Enrique Blein
Well-known member
There are a couple ways to approach vertical format stills. One is to shoot vertical! For fashion runway and in-store displays, I noticed these are being shot vertically.
Red has this in the works:
the r90: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?49241-The-R90
The second approach is like you said, through cropping.
Here is an example of print quality from a Red One still: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?48566-COACH...&p=639290&viewfull=1#post639290
I shoot anywhere from 5:1 to 12:1 depending on if I am shooting high speed 120fps. 5:1 is the sweet spot but 8:1 is nice as well. I think it depends on your "storage budget." =)
For the next shoot, I plan on using some portable LEDS with diffusion. This will primarily help in the situations where 1) we have time to place the lights and 2) it is appropriate to place lights. During the ceremony, however, you will have to pretty much deal with natural light depending on where it is. For example, you generally won't be setting up lights in a church. If you have fast lenses though, you can still get amazing shots.
be prepared to shoot between 1-2 terabytes depending on how much high speed shooting you do.
hehe, no secrets here! we are all learning.
Thanks for your thoughts. I sometimes do wedding photography, and the thought of cashing in the photography budgets as well is very tempting, it actually doubles the video budget brides have (at least where I live). I have to tell you, I am very scared to get into all of this: usually I just do fly in the wall doc style videos, taking charge of the official bride photography is a very different matter, you need direct as a still photographer....then there's the data wrangling, and the urgency to get over postproduction in order to liberate the hard drives from the staggering amount of data. Overall, I am still trying to decide...obviously it's a big investment that would eventually pay itself off, the funny thing is that for the type of docu work and the croporate clients I have, Scarlet IS the camera.
Anyway, great work Tonaci!