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Doesn't matter for most wedding clients. The stuff is manufactured and augmented fantasy...people want to look idealized. If you get a director that can tap into the other stuff too, you've hired a winner. But that's such a savvy skill to have. Anyone THAT good is most likely doing real work. --probably ain't spending weekends making brides look glam.

I think the main idea when discussion like this come up is that many shooters want to emulate cinema style production "on the fly," or documentary run-n-gun style. It's tricky but doable. This look is accomplished with shooting skill first and foremost. You know, things like understanding how to use natural light, framing, sequence shooting, dolly emulation, etc. As mentioned, any recent camera will do. Some tools give one a bit more post production flexibility, but it really just comes down to the shooter's decisions on location. And, yeah, an easy initial trick is to do slow-mo with a long lens and shallow DOF... but that's only a starting point...

FWIW, I'm shooting a gig right now where I make the GH5 look as non-cinematic as possible. VIVID color profile 8-bit @60p. Looks great! ;-)

My 2 cents is that the notion that conservatives are somehow being silenced is a bit silly. Their voices are often the loudest and most boisterous in the USA. They have ample representation in the media as well. The USA had a strong moderate attitude after WWII because it was tempered by the conflict and post war economic boom. I believe modern citizens actually have it better these days, but perceived slights are embraced and railed upon simply because of a weird human desire to justify ourselves. ...not unlike a newbie camera owner rationalizing their purchase by bad mouthing a different piece of gear. And, look, the Internet is a shell game. It's evolved into a manipulative and exploitive tool because it can be. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fake-polls-are-a-real-problem/ Some citizens have the ability to be aware of this, others never will be. The 'others' will never ever ever be in short supply. Some people are skeptics. Some people are willfully gullible. So it is, so it has ever been. --don't see that changing as long as humanity exists.

I don't know what it is, but I give the edge to Fuji. Not that I dislike my 5D, just kinda dig what I get out of this XPro2.

A lot of people poop their pants for Canon color, but imho the Fuji looks better. And while I think the pany colors are decent, but Fuji just looks awesome most of the time.

Understanding lighting and the shape/texture of light is an acquired skill. That's pretty much the simple answer, but a comprehension of what that particularly means takes study. I had a few semesters of art school that got me going years ago. I was a terrible artist, but it set me thinking about light. Getting a handle on what light is, how we perceive it, and what it does for your motion picture image is one of the things that separates legitimate filmmakers from others. I wish I could summarize what "good lighting" means, but it's so contextual and subjective...you just got to learn it on your own. FWIW, I'd do the light on set with direct consideration of what your background plate(s) looks like. Adding effective shadow and highlights on a moving subject is a PITA.

Since you're doing 2D type animation stuff, I'd recommend shooting long focal lengths. This will "sit" better in the eventual composition. I made a green screen project a few years back wherein we tried the short lens look. Didn't like it at all and threw out all those shots. Edge distortion was awkward. And, FWIW, we shot vertical too. Also, an art direction thing to consider: Your subject is darker than the background. As a rule of thumb, to make the image easier to look at, reverse that. Not that you need to always do this, just a consideration. Working in the virtual realm like you're doing gives you complete control over your "lighting." Make sure you exploit it.

We'll see how that goes. I don't dislike Panny's IBIS, but I don't love it either. It drifts a bit. Not bad for some things, frustrating for others. You need to engage digital stabilization to settle any sort of handheld jitters above a focal length of 25mm. BTW, I often use a OIS 14-140 Panny lens which activates the tandem "dual" OS-IS stabilization when turned on...not that impressive, tbh.

I'm curious...

My wife is shooting xpro2 right now for a gig. She's b-cam. If I have time I'll upload some footage. We're on the Isles of Scilly, so some nice beachy images...

Because it looks better.

