Rajavel Mohan

Can you believe what made me cut this! - The Music track which i saw on the Davinci Resolve Website. 

Check out and give me your kind feedback on my shots from few of my feature films ! (apologies for few overly saturated shots-was done for youtube compression)

thank you all

Rajavel Mohan

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51 minutes ago, David Mullen ASC said:

This day scene shows what I'm dealing with when lighting through that window, there's a fire escape with staircase and a 10' drop below:

I liked how this day scene turned out, we covered the top of the air shaft set with a diffusion frame and put blue on a 5K hitting it for a cold skylight effect, then on the opposite brick wall just above the frame, we put two trombone arms and hung two 1K spot PARCAN's to hit the two halves of the window as a backlight. And the shot starts out panned to the left into the room, which was only lit by the glow of the PARCANs hitting the window shade and bouncing off of the floor and window frames. By the time they get to the window, they are just filled in with all the ambient bounce from the backlight.

omg...this is absolutely stunning piece of imagery ! it feels sooo fresh and lovely !

On 8/12/2020 at 11:22 PM, Stuart Brereton said:

So, I'm putting together a Pocket 6k package for a friend who is planning to shoot a low budget movie with it. Since there is a chance I'll be the one shooting it for him, I want to get it to a usable state for either tripod or handheld use. He already has the camera, and lenses are taken care of. He also has some sort of Tilta cage for it. I'm looking for recommendations for all the other stuff. Matteboxes, Viewfinders, AC monitors, batteries, handheld rigs, etc etc. What are your favorite rigs?

Also looking for any tech tips from users of this camera. Any known gotchas? Glitches? Insanely annoying quirks?

Thanks all.

Hi Stuart, what lens have you got for the 6k camera? the lil experiment i had done with bmpc 4k worked wonders with the raw. check link for 4k output. (few shots on sony a73). Am seriously looking to buy 6K. Looking forward for your work on 6K ! wishes. 

1 hour ago, David Mullen ASC said:

Yes, I had a scene with a bed in the foreground that wasn't near the window but I did a soft backlight from above using a half-blue Litemat 2L, plus some half-blue light raking through the window across the background. Next to the Litemat 2L above was a second softlight, maybe a tungsten light in a long skinny Chimera, that dimmed up when the door to the kitchen in the background opened to suggest the room got brighter from the spill from the next room:

Sir David, Love the way you moulded the face of the person on bed with a soft top light (on both looks). I feel the light on the white table could have been reduced or altogether cut off ..and just let the light on the flower vase and door way. More intense focus would have been there for the face which is slightly getting robbed by the white table of draws. This is significant only in the first shot. Love the way the chair gets a highlight (adding 3 dimensional quality)  along with increasing the depth with the backlight for the person at the open door. The best part is the 'Eye light' of the person in bed really captures the mood of that character without a single word uttered. Also am thinking do we need that much light on the pillow!? am i being too finicky! Thanks for sharing the images...it got me to do some 'lighting in head' after a while. ?

Yes its best to stick to what Mr Phil Rhodes says 'Stay in your lane'.  Any suggestion on script is usually not taken in a good spirit. I realised two things. One is that ppl are generally in a defensive state of mind when it comes to their own creations. Two is that i realised, script is too big an ocean and highly challenging on its own...so there can be absolutely no small suggestion. Any suggestion will require to reanalyse the script at a very deep level and its always too late to get that deep when we are already going to be shooting in a few days! So any suggestion coming is not gonna be effective. So Stay in your lane !