reynald capurro

Hello!

 

I'm producing a feature film that will be made by a core team of very young people (under 21). The film will have a budget of around $100,000 and likely be shot in Austin, TX. I'm scouting the internet for the best young DP in the world. If you or somebody you know are this person, please send me an email and let me know!

 

This will be produced in a very experimental way. The team of young people will live in a house together for 2-4 weeks during preproduction, spend a month during production, then the director and editor will spend 1-2 months editing. A documentary film will be made simultaneously about the efforts of the inexperienced but talented team.

 

This project is in its early stages, but finding the core team is the starting place.

 

We are also still scouting for an editor, production designer, and sound designer/mixer.

 

Thanks,

Drew Ott

hy my name is reynald capurro.

i've just read your post and i'm quite curious to know a little bit more about your project. especially about the script and the support (35mm or hd?)

i'm a young french director of photography (33 years old). i've already been in texas for my first job as camera operator. it was for a documentary about death penalty.

i speak english fluently of course.

this is my web site: www.reynaldcapurro.com

i'm about to have a new website in few weeks in order to have all the last commercials and short i've shot.

take care, reynald.

But what is the advantage of having black sit at 30% ? Of course you also want some things to be black ? Why wouldn't you put them at say 5% At 30% aren't you just reducing your available dynamic range....

 

Genuinely wanting to understand your approach.....

 

I've shot with the D21 and I found that at higher ASA's, in flat fields in near underexposed areas it can have a certain pattern of noise. In fact, I did a DI and the post house rang me to tell me that when they converted it to LOG from REC 709 that was recorded it had huge noise problems and they couldn't go forward ! The noise disappeared into the blacks once they were restored to *normal* though and it ended up looking OK. I also recall seeing the same pattern in The Bank Job, and it's one thing I look for to *pick* if it's a D21 job.

 

jb

1-the bank job was shot with the D20 and master primes.

2- i guess you were not using the logC on the camera because you're talking about changing the ASA. am i correct?

3- were you recording on tape / hard drive / P2?

4- i could not put the black at 5% (i wish i could) but the logC impose you to have 10% in the darker part of your image!

5- as i said in a previous answer, we can't consider that a blue pull-over is something Black.

6- what do you mean by "they were restor to normal".

thanks for all your answer. take care, reynald.

Is it possible you're just seeing the noise floor of the sensor itself ? Why are you lifting the blacks up as high as 30% ? If you're lifting them as high as that I would expect you'd start seeing noise in the blacks....

 

jb

i'm not lifting the black up, 1st: because what i'm filming is not black, 2nd: because i don't touch the level in post to gain some detail in darker aeras.

3rd: the lowest level you can get on the D21 thanks to the log C is 10%, and what is wrong in wanting to have detail in a wooden piece of furniture, or hair and pull-over.??

thanks

Can you show us an example? Is it constant or variable? Just a few pixels, or over a large area?

 

 

 

 

-- J.S.

The pixels are constant, colorised ( red blue green) on large areas such as dark blue pull-over , hair, wooden table:

on my monitor (astro) i was on log c and nothing was under 25-30 % !! and the high light were 65-70 %

i know that more and more people around the world shoot commercials, features...with this camera but all the colorist i've been working with in france have also noticed that problem.

i'll try to sent a picture.

thanks. reynald.

hi, i'm a french director of photography,

after several tests in panavision france and one commercial, i've noticed an disgraceful "colored" noise in the middle grey and darker part of the image.

i was recording on hard drive in HD 4:4:4 (not raw) using a Log C.

to be safer i was overexposing a bit, the director and i wanted a soft look (cooke S4) . as far as art departement was concerned, no deep colors except a blue jacket for

the actor.

during the color timing, we didn't need to push the "darker" part of the images But we had to face the evidence: noise appeared !!!

in several forum in france i've read the same problem in several dop's testimonial after shooting.

i just love how this camera handle the high light and how beautiful a skin tone can be graceful But this noise is a big issue !

am i wrong? do you have different opinion or experience? can i see images to prove i'm wrong ? thanks.

reynald.

i've shot several times using fuji 250D under tungsten lighting, with no correction either on light or lens, the result on face is very soft and nice.

i recommand this trick.

reynald.

www.reynaldcapurro.com

Oh, don't get me wrong. I would love to shoot 2 perf for the right project . . .

in france, some commercials were shot in 2perfs. also several tv drama (they are still shooting: "PIGALLE" produced by Canal+) and also the last documentary of Raymond Depardon (as usual he operates the camera himself.)