Christian Ekrem

Some feedback would be great, guys - I would really appreciate it! :)

"Some of my work from first half of 2011. Shot on RED, DSLRS and 16mm film. Comments are very welcome " Read more: http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=52117#ixzz1PMCuJ7ZW

"Some of my work from first half of 2011. Shot on RED, DSLRS and 16mm film. Comments are very welcome :)"

Thanks a lot! Well, I wanted some of the highlights on the bride to be a little bit blown out, but I found it hard to adjust the highlight rolloff on the DPX to make it look exactly the way I wanted. Perhaps I overdid it a bit and should have kept more detail. I'll look into it! Juicy details: Carl Zeiss superspeeds 16mm & 9mm, Ultraprime 6mm Fuji Eterna vivid 500T I had 122 meters of film, so about 10 minutes. Ended up using 100m! :)

My first experience with film, shot on 16mm super with an ARRI SR 3. The film is in exactly one minute. I have my thoughts on what I like and what I don't, but I want to hear what you guys have to say first :) It was fun! Shooting film made me feel alive. http://vimeo.com/21347907/

I received some feedback from some people at the reduser forum, so I've updated the reel a bit. It's shorter, and hopefully better! :) Check it out: http://vimeo.com/cekrem/showreel I also changed the thumbnail picture to a more neutral one...

I received some feedback from some people at the reduser forum, so I've updated the reel a bit. It's shorter, and hopefully better! :) Check it out: http://vimeo.com/cekrem/showreel

Thank you! The dolly is a PVC tube-based thing, not too great actually. Usually I need a few takes to get it right cause it's a bit shaky and the joints aren't as smooth as one would hope. But when it works, it works! :D I think we've got about 60 feet of "tracks" now, that's kind of cool. hehe

Thank you! :)

Shots from a few of my 2010 films. Mostly RED ONE and Canon 550D. No grading, except warm "printer lights" on entire reel. Comments are welcome, but not mandatory. :)

Shots from a few of my 2010 films. Mostly RED ONE and Canon 550D. No grading, except warm "printer lights" on entire reel. Comments are welcome, but not mandatory. :)

Thanks a lot to the both of you! Appreciated! You're absolutely right, it's not a complete reel yet by any means. I wanted to shoot 3 more settings, but didn't finish in time. But thanks for the comments on what I did finish. I think it's right to say that I like my pictures a little surreal and not quite ordinary. Perhaps it's something I should work even more on, to make it a more thorough trademark. I'll think about it! But thanks!!

To clearify: I did not do this one on Final Cut. I cut (and graded) this one with Adobe Premiere CS 5. :)

No, I didn´t do a lot. I did white balance manipulations in-camera, and tweaked the gamma/contrast on a few shots in post (Premiere). I also avoided the super-flat canon picture styles. Basically I tried getting it right in the camera as much as possible as it was mostly a "cinematography" project. By the way, being a hardcore Final Cut (+color) user, the native transcode-free workflow of CS5 blew me away, especially dealing with RED footage. Saved a lot of time in post, which allowed me to spend more time shooting! :)

Thanks a lot! Everything outside (except the one shot when the girl has the black jacket on) is the 550d. It obviously can´t take as much grading as the RED-footage, but I like the look of it!