Paul Kell

hey guys, stumbled across your post while prepping a 10 camera shoot in johannesburg. we've got 7 EX3s, 1EX1R and 2 F3s, and i'm in the DP in charge of overseeing all of the teams -- i'm looking for a picture profile (or suggestions) to get the best gradable image possible. i used to own an EX1R and had my settings as such: detail -17 freq +45 crispening -45 white limit +80 black limit +80 knee apt +10 matrix r-g +10 r-b +4 gr 0 g-b +14 b-r +3 b-g -3 std matrix cinegamma 1 matrix +25 blk gamma -36 also, with the EX3 and EX1R i've shot some tests with the ninja that proved (to me, at least) there's little use for an external recorder when using these cameras since the higher bitrate does not translate to a better image. i see it as a waste of money, time and convenience. if you want the higher bitrate, just convert it to prores 422 in post, no? here's the link to my test if you want to see for yourself: http://www.eattheblinds.com/2011/05/bitrate-shootout-atomos-ninja-vs-sonys.html thanks for whatever advice you throw my way and congrats bobby on Fubar 2 -- i didn't think it was possible to like it more than the first one, but i actually did. cheers, p

and for the record, i'm booked until the 14th of july but am always looking for my next gig. any/all leads greatly appreciated.

Mostly shot in HD, with a handful of 16mm, Beta & DV selections. http://www.paulkell.com/PaulKell.mov Thanks for looking and if you've got a link of your own you'd like to share, plz add to thread

thanks for the heads up satsuki. i'm a n00b here, so any guidance is greatly appreciated. to answer your first question, yes, the flashlight from the first scene motivates the sunlight. the flashlight flares into the lens which provides the edit point to cut to the flaring sun light through the window. your suggestion mirrors (lame pun intended) what i've already come up. i've got an HMI and mirror booked for the shoot in addition to the indian solution to a smoke machine: smoking incense coals. gotta love this place...despite not being able to rent one single HD camera top monitor in ALL of bombay. cheers.

anyone?!

I'm a US/CAD DP shooting in Bombay at Future Studios and I've got a tricky setup that has me searching for advice. It's a bedroom scene where the principal is asleep on the bed. His wife walks into the darkened room (we dolly with her) and at the far end of the room she stops to pull open the bedroom's curtains. Through the window a stark shaft of (what is written as) daylight falls on the man in bed. His eyes squint open. From here there's a match cut to the beam of a bright torch light. My problem: how to make the daylight A ) look real, yet B ) be a visible shaft of light that will match cut to a torch beam. To add to the problem, there is only about 3.5 feet of space between the window and the studio's concrete wall. The window is about seven feet high and the bed is in front of it, approx six feet away. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.