Jim Campbell

1. Yeah, I did think about that and well aware that movement should typically be from left to right, as you would read. But the Nike swoosh would then have been the wrong way round on the shoes. I'm sure this is a problem people working with Nike shoes have had in the past, I'll need to have a look around to see how they've got round it. I'll need to try flipping the mov to see how it looks actually. 2. That was the shoes I was supplied and believe me I'd have rathered not use it, I was cursing it, since it was silvery and reflective, it was a nightmare in sunny conditions, highlights blowing all over the shop. If I hadn't started this as a project about the shoe I was supplied I reckon I'd have tried to use a variety of shoes. 3. This was probably due to the runner being me, I was shooting myself and having to hit my own mark, which was really tricky at times, especially in water etc, but it was the self shooting nature of the ad that made it come together. I'd never have been able to shoot this for the budget I did (zero) if I had to resource models/actors or even just friends in all those locations.

Hey Aaron, it's an Iscorama 36 I used (Google it) and a Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm f/2.4. As for the framing, it was just a matter of hitting a mark and trying roughly to get the same distance from the camera. But considering it was shot over a period of months, I reckon it's way off in quite a few of them and worse so in lots of shots I had to reject, but hopefully it's near enough.

I hear ya Robert. I did worry about that aspect myself. I did initially plan to work from different viewpoints and include more varied activities. But once the beat per footfall idea locked in, I found I liked the purity of this approach and attempted to bring (some) personality in elsewhere. Also, the idea that shot this entirely myself and they are my feet, meant I wasn't restricted to finding models, arranging dates and times for shoots etc, I just wore them and carried my camera around with me. The former involving budget (of which I had zero) and the latter not. And yes, it was just that one pair of shoes, which on reflection I'd have much rathered work with a different pair or many different pairs. Thanks for your feedback though, good to hear some of my own general concerns echoed.

Hi Saul I mount the Isco on the CL with about 5-6 different stepper rings, it's a real Franken-setup. I generally set it at home by aiming it directly at a strong LED torch and aligning the top or bottom of the frame with the lens flare. It always gets knocked off a little here and there in the bag though, so some of them probably were a little less than perfect, but close enough not to jar. I set focus on both the lens and the adapter and used a +0.5 diopter on most of the shots, though shooting deep at f22 for most of it too, the backgrounds are still soft in relation to the foreground since working with the diopter. But this was the only way I could ensure focus on the shoe at that close distance with the Iscorama. It's really tricky working with the Isco, but once you tame it a bit, it's well worth it, I just need to properly put it through it's paces now on something where I'd be moving the camera and pulling focus.

The video and a bit of blurb about it on my site at http://www.someofmywork.co.uk/#585934/LIVE-NIKE Would love to hear what people think or answer any questions on my workflow. Thanks

Thanks for the speedy response Ian. Was expecting to login to tumbleweed after posting that last night. I've not even got the camera yet, so I'll wait n see what sort of functioning order it's in once I get it, but I'll contact Lee for sure and see if it's something he can do. And yeah, just asking round the labs is probably the best bet. No point in getting it modded if I can't get it telecined without sending rolls to the States, expensive enough business without all that! Cheers, I'll keep the board posted on my progress.

I'm also in the UK and got a Canon Scoopic on it's way to me. Is there anywhere in the UK I can get the gate modded for Ultra 16 and as asked above can we actually get it processed anywhere over here?