Denair Isaac

Hi, I'm shooting this music video the first week of august. The director wants to shoot Macro shots of the neon lights so he can overlay them during the video. What he essentially wants, is the look of a neon light with a bad ballast that stobe. We went location scouting and did some test shots with a 7D. We will be shooting with a 5D, and an adapted hpx-170. During the test shooting I was able to get some neon lights to flicker. I had to move the camera to get a kinda flicker that was some what more moire than a flicker, or the neon lights had to be moving. (VIDEO) What I'm trying to do is pretty much the opposite of what i would normally do to get a computer screen or tv to not strobe . I tried to use the fastest shutter, and I was able to use the cameras banding problem to get a sort of flicker look, but its still not what the director wants, plus its hard to get a proper exposure without the signal to noise ratio being to high. The slowest shutter setting however in video mode in the dslr's slowest shutter is 1/30 sec. For some reason i think if my shutter is wide open that it would kinda work. Would I be better to try and shoot the neon lights with the adapter with a 350 degree shutter? Am I on the right track? Or whats the best way to get neon lights to strobe? Thanks for you time

http://vimeo.com/10363371 http://vimeo.com/9101434 http://vimeo.com/7139962 These are projects I've done since I've graduated one year ago. The first one is a short for a friends senior project. The other two are music videos. The short was done on no budget and the music videos were done for under 2 grand. Please be as honest as possible. Thanks for your time.

This is true these still camers have great resolution but u have to look at how much it compresses the image. This might matter if you want it to be blown up and projected The hvx is nice because it compresses it image the least out of the camera in its prosumer bracket. Im looking into the hpx170 which is the hvx but just P2 and a few real nice upgrades. Like the fact you can do uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 HD-SDI. Hope i was somewhat helpful.

this has been alot of help i have a feature comming up with tbe same senerio but flip the sex, and would it make that much of a diffrence if it is in the snow? I wanna thank you in advance.

You are amazing at what you do and i can only hope that one day i can be a good as you thank you for posting pics and sharing ur knowledge with the masses.

would like to know what you guys thought about my reel its from march www.denairisaac.com