RED Collective – Mammoth HD

[Clark Dunbar]

Thank you Morgan. The Helium gallery and submissions have been building and as noted I'll be adding a diverse group of Dragon/VistaVision 8K over the next few weeks.

Just added a few frame grabs above to the link on the Dripping Honey from my 1st VistaVison 8K sessions...

 

[Antony Newman]

Wow - the imagery is gorgeous!

AJ

 

[Craig Charlton]

Incredible guys, this is why i bought red. I love everything about it

 

[Clark Dunbar]

VistaVision 8K

update on the in-house RED Weapon/Dragon VistaVision 8K sessions...

a lot of new work shot this last week on the VistaVision 8K special project.... here' s a few frame grabs from the week.

1st is the Broadtailed Hummingbirds that migrate to the front range of the Colorado Mountains every year..always showing up as the temp warm...but being Colorado we always have a few late spring snow storms - so it gets cold and very snowy (this week we had a storm dump over 2 feet) - love these little birds and how tough they are... so RED 8K VistaVision using Canon 100mm, macro, Zeiss Otus 85mm w.ext tubes, Zeiss 135mm w/ext tubes and the Canon 70-200mm - the snow sets were shot over a 36 hour period.. the spring green shots were done 2 days before the snow.

Spring Snow Storm

Spring

a few of the studio critters...

and basic studio setups

and back to the Dripping Honey series... just love the viscosity flow of honey...

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this next week - get out of the studio for the most part and start shooting a few wildlife in the field and big landscapes - so telephotos (150-400 + doubler) and wide-angles/normals (20-85). Absolutely love the LARGE Sensor and how it looks with the glass. 8K is amazing to work with both the VistaVison and Helium but add the VistaVision sized sensor and the glass becomes that magic of large format... look forward when more VistaVisions ship - but also the next generation if RED continues the larger sensor development (i.e. the 645 from the original RED development list from the 2007 roadmap)

 

[Clark Dunbar]

spent a good portion of the weekend working on a few more studio macro sessions with the 8K VistaVision (as I told Jarred this morning - I'm completely sold!) the DR and amount of detail is amazing and insane - love working on these super rich and deep - pliable raw files!)

So here are a few frames from the MHD Antique Tool Gallery: a rusty Adjustable T-Square (approx 100+ year old carpenters square)

this whole set is a static camera with light sweeping across the frame/subject.... processed in REDCine-X -> IPP2.

 

[Clark Dunbar]

another update on the MammothHD's in-house - 8K VistaVision special project sessions... gotta say I absolutely love the large sensor and the DR of the VistaVision handling of the full-frame glass combined with the new IPP2 processing!

anyway here's a few frame grabs from this weeks sessions.... all 8K either 23.98 or 59.94 projects - with some slow at 23.98/59.94fps

the flame within a frame

the wide-open DOF... (Canon 100mm/macro with ext tubes)

this Chinese Water Dragon is one of my old favorite 'models' - I've shot her in 4K, 5K, 6K and now 8K VistaVision...

more playing with fire...progression

a bit higher key..

saturation

more DOF (or lack of...)

and as mentioned the other day - starting the outdoor/location and wildlife series... more on those next week.
Canon 70-200 zoom

Zeiss/Otus 28mm prime

so that's a sampling of this last week's VistaVision sessions.... more to come!

 

[Phil Holland]

Lovely color Clark!

 

[Clark Dunbar]

thanks Phil - the new IPP2 processing of color and highlight roll-off make the grading better and faster.

 

[Clark Dunbar]

having too much fun with the new fireball series (Shot on 8K VistaVision) - had to share the early test !!!

ok - back to studio for more....

 

[Clark Dunbar]

..today's 8K VistaVision update - been a busy week -> shooting all over from the desktop studio setups to the top of the Colorado Rocky Mtns at 14,000'

so here's a quick set of frame grabs.....


Colorado (this last weekend) - 'Spring' at 14,000' (this is where we shot part of the RED Collective#6 at...)

