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I’ve always wanted to film a racing movie, I guess you could say i’m practicing. For profiles I think the Gh5 was set to the natural profile and then I used a combination of filmconvert and a couple little exposure and color tweaks per shot

Nice work, and I could feel the sound with headphones on. Lenses and mic selection certainly worked on the gh5.
 

Last year I posted a short highlight reel of Watkins Glen Vintage racing footage. This is an extended cut with no music, only engine sounds. Enjoy:
all GH5 with mostly the sir magic 25mm .95 A few wide shots with the Olympus 12mm.

This looks so cinematic to my eye!
I don't know if it's because of the unique event, location, live sound, good compositions or what else, but at least half of the shots definitely look like out of some car racing movie. Very nice
I see you've shared the lenses used, but what about picture profiles and your grading settings?

Last year I posted a short highlight reel of Watkins Glen Vintage racing footage. This is an extended cut with no music, only engine sounds. Enjoy:
all GH5 with mostly the sir magic 25mm .95 A few wide shots with the Olympus 12mm.

Yeah you had to hesitate a bit by lowering the RPM just to up shift. You had to take pressure off the gears, and then just force it into a higher gear. No hesitation or it would grind like hell. I think the car weighed somewhere around 1200 pounds and had around 500 horsepower. I know some had even more HP than that back in the day. It was just pretty crazy. I have no clue how someone, and they did, drove one of those cars @ 100%.
It was just every thing you did was a near death experience with it! too much throttle the tires spun anywhere anyplace, too much brake it was all over the place, miss a gear hell you just about had to stop and start over. It was a car you could make No mistakes if you were driving it hard, which hell neither of us could ever do. He was faster than I was in it, but he was a better driver on anything we raced. He had talent, not super talent, and I was just a average Joe Blow driver. I also was married with kids, and he was single with no kids when he had this race car LoL.. We both had about 100 near death experiences racing different stuff!
And I can't exactly remember but he paid somewhere between 5000 to 7000 dollars for it. I seem to remember 5500 bucks. He owned so much stuff, he was worse than me, and that is saying something! Crazy. He was big on motorcycles. Not Harley's, we both hated them, British and Japanese 2 stroke, 4 stroke race bikes. We liked road race bikes. Car Probably worth a Million today. It ran great, and came with a ton of spares. Not much engine wise, but extra rims, tires, brake parts, extra nose, wings on and on. It had a 4 barrel carb on it, but the guy had the original Hilborn Injection, so that helped.
Later in SCCA they made people put a 4 barrel on them to help slow them down. They were scary fast with the injection on them. So I put the Injection on it for him a little later after we Tried it in the Slow mode LoL.. Slow my ass. It probably ONLY made 400 HP then. I can tell you you were nervous before you drove it, when you were driving it, and after you got out for 15 minutes LoL.  Seemed like your voice raised a whole octave when you got out!.It was a F ing experience. But it was addictive. You wanted more of it.
We only drove it off and on for maybe 4 or 5 years. I drove it maybe 18 times, he drove it maybe 50 times. Both of us, maybe on the same day would spin it or run off the track in it at speed. We came to realize that we would probably die if we kept driving it. And a good friend of ours that had a car like it crashed Hard at the same track we raced at a lot. The Indy Speedway, the infield track.  We did Mid Ohio a lot also. We got more scared it would be us. So he parked it in his garage for I guess 20 years or more, and when he got sick with Cancer he sold it. I have no clue to who or for how much. I never talked to him before he died, and I didn't Ever get along with his wife he married. I lived in Florida when all this happened. I was not even at his funeral. My Mother went to it, and she wrote me a letter about a week later and said, oh by the way, John died. Oh, OK LoL. Such is life.

The biggest problem we had with learning to drive the Gurney Eagle was the damn gearbox. It had a Hewland 5 speed crash box in it. Which has straight cut gears in it and No synchronizes.
The damn shifter handle was about 3 inches long LoL, and the gate was about 2 inches long, and hell it was double clutch up and down, matching RPM's. Jesus LoL. Try doing that going into a hairpin turn at 180 mph! I Never got comfortable with it and the brakes were so Damn good they would upset the geometry if you stabbed them, and then you were swerving like hell..It was a Hairy ass ride I can tell you that.

Wow what I would do to drive one of those! You put it wel though: kill to drive one, but it may kill you! Thanks for sharing your story, if you ever come up to watkins let me know! I’ll be going to the 6 hour race, nascar, and vintage GP this year

