Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 12, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2004 Hi, The things I do for money.... Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Josh Hill Posted September 13, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Yeah, but you look really good in that dress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 13, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Hi, Hang on, I have a shot of one of the comely ladies-in-waiting somewhere. Skincare ads here I come! Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fstop Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 Why are you always so constantly negative about yourself and your oppurtunities, Phil? I don't understand it- you can clearly see from your work here that you have the required talent and technical understanding, so why the overbearing pessimism? I bet if your attitude was anywhere near the quality of your work, your success would be snowballing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted September 13, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 I always enjoy your work, Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 13, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Hi, Kind words, guys, but I don't think it really matters if you're a one-man-DVCAM-band like me! Oh, and spot the trick here: Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted September 13, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Would that be a Muslin backdrop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 13, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Hi, Actually it's part of an old instore promotional display, a photographic printed background. Well spotted! Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Michael Nash Posted September 13, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 so why the overbearing pessimism?! He's English. ;) Nice stuff, Phil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 13, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2004 Hi, Well, I'm sure I have several ASC members circa 1929 revolving in their graves at high speed. The guys I shot this for would probably have been happy with more or less anything that was black and white, so it doesn't really matter anyway. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvin Pingol Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi Phil, cool pics! I notice some grad work in those frames. Are you using actual grad filters or a digital comp? I'd guess digitial since the leaves of the plant in the top right corner of the Talking Picture look overexposed, but are not "255-white". But of course, I could be wrong... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 14, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi, Yes, most of it has a digitally-applied vignette. I generally hate to bring overexposed hilights down like that, but I don't actually own any grads - £120 each and you need at least three - so I'll probably fiddle with it again. Edit: I'm pleased enough with this one to keep the colour in it, but really I have no idea if this is genuinely any good or if I'm just self-aggrandising. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted September 14, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2004 Great stuff. Pretty good simulation of that period -- the vignetting was very common. And they were using Cooper-Hewitt lamps in the Silent Era, sort of blue-green fluorescent tube discharge lamps. Too noisy for sound work, as were arcs early on, so they switched to tungsten. The actors' faces are a bit "modern" though... In the moving image, did you add some pulsing or grain artifacts? One of the harder things to simulate in DV would be the low depth of field, since most 35mm movies back then would have used a 50mm at T/2.1 for a lot of the work, occasionally a 35mm for wide shots and a 75mm for close-ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 14, 2004 Author Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hi, > The actors' faces are a bit "modern" though... Yeah, I got what I was given there. The facial closeups are just stuff I managed to shoot for my own amusement, they won't be used. I thought the Talking Picture guy looked all right. > In the moving image, did you add some pulsing or grain artifacts? I'd be adding pulsing right now if I wasn't typing. I'm going to leave grain alone - I might crunch up the blacks a bit, but it's soft enough already. I can try, I guess - actually, since it's being played back from hard disk, there's nothing stopping me blowing it up to a higher resolution - say 1K - and imposing grain at that resolution, which will be more realistic. I'll have to chase up what projector we're liable to get. Depth of field I'm probably stuck with. It's only a half-inch chip. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanStewart Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 This is really nice work Phil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Sprung Posted September 14, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2004 But this looks like film circa 1929 -- for video you have to go with 60 line vertical mechanical scan. ;-) -- J.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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