Flashdance
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Mount Kinabalu sunrise + Californication…
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Phew, long time since my last post – I really should be doing this more often.
Big change has happened recently – about two months ago I moved to San Diego, California where I am working in a high end Advertising studio retouching and assisting on shoots for some of the biggest brands in the world!
Certainly a big step up from the quieter scene in Perth, but there are things about shooting in Perth – namely the adventures about town shooting abandoned buildings with my good friends and the amazing people I had the opportunity to meet and work with – that I do miss.
Anyway, I have oodles of shots from Borneo and other places to work through and I have a number of projects I’ll be shooting whilst over here – stay tuned.
In the meantime, here is an image that more accurately reflects the feeling of being on the summit of Mount Kinabalu at 4:30am than the last one I posted – it was cold, real cold!
till next time…
5D mkII video crushed blacks – Quicktime 7.6 fixes things…
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One of the big issues that didn’t raise itself in many forum discussions besides those amongst purebred filmmakers (as opposed to stills photographers) is that most of the video samples around the web from the 5D mkII suffered from very high contrast and in turn – low dynamic range. The deep blacks and high contrast is appealing in some scenes, though like in photography, filmmakers like to capture a flat image initially, introducing contrast in post production. Unfortunately, the default black point on the 5D mkII appeared to wipe out all detail in the deep shadows. Known as ‘crushed blacks’ this was a big issue for many filmmakers who were looking to use the 5D for their work.
Thankfully, apple’s latest iteration of their quicktime codec addresses this issue. Download quicktime 7.6 here and read about the issue in more depth here.
Away
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I’ll be away until the 26th of September. I should have intermittent access to email, so if you need to get in touch with me, send through an email to dean@deanbradshaw.com.au
See you later!
