Wake surf - Monstro and Dog Shildt Flare factory.

[Björn Benckert]

Brought Monstro to my friends Bartchelor party. So no pro wake surfers in this film. Instead we got some slightly over weight, over aged film and computer dudes tumbling around behind the boat for the first time.

Weather was super and normally this time of year around Stockholm you dont even dip your toes. Now, dont know if it´s global warmning or pure luck, the water well above 20 degrees. Was a really nice evening.

Just editited and tossed a universal grade on in resolve. Amazing how monstro handled the way over exposed highlights and overall harsh light. Did not have more than a screw on ND6 and the lens does not have iris so used super short shutters, like 8 deg most of the time. Which explaines the quite studdery look especially in the 25fps stuff. What to say, we where getting drunk, would for sure have been better to shoot more highspeed to keep exposure down

The grade could be done much better for sure, even the white outs have way more coverage, but just wanted to this slapped together sitting on my laptop so did not want to fiddle with with individual clips.

 

[Giles Harvey]

Nice one. What lens (length/image circle) did you use?

 

[Björn Benckert]

Nice one. What lens (length/image circle) did you use?

It was a a flare factory with a wide front element so a 38mm lens. Shot most of it in FF8k but as we fiddled with the menues some was also in wide screen so when editing I cropped it all down to 2.35 The lens barely covers FF 8k it gets quite a vinjette towards the corners, but like that at times as it usually puts a nice gradient to the skies.

 

[Giles Harvey]

It was the vignetting I was looking at hence the lens question. I shoot Leica R's and in HD 8K 28mm upwards is vignette free. The main thing I can see about the camera is the skin tones. I've shooting some fashion and boy does the Monstro love that work

 

[Björn Benckert]

This lens have some lipstic colored interior and a brass iris so not sure skincolor gets "right" but I find the images from monstro, as they are so clean, far easer to warp the colors around without the image breaking.

 

[Björn Benckert]

First link here gone missing when vimeo took my account down.

But brought Monstro and flarefactory 58mm 3x oval + wide angle 38mm adapter for summer vacation stay on Gotland this year.

Love this lens, with monstro and PV luts its possibly the lens I would pick if I could only have one. Just lock and load, shit looks good pretty much no matter what.

Promised my self to make a little film clip each day... that did not last long, I guess thats what vacation is all about.

Also did some GoPro recordings. works nice to flip GoPro flat to RWGRG and then ad the PV lut and flip back ro rec709. Looks quite similar to the monstro colors if tweaked a bit. Sure difference in DR and such but I like the light iron stuff on there as well.

 

[Nathaniel Haban]

Really lovely aesthetic on the videos. Love it.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Really lovely aesthetic on the videos. Love it.

Thanks. I really like to just to bring the camera, shoot and then do a quick edit with sound. It reminds me of when I was a kid, my parents shot a lot of 16mm when we went on vacations normally sailing or skiing and back then I used to edit the films by simply hacking togethet the good takes in cronological order. Usually it was a lot of nonsens but seing it years later is almost like having a flashback. Then vhs and Hi8 and all other shit formats came around and ruined it. But now with todays cameras shit is simply back on track again. And I really like gathering little clips like this without the presure from clients or any such thing. Seams stupid but 8k monstro is nice for work but even better when having time of.