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Dimitrios Koukas

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About Dimitrios Koukas

  • Birthday 04/15/1969

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  • Occupation
    Cinematographer
  • Location
    Athens, Greece, London UK
  • Specialties
    Lighting design, aerial cinematography, music and airplanes.

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  1. All ''soups'' have limits. Labs know when to change ingredients.
  2. Did you tried to friendly ''tap'' the camera? Or even Slap it? ? No worries it won't get hurt.
  3. It has been a long time since I did this... But you re saying that you have slightly offset the grid in second exposure run? Or it is my bad English maybe.
  4. Foreground not moving a lot, backgound is. So you need both to make this work for you. ?
  5. You need to go only with the lenses you are sure that are in focus and drop the others for this production, or use higher t-stops when possible. And ok sometimes focusing thru the viewfinder is reliable, but what if you have to use a POLA and one 85N3? You won't be able to see much of your image thru this...
  6. Hello, The only thing that is quiet noticable in Jordan's video is that it's been litted overhead (you can see this by the shadows in the general shots). Is it possible for you to use the excisting lights? Do you need a lot of footcandles? I mean do you have slow motion shots? If not, use the overhead court lights (some of them) only to light the court and not the audience seats. Are you going to schedule it for daytime? Or you are shooting at night? Is there any daylight coming in that you need to cut out? Can you post a photo of the court?
  7. Nice work Ricky, I liked the ''cold'' look all the way. Pretty nice handling of the snow scenes and the night exteriors. Also liked the way your main character was lit, half bright and half dark as his personality. ;)
  8. Hi, As you well know from my previous posts I am not doing very well in explainning things :) , I am just having a weird green frame bug in my timeline and both in my rendered material, but not in trimmer window, or from an external player like VLC, when I am playng the file. Only happens when in timeline and after exporting the material. It was shot with Sony XDCAM and files were grabbed for FCP (.mov) and then converted back to MXF. The production company have re-writed/formated the blu-rays !! so now this is all I ve got to work. Any help would be appreciated. I ve tried in Vegas 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 but with no results.
  9. Sorry for my bad English Alejandro, yes we are saying the same... There are many more factors that can affect the measurment, but it's just an advice for a quick setup. Even if I manage to have a wrong rating let's say 1/3 of an f/stop down this will make me rate a camera that is 800 ISO to 700 or something? I believe that I can make my shoot even with this.? Sorry for not beeing so accurate. Dim
  10. Let's make a tube camera then... Now that we don't have any software to do this... ;)
  11. Most of the times if you have an even lit gray card and a full frame of it, auto iris will not give you a measurment that is not more than 1/3 of an f/ stop up-down. 1/3 is a big difference if you are stating this, but it's very rare to get this false reading... :) And yes, I am not talking for a gray card that has been exposed to sunlight for three years... Dim
  12. If your DP has to do lighting plots, set up studio scenes and he cannot be there, just shoot on a gray card and press auto iris to get an f-stop, then rate it. Measure the reflected light from the card with a spotmeter or reflex meter, this will give you the ''iso'' for this measure. Then use this ISO to set-up your lighting plots. Otherwise, Mr David Williams is right, just use the on camera meter. Especially for landscapes. I am not using the cameras meter though, I am just using the zebra settings or a waveform to have a continuity between my scenes. E.g: 67% on actors face. Dim
  13. And what about the ''comet'' effect that you get shooting every single highlight?? I don't thing that you will never manage to reduce this. Dim
  14. Luis, What is the theme/scene? Is it only people? Is it a car? Do you have action? Stedicam? travellings? Dim
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