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[FHDcrew]

25 minutes ago, PPNS said:

you guys are getting a monitor pic from me since i’m not grading the last project i dp’d.

 

i think lighting wise this looks nice, but framing wise i would set up the camera a bit higher, and then angle it down slightly to make this man look a bit better. I personally wouldnt center frame interviews, but i don’t necessarily mind it either. Ideally i also wouldn’t show anything beneath the logo of the football team to get a proper medium close up. I think most of your work looks good, and this is personal preference, i think you should consider stopping down more. I think you would benefit from having to shoot at f/5.6 on that big of a sensor and getting to see your background a bit more.

Appreciate the feedback man!  And at this point I agree about the camera placement, not the first person to point that out 😏

[hyalinejim]

Whenever I'm doing interviews I check to see what direction the light is going in and therefor what directions the camera might point. Then I find a background I like and frame that up with the camera at the height of the interviewee's head and at around 70-135mm full frame equivalent. Then I place the person within the frame, moving them forward or back, left and right until I get the composition I want. If it's an off-centre framing then I'll get them to angle their hips and shoulders towards the other side of the frame slightly.

And I always try to shoot people standing as I think it looks better - they're less likely to slump or slouch than when sitting. This works well until I get someone who hops and jumps about and gradually crawls closer to the camera.

One thing I've learned is that there's no perfect interview location. But good enough is good enough!

Available light, S5II, EF 70-200 f4.

[PPNS]

2 hours ago, hyalinejim said:

Whenever I'm doing interviews I check to see what direction the light is going in and therefor what directions the camera might point. Then I find a background I like and frame that up with the camera at the height of the interviewee's head and at around 70-135mm full frame equivalent. Then I place the person within the frame, moving them forward or back, left and right until I get the composition I want. If it's an off-centre framing then I'll get them to angle their hips and shoulders towards the other side of the frame slightly.

And I always try to shoot people standing as I think it looks better - they're less likely to slump or slouch than when sitting. This works well until I get someone who hops and jumps about and gradually crawls closer to the camera.

One thing I've learned is that there's no perfect interview location. But good enough is good enough!

Available light, S5II, EF 70-200 f4.

I think these are really good too, but i think they would look even better if you had the darker side of the face towards the camera. You’re looking for natural contrast in light which is what it’s all about, but if you put the person from still 1 in the same position as the lady from still 2 with the same background and lighting condition as you had before, that would be something i would prefer myself. The same with still 2, if you just put her in the right side of the frame, and rotate her 180 degrees.

[kye]

Definitely agree about shooting into the darker side of the subjects face, as @PPNS suggests, if you have control of the lighting etc.

I'm also wondering @hyalinejim if you could get the fidgeters to stand right next to a desk so they had their thighs/belly against the edge?  Maybe that would stop them moving around so much?  It would also help keep them in focus too 🙂 

[hyalinejim]

On 4/22/2023 at 6:27 PM, PPNS said:

 i think they would look even better if you had the darker side of the face towards the camera. You’re looking for natural contrast in light

Yes, I see what you mean. That way the light is coming from the direction of the negative space, where the subject is looking to. I like that idea and hadn't really considered it before. I'm going to try to add that into the recipe. This particular day was a bit of a scramble with a bunch of interview subjects lining up for the their five minute piece to camera. Then I'm trying to quickly make decisions on how to vary the background, while keeping the lighting nice and alternating between left and right placement. But I should totally be able, as you suggest, to add this consideration into the mix - that light is coming from the side they're looking towards.

On 4/22/2023 at 6:27 PM, PPNS said:

if you just put her in the right side of the frame, and rotate her 180 degrees

LOL! Did you mean 90 degrees? I could ask her to do a 360 and walk away 😂

2 hours ago, kye said:

if you could get the fidgeters to stand right next to a desk

Well, I often joke that photography/videography is 90% moving furniture!

[SRV1981]

On 4/22/2023 at 11:14 AM, hyalinejim said:

Whenever I'm doing interviews I check to see what direction the light is going in and therefor what directions the camera might point. Then I find a background I like and frame that up with the camera at the height of the interviewee's head and at around 70-135mm full frame equivalent. Then I place the person within the frame, moving them forward or back, left and right until I get the composition I want. If it's an off-centre framing then I'll get them to angle their hips and shoulders towards the other side of the frame slightly.

And I always try to shoot people standing as I think it looks better - they're less likely to slump or slouch than when sitting. This works well until I get someone who hops and jumps about and gradually crawls closer to the camera.

One thing I've learned is that there's no perfect interview location. But good enough is good enough!

Available light, S5II, EF 70-200 f4.

