From hdforindies: Want more stills from a Red? I got more stills from a Red

[Stu Maschwitz]

odd.. that red footage.. what did it happen on your red alert offhollywood?..

Exactly the right thing.

-Stu

[Michael Schrengohst]

we didn't take the time to even try the zebras or false color - we now have mastered getting a "perfect" histogram by using FALSE COLOR - our images we are shooting now are WAY better than the car stuff we shot -

Re-shoot!!

[Stu Maschwitz]

we didn't take the time to even try the zebras or false color - we now have mastered getting a "perfect" histogram by using FALSE COLOR - our images we are shooting now are WAY better than the car stuff we shot -

That's great to hear, but there's nothing wrong with the images on Mike's blog—they look exactly as they should. I brought them into my film grading pipeline and they behaved perfectly and produced some really lovely corrected images. And that is all that matters.

People are going to have to get used to the fact that the images they shoot with RED One are not meant to "look good" without some serious post-processing—in fact, as we discussed here, the best RED One images are often the ones that "look" the worst to your eye.

-Stu

[Mike Prevette]

That's going to be so hard to convince people of on set. A few years of HD and they have forgot what a video tap looks like. I can't wait to see the LUT system put into effect for the monitoring.

_mike

[David Battistella]

we didn't take the time to even try the zebras or false color - we now have mastered getting a "perfect" histogram by using FALSE COLOR - our images we are shooting now are WAY better than the car stuff we shot -

Mark,

Are one or two of those stills posted anywhere? Is it possible to post a DPX, as Graeme Natress suggested(they are much faster in pshop than tiffs).


Thanks so much for the updates, it's so generous and considerate.

David

[Mark L. Pederson]

That's great to hear, but there's nothing wrong with the images on Mike's blog—they look exactly as they should. I brought them into my film grading pipeline and they behaved perfectly and produced some really lovely corrected images. And that is all that matters.

People are going to have to get used to the fact that the images they shoot with RED One are not meant to "look good" without some serious post-processing—in fact, as we discussed here, the best RED One images are often the ones that "look" the worst to your eye.

-Stu

Thanks Stu -

Everyone at Offhollywood is a fan of your work - so, your compliment means a lot - thanks!!

What I should have said was "we are now getting great images more CONSISTANTLY than our car shoot" - and we got TONS of great stuff on that shoot, but we did under-exposed some stuff - I think we were just paranoid - worried about the sun -

It takes a bit to get use to "shooting for the best dynamic range" - but once you do - post is FUN!!

The FALSE COLOR feature on the camera works fantastic for setting the exposure for best dynamic range -

[Mark L. Pederson]

Mark,

Are one or two of those stills posted anywhere? Is it possible to post a DPX, as Graeme Natress suggested(they are much faster in pshop than tiffs).


Thanks so much for the updates, it's so generous and considerate.

David

There's a little taste in public folder of my iDisk -

Member's name: offhollywood

I haven't gotten official permission yet from the production company - but I'll leek this one out anyway - this was the very first test shot from today - we let Mike Curtis operate the camera - set up along side a 35mm on the set of a Asian cosmetics commercial - set the exposure using false color feature of the camera -

pop it in photoshop, auto levels, crush the blacks a bit .... yeah ...

as soon as I get "official" premission Mike Curtis will post a bunch more on his site on Monday -

[Mike Prevette]

Mark,


That still is fantastic! I don't think there is a 35mm shot in the world that can match that. I loaded it into AE and dropped it onto a SD timeline. At 25% i might add so it filled frame top to bottom. It was unreal. almost too good :] I can't wait for this damn camera.

What lens?

_mike

[David Battistella]

There's a little taste in public folder of my iDisk -

Member's name: offhollywood

I haven't gotten official permission yet from the production company - but I'll leek this one out anyway - this was the very first test shot from today - we let Mike Curtis operate the camera - set up along side a 35mm on the set of a Asian cosmetics commercial - set the exposure using false color feature of the camera -

pop it in photoshop, auto levels, crush the blacks a bit .... yeah ...

as soon as I get "official" premission Mike Curtis will post a bunch more on his site on Monday -

Mark,

Kind of you to reply and post. The shot looks great!
Many thanks.

David

[Mark L. Pederson]

Mark,


That still is fantastic! I don't think there is a 35mm shot in the world that can match that. I loaded it into AE and dropped it onto a SD timeline. At 25% i might add so it filled frame top to bottom. It was unreal. almost too good :] I can't wait for this damn camera.

What lens?

_mike

75mm Cooke S4 Prime