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Sevens Sins: A Dragon Test Shoot.

Finally a Dragon test I can appreciate for more than just technical reasons (but also communicates many technical things).

It's also a delight to see a Red test that is coming from a refined, sophisticated perception of feminine beauty and charm.

Kudos!
 
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vincent kardasik said:
Thanks for your comments Peter.
I didn't use a matte box for any shot in that clip.
For the upcoming jobs I mentioned, I need to shoot quick and efficient, almost in a guerrilla style, so I don't have time to swap ND filters and I use a Vari-ND.
I've tried a lot of them and here I picked the Schneider True Match 77mm which is my favorite.
When it comes to use a matte box, I mount the Red Pro Mattebox on my lenses, it's really light and really easy to work with the clip-on system.
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Thanks a lot for the disclosure -> that's precious info to me ;)

I don't know how far the OLPF has advanced with Dragon (I come from the original M Sensor on R1 and the M-X Sensor on EPIC experience-wise) but with the old sensors there were times and places where we had -without filtration, just to state the obvious- pretty bad IR-Pollution especially when it came to direct sunlight environments or environments where snow and direct sunlight were mixed - that's why I asked for IR/ND-filtration and stuff... How much did you stop down the lenses with the outdoor/sunlight-scenes for this shoot? Any Color Correction involved here afterwards - or just contrast leveling with RC-X?

Thanks!
 
Jordan Raabe said:
Great video, love your compositions, Vincent. Do you run into any IR problems when using the Schneider True Cut and no IR filtration?
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Thanks Jordan.
No issue at all with IR filtration on this shoot but as I shot everything high speed outside, I didn't cut more than 4 stops.
 
Michael Tiemann said:
Did you mean to write 17:1, 11:1, or 7:1? I'm quite sure 17:11 is not an option. Thanks!
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17:1, well spotted, that's a typo in first post, I'll correct it asap.
 
Peter Stelzhammer said:
Thanks a lot for the disclosure -> that's precious info to me ;)

I don't know how far the OLPF has advanced with Dragon (I come from the original M Sensor on R1 and the M-X Sensor on EPIC experience-wise) but with the old sensors there were times and places where we had -without filtration, just to state the obvious- pretty bad IR-Pollution especially when it came to direct sunlight environments or environments where snow and direct sunlight were mixed - that's why I asked for IR/ND-filtration and stuff... How much did you stop down the lenses with the outdoor/sunlight-scenes for this shoot? Any Color Correction involved here afterwards - or just contrast leveling with RC-X?

Thanks!
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You're welcome Peter.
I shot everything high speed outside between 80fps to the max you can shoot in 6K WS so the most I cut was 4 stops.
I didn't notice any issue with IR filtration but I need to push that point more.
There's definitely a difference with the new OLPF and the fact the camera "flares" less than my Epic MX when pointed to direct light is an example.
After a first color correction in RCX, my partner applied a final grade in Da Vinci Resolve. She kept it easy as we wanted to keep the footage close to what we shot.
We'll probably post another edit with a more evolved and pushed grade in the next ten days.
 
Here's another portrait processed with ADD.

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Great video Vincent, loved the subtle camera moves, and the colors.
 
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