I've used Fuji for paid gigs. X-pro2. Works okay. Not reliable image. Odd distortion with edges of frames and the Fuji wide angle lens. Anything with auto exposure will result in "step" adjustments. Not smooth changes. Its useable, but doesn't exactly inspire confidence or allow flexibility. Needs exposure compensation in post, and you have to adjust the native files. If your workflow happens to involve a transcode before editing, you're gonna have an issue to deal with insofar as you'll have to adjust levels while transcoding or you're gonna have a lot of detail lost in the blacks and highlights. Most folks don't work this way these days, so most likely that's a moot point, but still mentioning it just in case...using FCP7 ain't a viable option, for instance. Color sure is purty tho'

From SanDiego and traveling Europe while doing a few odd jobs. Picking up stuff here for a self-funded documentary. Basic stuff before heading to the Netherlands and U.K. For additional gigs. Done in a few hours here in Berlin then moving on!

Just in for a day and a half. Passing through for an afternoon shoot. would love to explore a major city's swap meet though. I'm always a sucker for old lenses...

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I did everything handheld, but you could do it off the tripod of course, depends what you're going for.

Yes. Thank you!

Hi All, Heading to Berlin tomorrow. Would like to get a few more GH5 batteries and maybe even another X-Pro2 bat. Can anyone recommended store where I can pop in quickly and definitely find 'em? Thanks in advance.

Yeah, f'da internet these days. Not happy at how it's been callously appropriated by wanton algorithmic enterprise. I understand it and why it's happening, but certainly don't appreciate the results, even though I'm guilty as everyone else of being manipulated by it...and manipulating it to my own advantage, if I'm being honest. The world is currently in a mode where rewarding BS is status quo. (maybe that's our default mode anyway) And until things change somehow, the whole thing is devolving. Minimizing individualism is, in my mind, minimizing humanity in general. Perhaps that's our path, but I'm old, so it's my right to think everything's going to hell. At the end of the day, aggregation is theft and the only way to attempt to curb it is probably to regulate. That absolutely wouldn't be possible nor effective anyway.

Good idea. Go out there and make something. Also, there's nothing wrong with shooting non-stabilized handheld footage. I love IBIS, but I don't always want to use it. Sometimes you just need that organic energy of handheld. I'm partial to longer focal lengths regardless. Must be my personality. Close but keeping my distance, y'know?

It got shot. Judging by how long it's taken this far that means post will be done in 2020.

I like what you're doing here. Looks good. There's an alternative method to creating the same technique that I've employed in the past (used it on a low budget CBS promo I made a decade ago) Basically I wanted to create the look of sequential time-lapse but shooting with a video camera. (all I had at the time) So, I shot scenes wherein I had the subject(s) stand still in the middle of San Fransisco and I would then slowly walk toward them, around them, behind them, etc. People would swirl around 'em and sometimes I'd shoot through traffic, etc. At the end of a single shot I would have about 30 seconds of video. I took that 30 seconds, sped it up in post so it lasted 3 seconds...and *this is the important part* applied a 6 frame strobe effect to the clip. Viola': it looked like image sequence time-lapse. Which, when you think about it, is exactly what it is anyway. *note: to really heighten the look, I shot with a very slow shutter. 1/3, I think. Anyway, that adds a lot of cool motion blur, enhancing the "looks like a photo" effect. So, with any footage you can adjust the speed, (ramping up footage makes it look more like time lapse) add a strobe effect filter to hold frames on screen for however long you prefer, and there you go. Play around with it. It's easy and it works. No need to torture your stills camera. Just shoot and then build it easily in post. BTW, the CBS promo spot was pretty lame to be honest, but figuring out a new process to emulate time lapse was fun.

Yup. It's a fun technique: http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=162950

Trying to make a "filmmaker" living as the industry is getting turned upside down is a challenge. I feel for the young grunts paying their dues in this way. Doesn't seem like a lot of fun. You can't run a website long term with constant 20-something turnover, and exploitation of those folks. The quality will just be too marginal to be compelling. People appreciate and comprehend quality, whatever form it takes. If no one at NFS is mature or talented enough to offer some sort of insight worth considering, why read it? Superficial stuff might get you instant numbers, but if nothing is worth sticking around for then those numbers (people) will drift after a different shining thing. And the internet has quickly become mostly superficial shiny things. I mean, I'm guilty of filling my head with online nonsense for no other reason than I have time to kill. "Hey, I better see what's new and pooping out of the outrage machine! It's been 30 minutes since I last looked!" Bad reason. In contrast, EOSHD is a simple yet legitimate site. The pace here is organic and justifiably so. The site could also easily last as long as the owner wants it to.