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RED ONE for stills....

christopher witzke

christopher witzke

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Yesterday I did a magazine shoot and rather than using my stills camera I used my RED... The client was absolutely thrilled with being able to get stills of high enough quality for their magazine. And, I loved working it with as well!

Funny though... the subject to be filmed was a high profile business woman and had a hard time posing without the sound of a shutter click... so the art director made a shutter sound with her voice... hehe.

The art director snuck in for a quick headshot... she's the hottie blonde close up pic

I'm dying to shoot some real models!

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great work, they look gorgeous. Just curious on why you decided on R1 over DSLR? The resolution out of a DSLR can be much higher then a R1, and you even have choice of medium and large format DSLR's to rent. How do you feel about photo editing with R1 stills over RAW files from DSLR's? Where do you feel like you are losing and gaining?
 
Resolution isn't everything... I own 22MP canons and a phaseone backed hassy.... but what I wanted to offer here is an experience you can't get with stills cameras. The opportunity for the clients to scroll through footage and request a frame out of them is amazing. The resolution of the RED ONE is good for magazine covers and even for double truck spreads in my opinion.

My grading workflow with the RED is very similar to my workflow with stills. I export fairly flat 16 bit tiffs after getting the WB and tint to my liking. Then I grade in photoshop.

The only thing I feel I'm losing is ultra high resolution of the higher MP's of the canons and P1 back... other than that I'm pleased, and so are the clients. If the project was static to begin with, like a table top or architectural, I'd obviously prefer the stills cameras until the RED's arrive with equal MP's.

I will be providing some motion samples out of this shoot... so there is that as well.
 
Real nice work, can you imagine doing the same with a Mysterium-X !!!!
 
Thanks all!

I used a canon 16-35 f2.8 L II... at around f4. camera at base WB and iso 320. 4k 16:9 to get the most resolution out of it I could. 24fps with 180 degree shutter ( 1/48th? )

Lighting was with a desisti 1.2k HMI either through a 4'X4' silk or off a wall. and I used 3 lowel pro lights 250 watts with daylight Dichroic lenses for accent and background lights.

For the headshot of the art director, I used a canon 35mm f1.4 L wide open with a Singh-Ray's Vari-ND filter... no fill or lights used... she was on a porch under cover as was I and the RED... it was raining outside. Camera setting the same as above.

Yes! the X would be nice!

Yes! so excited about the 645 Epic!
 
Hi Chris,

I just got this question the other day, do you know if a still pulled from the raw could hold up for a 40' billboard ad? The photographer that asked also wanted to know about the dpi, when I export stills from from redcine-x they're at 72dpi but he said he needed more like 300dpi for those kind of prints. Any thoughts?

Nathan
 
Lovely work, I wish my Art Directors were that beautiful to work around!
Great to see the versatility of the camera going strong.
 
Awesome, especially the last one in the bathroom, just seems to pop!

Nathan Pena said:
The photographer that asked also wanted to know about the dpi, when I export stills from from redcine-x they're at 72dpi but he said he needed more like 300dpi for those kind of prints. Any thoughts?
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Images are displayed on a computer monitor at 72 dpi, traditionally. If you print an image at 300 dpi it will look smaller than it does on screen at 100% at 72 dpi. DPI stands for 'dots per inch' and is just a way to relate pixel count to image size. A 300 x 300 px image printed at 300 dpi will be 1 x 1 inch. Print it at 150 dpi and it'll be 2 x 2 inches. The RED One's highest pixel size 4096 x 2304 px will produce a print, at 300 dpi, of 13.6 x 7.86 inches, perfect for magazine covers (even if the actual resolution is lower due to the Bayer sensor). I'm not sure what pixel density 40' billboards are printed at but it's a lot less than 300 dpi.
 
Most Art Directors have requested billboard images from me at 300 dpi and 1" = 1'... so a 40 foot wide billboard should be 300dpi at 40" wide... and that's just an optimum spec. I feel the RED M is more than capable of a great looking billboard image.... now if only it was in motion!
 
christopher witzke said:
Most Art Directors have requested billboard images from me at 300 dpi and 1" = 1'... so a 40 foot wide billboard should be 300dpi at 40" wide...
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haha, 300 dpf! I guess the true resolution of the print is 300 dots/foot / 12 inches/foot = 25 dpi.

Interesting. Thanks, Christopher.
 
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