VAA Gift - Videos and still photos from Epic-X

[Miguel Sales Lopes]

Hi all

Please take a look at the video and photos I shot for the portuguese company Vista Alegre Atlantis 2013-2014 catalog (on paper and online).
This is the long version, and we also did 4 20 second commercials for television.

You can check the photos here:

http://www.miguelsaleslopes.com/still-photography

If you want you can download the UHD version from the Vimeo video page.

http://vimeo.com/82381554

This was the second year we did this catalog with the Epic.

Here are the videos for the 2012 catalog, that were shot at 2K (for high speed):

https://vimeo.com/album/2368321

And the photos:

http://www.miguelsaleslopes.com/still-photography

On both years I was the cinematographer, editor and did the post-production (videos and photos).

We used mostly Canon L zoom lenses (16-35, 24-70, 70-200)

Software used : Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and Davinci Resolve Lite


UPDATE (05-02-2014)

Watch here the smaller TVC versions:

Hope you enjoy it.

Miguel Sales Lopes
Cinematographer
www.miguelsaleslopes.com

 

[Eric Santiago]

Nice work, visually stunning

 

[Karim_Nassar]

very nice work. super clean well controlled images.
How did you get such good quality on vimeo? Care to share your file settings please?

 

[Miguel Sales Lopes]

Thanks Eric and Karim

Karim:
I leave you here the settings I used in Adobe Media Encoder to get the mp4 UHD file I uploaded to Vimeo (and to Youtube).


The resulting file was 2.77GB and after uploading, Vimeo warned me the resolution and bitrate was too high.
Even so, it accepted the file and made all the conversions for smaller resolutions.
You can download the original file in UHD from the Vimeo video page (there is a button for that under the description).

Miguel

 

[Karim_Nassar]

Thank for that Miguel
I was unaware that vimeo accepted higher than 1080p files
good to know thanks

 

[Miguel Sales Lopes]

They do, but you can only watch it at 1080.
At least for now.

 

[Will Keir]

wow, so helpful, so generous. Thanks Miguel for your work.

 

[Jagger Christian]

Great Stuff! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Joseph Seuferling]

Fantastic work! Miguel, did you light with HMI or LED?

 

[Miguel Sales Lopes]

Thanks Will, Jagger and Joseph

Joseph:
The strongest lights I used were HMI´s (12K and 6K) and Maxi-Brutes (most of the time through silks and diffusion frames).
I had to have a comfortable light level to allow me the fast shutter I needed for the dancers still photos (usually 1/500 with the camera rated at 400ASA and a stop between 2.8 and 4)

You can see some lights on the video in the background or can check a small Making Of here:
https://vimeo.com/93360629