Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted November 27, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted November 27, 2015 New reel for 2016 is up: Hope you guys like it. Cheers, -Sats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill DiPietra Posted November 27, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted November 27, 2015 Great reel! The desert scene was gorgeous. Looked like Tatooine ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin R Probyn Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Very nice sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Miguel Angel Posted November 28, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted November 28, 2015 Very good! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Gregory Irwin Posted November 28, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted November 28, 2015 Great work Sat! I enjoyed it. G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted November 28, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted November 28, 2015 Good dunes. What's the location? I've looked at that patch of stuff down on the US border with Mexico in the past, but as it's the only dune sea in the continental US (as far as I know) I suspect it's expensive. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Hartman Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Good dunes. What's the location? I've looked at that patch of stuff down on the US border with Mexico in the past, but as it's the only dune sea in the continental US (as far as I know) I suspect it's expensive. P Not exactly....http://www.lakemichigansanddunes.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted November 28, 2015 Author Premium Member Share Posted November 28, 2015 Good dunes. What's the location? I've looked at that patch of stuff down on the US border with Mexico in the past, but as it's the only dune sea in the continental US (as far as I know) I suspect it's expensive. P Thanks everyone. Location is Death Valley. It's actually a fairly small patch of dunes a short hike from the hotel but they are fairly high with a ring of mountains as a backdrop, so with a long lens it looks like it goes on for miles and miles. We discovered that there's a daily sand storm around 10a-12p because the heat stirs up the wind. My 2nd Unit DP Luke Rocheleau grabbed those shots with a splinter unit after I went down for a few hours with heat stroke. He's a good friend and great DP as well, so I'm very thankful he was able to step in. The storm was pretty intense, we ended up trashing a Scarlet, Canon 70-200 with a doubler, and Miller 55 head. Had to get them all professionally cleaned. Good thing we kept the Epic and Optimo DP lenses under wraps! Luckily, the little studio in LA that we were producing the film for and who lent us the gear were so excited about the footage that they didn't care too much about the gear. The campfire scene was shot at a campground in the Hollywood Hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Haven’t seen this one yet, but I did see the 2013 one. Loved that silhouette shot in the desert around 01:05! The fire (around 01:24) did look a bit too artificial, too sharp, for lack of a better word. Sorry. Another gorgeous shot is the one in the stables, around 01:45. Since I’ve been thinking to do a thread regarding planning this kind of thing, I was wondering how did you guys know when the Sun will be in this precise position? What I’m aiming at is did you use some kind of ephemeris or app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted April 24, 2016 Author Premium Member Share Posted April 24, 2016 Thanks! Yeah, I would have liked to diffuse the 'fire' lights a bit more. The nose shadow bothers me too. The key light is a Dedolight hidden behind the fire in the wide shot on a Magic Gadgets Flickerbox. Normally, you would light this way for the wide and diffuse for the close up so that the nose shadow was less obvious. We shot with 2x cameras and did wide and CU at the same time for a variety of practical reasons, so there was no opportunity to soften the close up. The horse stables, the director and I did a scout the day before at sunset. The shot with the sun in frame and the girl is actually sunset, we shot that on our scout day. So we got lucky and just found that shot. We used the Sun Seeker app to predict where the sunrise would be and came back and shot the other footage. It was basically just the two of us running around with 5D Mk2's and some EF zooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Justin Hayward Posted April 25, 2016 Premium Member Share Posted April 25, 2016 Looks great! Really nice work, Satsuki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Collins Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Good work Satsuki. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Burke Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Are those the Mesquite Dunes? I love that place. beautiful photography. Looks fantastic. I hope you get a lot of work from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted June 7, 2016 Author Premium Member Share Posted June 7, 2016 Thanks! Indeed, that was the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, just outside of Stovepipe Wells. It was very hot in July, I'm sure it's better in the fall and winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Aragon Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Very Nice :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romain le Faune Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 What a reel ! I love your images in the desert, I'd like to see this film ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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