Ask David Mullen ANYTHING

[David Mullen ASC]

It's one of those "if I had no other options" sort of situation. I'd prefer using lenses designed for cinema-style shooting and focus-pulling.

[Roberto Lequeux]

I guess my interest in playing a guessing game with an unreleased technology is limited because I've got more pressing things to learn and think about. When the EPIC becomes available, then I'll start worrying about 5K or 6K workflow and FF35 optics -- and read here how everyone else is dealing with it! Otherwise, when a discussion gets too detailed for an abstract topic, it becomes a time-waster. I think I've already mentioned the basic issues that will have to be addressed but to go into any more detail is pointless until the camera is released.

Absolutely. I thank you for the time you took to hypothesize as far as you already did.

[Gregory Lopez]

It's one of those "if I had no other options" sort of situation. I'd prefer using lenses designed for cinema-style shooting and focus-pulling.

I would dearly like to own a scarlet when they arrive at market, however, it would be difficult to own the lens as well. One lens company proports to modify still lens by "Re-Purposing, by adapting and upgrading them for use in Digital Cinema." What do you think of this as a substitute for cine-style lens?

Gregory

[David Mullen ASC]

I have no idea -- sounds good on paper but it really depends on the results.

[wicket]

Hi David, thanks for this great thread.

What kind (and output) of light would you use for this effect:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/...9641f0fe69.jpg

Shooting on a stage set, iso 320.

Thanks again,

John

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Hi David, thanks for this great thread.

What kind (and output) of light would you use for this effect:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/...9641f0fe69.jpg

Shooting on a stage set, iso 320.

Thanks again,

John

Hey John...

David talked about light setups to achieve similar results some time ago.

Here are the links:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpos...postcount=1388
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpos...postcount=1392

[Roberto Lequeux]

This is stunning David:


Thanks for linking Impagliazzo.

David, how much of the color palette was set design and wardrobe, and how much was done in post if at all?

If some was done in post, how much and which other colors where in the frame?

[wicket]

Thanks Impagliazzo, someone should set up a glossary for this thread.

[David Mullen ASC]

David, how much of the color palette was set design and wardrobe, and how much was done in post if at all?

If some was done in post, how much and which other colors where in the frame?

All that was done in-camera with art direction and wardrobe other than a diffusion overlay I added in Photoshop to the still frame (from my Nikon D40X, this is not a frame from the RED camera). The beam of light was from two Joker-800 HMI Source-4's off-camera, thru smoke.

[David Mullen ASC]

Hi David, thanks for this great thread.

What kind (and output) of light would you use for this effect:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/...9641f0fe69.jpg

Shooting on a stage set, iso 320.

Thanks again,

John

Any bright punchy light through smoke would work, just depends on how parallel you want the rays to be - either you need to back up the light and thus use something really bright, or use something that produces straight rays like a Xenon, or a cluster of Source-4's with narrow lenses, if you don't mind a blend of multiple rays.