First grabs from RED newbie :)

[Brandon Fraley]

So I'm just some dude who shot some cool stuff on a DVX100 and now I have this completely ridiculous tool and I have no idea what I'm doing! But I grab a light, a keychain LED, and a buddy and I get to work!

I'm amazed at what I was able to accomplish! Not to imply these are impressive grabs, but I easily anticipated needing to practice and test for a while before I got results even acceptable quick tweak in RED ALERT! and jpeg compressed in photoshop. Sigma 28-70mm f2.8

forgive the cliche compositions, my dining room is small and unattractive so i wanted to just push it out of focus. sweet sweet 35mm

 

[Álex Montoya]

Nice grabs.

 

[jaadgy akanni]

Is it me, or should-could the 2nd & 3rd grabs been sharper? In the 3rd one, for instance, there's almost as much blur on the candle as there is on the face; it's like, which of the two do you wanna focus on? In the 2nd grab, the edges of the candle lack the same definition as the candle's edges...I don't know.

 

[Brandon Fraley]

let me point out that for all the shots there was no operator I was the subject in the first grab, and in the other 2 I was trying different things with the keychain LED

 

[jaadgy akanni]

I can see what happened there. You were zoomed in at 70mm, and just a couple of inches from the lens, the DOF being extremely shallow, and you being the subject, it was impossible for you to focus more selectively. The image quality is nevertheless very impressive. I can't wait to be using my Nikons and Sigmas with this camera.

 

[Brandon Fraley]

exactly, hard to nail focus without an operator but like I said, I don't think they should have come out as good as they did. vive la RED!

 

[Sam Roberts]

Some of the more exciting screen shots I've seen here as far as light level testing goes. Thanks

 

[Bryan Arnold]

Nice. The lighting is beautiful.

 

[Craig Ryan]

This is really encouraging for someone who is also cutting their teeth on the simple DVX. :biggrin:

The dude in the second grab kinda has a resemblance to Johnny Depp I might add.

 

[Brandon Fraley]

Hey Craig, SF isn't that far from Monterey, you should come shoot with us

 

[Nathan Garofalos]

Nice grabs Brandon, keep shooting!