Gorgeous 

[Benjamin Hilton]

 

 

Here are just a few of the projects I've created recently

[kye]

3 hours ago, hyalinejim said:

Yes, I see what you mean. That way the light is coming from the direction of the negative space, where the subject is looking to. I like that idea and hadn't really considered it before. I'm going to try to add that into the recipe. This particular day was a bit of a scramble with a bunch of interview subjects lining up for the their five minute piece to camera. Then I'm trying to quickly make decisions on how to vary the background, while keeping the lighting nice and alternating between left and right placement. But I should totally be able, as you suggest, to add this consideration into the mix - that light is coming from the side they're looking towards.

LOL! Did you mean 90 degrees? I could ask her to do a 360 and walk away 😂

Well, I often joke that photography/videography is 90% moving furniture!

To elaborate a bit more on the lighting discussion, I heard about shooting on the shadow side from Wandering DP, who does excellent cinematography breakdowns on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/@wanderingdp/videos

I went through a phase of binging his videos and although I couldn't find a good self-contained example of him talking about it, just look at all the thumbnails on the videos of his channel and you'll see that in most of them you are looking at the shadow side of their face (just look at their nose).

I highly highly recommend his stuff if you haven't seen it - he's obviously a working pro and his videos contain just as much talk about how to light so you can work faster and deal with the sun moving throughout the shoot day as he does talking about how to get things to look nice (they actually go together too rather than competing with each other).

[mercer]

Idk, as much as I like the idea of putting the camera facing portion in shadow, for a corporate interview, it may be a harder sell to clients?

[hyalinejim]

33 minutes ago, mercer said:

it may be a harder sell to clients?

I'll just tell them the light is coming from the "business side" 😃

[PPNS]

2 hours ago, mercer said:

Idk, as much as I like the idea of putting the camera facing portion in shadow, for a corporate interview, it may be a harder sell to clients?

i've done it a bunch. not going to pretend these are amazing or anything, but it's absolutely justifiable to light boring shit this way

[mercer]

4 minutes ago, PPNS said:

i've done it a bunch. not going to pretend these are amazing or anything, but it's absolutely justifiable to light boring shit this way

Nice, those look good. Subtle. For some reason I was imagining more negative fill like some kind of film noir interview. 

[kye]

6 hours ago, PPNS said:

i've done it a bunch. not going to pretend these are amazing or anything, but it's absolutely justifiable to light boring shit this way

Nice..  subtle, but these have good shape.

6 hours ago, mercer said:

Nice, those look good. Subtle. For some reason I was imagining more negative fill like some kind of film noir interview. 

The WanderingDP examples are typically a lot darker than you'd want for corporate work.  Maybe that's what you were thinking of 🙂 

[QuickHitRecord]

One of my favorite projects from 2022 (I just wish they used a better thumbnail):

 

[kye]

1 hour ago, QuickHitRecord said:

One of my favorite projects from 2022 (I just wish they used a better thumbnail):

 

Great job!  This has that quality where everything seems to flow nicely and the film-making doesn't draw attention to itself, which is a lot easier said than done.

[QuickHitRecord]

6 hours ago, kye said:

Great job!  This has that quality where everything seems to flow nicely and the film-making doesn't draw attention to itself, which is a lot easier said than done.

Much appreciated, Kye. I had fun with this. I do my share of corporate talking heads but THIS is what I like to do. I even added a line to my website about offering a special rate for conservation and climate-related projects.

[Happy Daze]

A collection of some clips captured in and around some local parks in the past few weeks.

Shot in Blackmagic RAW (BRAW) using:

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera - BMPCC 6K G2.

Blackmagic Video Assist 12G 5 inch connected to the Panasonic S1 & S5.

Lenses: Panasonic 24-105, Sigma 150-600mm (L Mount), Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm Macro (72B).

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoy.

 

 

[OleB]

My first production for a restaurant. Was very exciting. Had to go minimal, maximum one light, as the kitchen was quite busy. 🍚

 

[PannySVHS]

Tasty:) Sigma FP? What recording mode? @OleB Would love to see the moving images. Beautiful colours. What lenses did you use? My apologies for my stakkato style of writing and asking. cheers 🙂

[OleB]

4 minutes ago, PannySVHS said:

Tasty:) Sigma FP? What recording mode? @OleB Would love to see the moving images. Beautiful colours. What lenses did you use? My apologies for my stakkato style of writing and asking. cheers 🙂

Thank you! 🙂 Indeed SIGMA fp. 12bit ProRes RAW with my own LUT (shared in the other thread). In this case I have used the iSeries 65mm f2 DG DN. Moving images will follow tomorrow. Have the official release to the restaurant owners scheduled for tomorrow lunch time.