
That was incredibly well executed. Love the lens mix for a good reason. The production value. The VFX. If someone doesn't pick this up for a franchise or a series, they are sound asleep.
Also love the well controlled handheld, not shaky cam as you usually see. Tastefully lit, well framed, and a good story to boot. Bravo!
And also, big props to your focus puller. Often a thankless job, he kept it all sharp in that razor thin DOF.
 
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It seems intuitive that as sensor performance increases, more nuances will shine through that would have been "rounded off" (technically or perceptually) by older tech. This should further stoke the desire to shoot on optics with "personality" as more of their texture/micro-geometry should read in the image. Look forward to getting my eyes on actual footy to see how it plays.

Cheers - #19
 
Chris,

I see in some of your BTS stills that you played around with your ISO settings...... Was that for monitoring purposes and also what OLPF did you have in J's camera?
 
Peter Lyons Collister said:
Chris,

I see in some of your BTS stills that you played around with your ISO settings...... Was that for monitoring purposes and also what OLPF did you have in J's camera?
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Peter, I can on into an in-depth discussion on my feelings of digital exposure and the concept of "native" ISO... In short. my exposure method and ISO choice is content and contrast dependant. I factor in what is most important for me to retain information and detail and how I want to protect my digital encoding and separate myself from any potential noise... So there is no set ISO for me. Next time at the clubhouse I'd love to go into more detail for ya...
 
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