Wow some of those cars where back in my hay day LoL. I was a Crew Chief, Mechanic on a D sports racer, and a B sports racer class, different owners, in SCCA back in the mid early to mid 70's. I dove a Formula V racer for a bit. I sucked at it LoL. I was better turning wrenches on them than driving one.   Went all over the US for races with them. We won the Central Division once with the D sports racer in 1972 I think it was. That stuff was a Lot of fun, but damn time consuming getting them ready to race, and driving there and back.
I don't know if any of you watch that show "Chasing Classic Cars", but the old guy, my age LoL, he Might be a bit older, the mechanic Richard on it, was a Unbelievable Formula V driver at the same time I was in it with SCCA. He was just about unbeatable. But he was a super nice guy, helped anyone that needed it. I think he drove a formula B Brabham  BT16 a few times also? I would have killed for that race car LoL. It would have killed me I guess! 
My best friend and I used to race enduro Go Karts, they were fast as hell. I have a single engine that would do 120 mph on the straights, he had a twin engine one that would do 150 mph! , and he bought a Gurney Formula A race car, # 001, the first one ,Gurney Eagle Formula A, he Ever made. It had a Chevy 302 with Hilborn Injection on it. We drove from Ohio to California to pick it up. It was used, well used LoL but a beautiful car, Red as hell, it was blue and white to start with. I dove it a few times and it was scary as hell. We had it a few times up to 180 mph. He was a Lot better at it than I was was so he drove thank God! Crazy times. He was 4 years younger than I am, and just died of Cancer a few years ago. Scary stuff Cancer.
The car looked pretty much like this one. Hell could even be it for all I know?  Sure looks the same other than the color.  It had side Pods on it when we bought it. Had to, due to rules changes. Before he bought it it had been wrecked at Laguna Seca and ended up in a Tree!! It had been repaired before we bought it and raced after. We talked to Dan Gurney a bunch of times on the phone. He was a damn nice guy.

Last year I posted a short highlight reel of Watkins Glen Vintage racing footage. This is an extended cut with no music, only engine sounds. Enjoy:
all GH5 with mostly the sir magic 25mm .95 A few wide shots with the Olympus 12mm.

Last year I posted a short highlight reel of Watkins Glen Vintage racing footage. This is an extended cut with no music, only engine sounds. Enjoy:
all GH5 with mostly the sir magic 25mm .95 A few wide shots with the Olympus 12mm.

That is well shot film. I like how you just shot idling engines for longer time. I am a gearhead and I'd just listen and listen and you need to drag me away from a race track. I'd like to record some of the racing action this summer, but not sure what microphone would be good. I'm new to filmmaking, bought a Rode Videomic Pro Stereo, but no idea if it's up for the job.

Hey, thanks for watching! Now that we have a couple of these made we can show the artists to give them an idea for what we do, and schedule a time to film. Right now we're just trying to grow the channel and develop early content for the collective so short and sweet is the name of the game. I film the artist working on something and get a feel for how they react to the camera, then we do a quick interview and I pick out some points for the video.I try to keep the interviews short seeing as I'm shooting for about 2-5 min. final. 

These videos are so inspirational. A pleasure to watch.
Thanks for sharing!
 
How do you approach your talents?
Do you ask them to prepare some kind of 'speech' and then record it or is it more like an interview?

Just finished up the 5th episode, the series is growing!
 

Last year I posted a short highlight reel of Watkins Glen Vintage racing footage. This is an extended cut with no music, only engine sounds. Enjoy:
all GH5 with mostly the sir magic 25mm .95 A few wide shots with the Olympus 12mm.

Hey Eoshd, posted a couple months ago of a new web series on working artists I created with my friends at the UUU Art Collective. Our original chosen name was ART:WORKS which we really loved, however due to similarities with a local series called ART/WORK we decided to rebrand. We only lost a couple hundred views so in the grand scheme of things no big deal. So i'd like to share the first 3 episodes of our new series: WORK.
Repoussé
Mural Arts
 
Studio Photography
We're really trying to reach and inspire other freelance artists, filmmakers included. I may thrn the camera in on myself in a future episode. Cheers everyone!

Dude, I'm really surprised more here in this community aren't showing you some love for this. I've linked your website to some local filmmaking groups in my physical community. I can't thank you enough. I know how much time and effort goes into this type of stuff. 

nice review! short and to the point. keep em coming.

Nice!!  some beautiful shots in there, and the old sound clips add some philosophy as well as vintage texture..

The Sardinians taught me how to relax. 
GH5 and lots of 120fps. Through an SLR Magic 25mm .95 and the Vari ND

“Anyone can photograph nature”, a fashion photographer once said. “You just have to wait for the right light!” I disagree. In my opinion, there's more to that than meets the eye. This is the story of Latvian outdoor lifestyle photographer Filips Baumanis.
This is me attempting story-driven filmmaking for the first time, as previously I've mostly done landscape and travel content (a seen on www.eaglewoodfilms.com). Shot on the trusty Sony A6500 and Phantom 4 Pro for aerials. Did all the shooting, editing, grading and sound design myself.
Comments? Feedback? Fire away!
 

Thanks for the tips. I am sure practice is what I need the most, but it's good to know to focus on. When using full manual I sometimes forget that I have put the ISO to 6400 or that the white balance is set to a different setting, but I am sure the fastest way to stop doing these mistake is to keep on doing them until I learn.

No easy answer to this really. In the pressurised, high speed run & gun situation I use the histogram or waveform, and zebras, and with experience you should get better at getting exposure relatively consistent. 
I also shoot with everything on manual, usually setting my desired aperture and shutter speed and then constantly riding a vari ND to keep exposure under control.
Shooting log also helps as you can adjust a lot of exposure issues in post and rescue many shots.
Largely though it's just experience and getting used to what your camera works best with, and knowing your controls so you can do it all fast and intuitively.

I recently began running the instagram account @uuuartcollective and the team and I are launching a new short video series profiling working artists. Here's the first in the series. We'll have a new video each week for the foreseeable future. 
Tech specs: Shot on a gh5 with an sir magic 25mm .95, graded with film convert. This has been my go-to lens lately, I am loving the look so much I may buy the 17.5 after the next couple of gigs go through.
Enjoy guys! And keep creating.