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    The Ojeda Family

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    This is Stopdown Pictures 4th photo shoot with the Ojeda family. This time I wanted to make a short Behind the scenes video to represent the relationship we are able to build with the Ojeda family and the variation among all the photo shoots.

    Also, not to mention, I was dying to film the entire shoot with my new BMCC. I filmed it in raw 2.5k.

    My post process is pretty simple. First, I make proxies of my raw clips in DaVinci Resolve. Second, I do my editing in Premiere Pro CS6. Third, once the picture is on lock I bring it back into Resolve where I link my media with the source (raw files). Forth, I grade my footage by using the Artist Color (which I absolutely LOVE). Fifth, I output a Prores HQ file and reimport that into Premiere Pro, where I make my final adjustments.

    behind the scenes, bts, photo shoot, family photo shoot, theme park, castle park, riverside, california, summer, bmcc, bmc, blackmagic cinema camera, 2.5k raw, prores hq, davinci resolve, premiere pro cs6, color grading, post process, stopdown pictures, cinematography

     

    V+B Wedding trailer - BMCC

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    http://bit.ly/13fhLis

    A beautiful beach wedding filmed in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Enjoy the journey through Veronica and Bryan’s big day.

    This is a sneak peek of the event.

    Camera:
    Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K (Shot in Prores, Video)
    GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition

    Lenses:
    Canon 16-35mm 2.8L
    Canon 24-70mm 2.8L
    Nikkor Ai-s 85mm 1.8

    Audio:
    Zoom H1

    Software:
    Premiere Pro CS6
    After Effects CS6
    DaVinci Resolve

    Song: A Beautiful Place to Be
    Artist: Tyrone Wells

    SongFreedom.com

     

    Teaser

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted · Edited by Waqas Khan

     

    An Artist profile created for the RAWards in Los Angeles.

     

    Shot with Canon Rebel T2i/550D

    Tamron 17-50 2.8

    Final Cut Pro 7

    Apple Color

    After Effects

    Sound Track Pro

     

    Please share your feedback regarding the visuals and the storytelling.

    Teaser

    in D-SLR

    Posted

     

     

    Check out a quick and dirty teaser I put together for my upcoming documentary.

     

    Shot: t2i

    Lenses: Tamron 17-50mm f2.8, Nikon Ai-s 80-200 f4, Nikon Ai-s 85mm f1.8

    Edit: Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Sound Track Pro, Color

    checkout some quality work

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    Hey Waqas,

     

    Honestly, I did not watch it. Can't you remove the watermark? I really don't see why you would use a watermark. I can't imagine anyone wanting to steel that footage, that hardly happens at all. Especially not from Vimeo or other Flash websites.

     

    Secondly, you call your own work 'some quality stuff'.. Modesty is a nice virtue. :-) But no offence here.

    If you could remove those watermarks, I'd be more than willing to watch it.

    I like you because you have a sense of humor and yes I'm converting my files to H.264 to replace with the ones I have as we speak. Only for you so you'd be able to watch and enjoy my work.

    checkout some quality work

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    Hi Waqas,

     

    Mister Morris is the strongest of the lot. It looks very controlled all the way through with the exception of the scene with the men in black suits against a black background; there's no separation at all.

     

    Disturbance looks good, the sunset shot of the girl walking especially. I know the HVX can be tricky exposure-wise in those situations. Nice modification to the HVX color palette for the overall aesthetic.

     

    The Parental Service piece is decent, but you let your highlights get away from you on the soccer ball and the man's arm.

     

    Wrath-Fight doesn't work at all for a Cinematography piece. The threshold is so high on the images that instead of smooth tonality you have white, black, and digital noise.

     

    And the watermark on your videos is very distracting. I would lose it.

     

    Nice work, overall. Thanks for sharing it.

    Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep in mind and will lose the water marks as you suggested. As far as the fight sequence I have the actual file and I'll try to control colors to make it look more cinematic.

    checkout some quality work

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    Hey Waqas,

     

    I feel that Disturbance is probably your most recent work and I think it is the best (photography wise). The exposure is well controlled and the shot design works very well with what your trying to say story wise.

     

    Mister Morris was my least favorite, some of the shots seemed to be locked off on the tripod and the composition suffered from it. I think composition wise this is your weakest up there. A lot of shots of the artist from profile when I want to see his expression on the rapper's face when he gets all into his students. The studio, as said with the guys in the black suits, some seperation would have helped, spot light from above to play as motivation from a "track light" or something. The shots of the sound board when the hand is moving, it's in the foreground and is out of focus. Doesn't effectively work for me when biggest subject in the frame is out of focus. Maybe you have part of the shot in the actual take where it is in focus, I do know part of it is in focus on the actual sound board automating but because it's not a tight shot of the faders moving it just appears the whole shot is soft to me. Movement (dolly) for the segments on the artist would of been a good thing to do. Pushing in when he was in the studio would of helped, as a music video our goal is to sell and artist and for hip-hop a push in would make the artist seem more epic. Plus based off the beat in the song it can serve as jump cuts throughout the push in which a lot of hip-hop videos do in cutting. Possibly things you can think about trying in your next music video if you would like.

     

    Same goes as the previous comment about Wrath Fight and the watermark.

     

    The work is not bad, as said it looks like everything keeps getting better and better. Disturbance looked very good.

    Thanks a lot for all your suggestions and comments I will look into those things next time for sure.

    Cheap Jib arm crane recommendations????

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm a student filmmaker. I've never used a jib-arm crane before but I have seen it used before for my buddy's shoot and it was a pretty cheap one but when I saw the results, I was stunned. I'm curious if you guys know any cheap jib-arm cranes that could as a professional one or at least somewhere around the line. My budget is $300. Thanks in advance.

    Buying HVX on ebay

    in Panasonic

    Posted

    I'm planning on buying my HVX on ebay for $4000. I have done my research. This guy has 98% seller score, also a power seller. I read tons of reviews people left and most of them are very believing. I personally don't think its a grey market but I still want to know what you guys think? Thanks everyone!

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