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I've been working for years on a Raptor Portrait series... started in 4K and reshooting now in 8K VistaVision.
Golden Eagle

Redtail Hawk

Barn Owl

Barred Owl

Great Horned Owl

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another continuing series has been reptiles...
Aligators

Gila Monster

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and then plugging away at the studio desktop - macros and misc material for the library....

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up next is finishing the review/select/edit and prep for the Raptor Portrait series - more owls and hawks, etc... and back out into the Colorado high country. 8K is very addicting - and the VistaVision sensor with it's 'full frame' size is even more so... pushing glass (Otus and Canon) to it's intended edges

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Waiting for my VV just got even harder - and I didn't think that was possible... Well done sir.

Cheers - #19

 

[Clark Dunbar]

thanks Blair... worth the wait!

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

thanks Blair... worth the wait!

The VV sets the bar.

A truly magical camera. Rent mine - it pisses me off constantly to be so busy that I can't just run away with it and shoot stuff ... alas ... my day will come

It's in Alaska this week - but back on the 15th ... looking for it's next gig

 

[Clark Dunbar]

on the 8K VistaVision sessions - mostly critters this last week - finished up the 1st set of Raptors and had a great session with butterflies.... the birds are almost all shot with the Canon 70-200 with/without a 2x extender and the butterflies are all the Canon 100mm macro with/with out extension tubes from 12mm to 36mm.... have several more sessions scheduled with the butterflies, raptors and reptiles...

a few frame grabs from the 8K originals:

Butterflies - Session#1

while working with the raptors we also got 'Boo' the Harlequin Macaw to show off...
(a hybrid macaw - bred from a Blue/Gold Macaw and a Green-Winged Macaw - these do not exist in the wild)

Osprey

Harris's Hawk

Broad Wing Hawk

Eastern Screech Owl

upcoming this week - more macro and studio work and then back to the Colorado landscapes/scenics...

one of the thing that becomes very apparent in working with the VistaVision Sensor (full frame and the glass) is the fall-off in DOF - love it - especially with my macro work.

 

[Jason Sturgis]

Nailing it Clark!

 

[Clark Dunbar]

a quick note on the VistaVision Sessions.... today spent some time in the Colorado back-country 10,000' and above - shooting BIG landscapes in 8K.. so here's a frame grab on one of the clips - SouthPark, Colorado - from Kenosha Pass. Most of the day was shot with the Canon 11-24mm zoom - and FYI the 11mm does cover the VistaVision 8K sensor... biggest problem was exposure - as this was shot at the lowest in camera ISO of 250 and with no ND and/or polazier wide lens and curved front element - ended up shooting at f-23 and shortening the shutter duration a bit to fit the metering and 'stop-lights' in camera. BUT with the new IPP2 grading option saved the shot (thanks Graeme!) - not ideal -> so looking at several on camera control options - ND OLPF's, larger (huge) matte box filtration, etc - amazing how wide 11mm is when looking at covering with front filters....

so here's one of the frame grabs from the Colorado BIG landscapes... 15mm (canon 11-24) - VistaVision 8K

graded in RedCine-X -> IPP2

 

[Jerrin Uecker]

I think there are a couple affordable options for putting ND on that lens.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...w150_mkii_filter_holder.html/pageID/accessory

http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=25795.0

Those blues look really good for no polarizing filter!

 

[Clark Dunbar]

Thanks Jerron,

been getting several options on filtration for the 11-24 - so looks great and also specific to that lens!

as to the blue in the shot - being at elevations excess of 10,000; helps - along with a bit of added saturation... but the cloud separation is all in the grading using IPP2

 

[Clark Dunbar]

and a few more frame grabs from todays Colorado BackRoads... 8K VistaVision sessions... Canon 11-24 (see the note above on the exposures...)

haven't been shooting 'Super-Wides' in awhile - loving-it!

 

[Stacey Spears]

Love the cows! It's C.W.A. Cows with Attitudes. Their hits include F*** the Pulled Pork and Straight outta Cowtown (Thank you Gavin!) Gonna go 187 on an undercooked chop.

Straight outta cowtown, crazy mother heifer named beef cube
From the herd called Cows with Attitudes.

Thank you. I will be here all week.

In all seriousness, the cow pic is awesome!