Snake Hunting with Canon Glass- 300fps - R3D export from new Photoshop Cs6 Beta

[Dominik Muench]

Hey Guys

a friend came over today with his pet snake and canon mount (I believe its Pavel Achtels here from the forum ;), so we did a few camera tests with canon lenses and a kessler slider dolly on my new EPIC, here are a few frame grabs from the footage.

I imported the R3Ds into Photoshop CS6 and exported them as JPEGs.

these first two shots were taken with an 85mm Canon Tilt/Shift:
http://blacksun-productions.com/snake1.jpg
http://blacksun-productions.com/snake2.jpg

and this one with the 100mm F2.8 Canon Macro:
http://blacksun-productions.com/snake3.jpg

All shot in 5K-WS 5:1 compression, available light.


Here is a short clip with the kessler motorized dolly:

http://vimeo.com/39258102

and here a 300fps slowmo test:

http://vimeo.com/39258378

sorry about the blur, 100mm macro lens has one hell of DOF 0_o

[Tristan Houghton]

Looking good trouser!

[Matt White]

Those stills are amazing! Especially for using only available light. Nice work loved to 300fps clip. Made me jump :)

[Elizabeth Lowrey]

Nice shots, Dominik!

[Dominik Muench]

thank you guys, too bad i missed the closeup of the snake and the mouse, but damn these things move fast and tracking focus on a 100mm macro at F2,8 isn't fun. but i will try again next week when the snake is hungry again ^^

[Julien Deka]

Did you grad the video alos into Photoshop CS6, or just the stills?

Sorry if it sounds silly, but I know Photoshop CS6 has a new timeline and I don't know how it works for video… Anyway that looks pretty great to me.

[Dominik Muench]

Hey Julien,

there is no grading really, both stills and video are directly out of the camera, all I did was a slight levels adjustment, increased the contrast a bit and then exported JPEG stills from the timeline. as for the videos, i converted the RAW files in RedCineX into apple ProRes LT at full quality...took it into final cut pro, changed the size and converted it into h264 for a smaller file upload to vimeo.

I'm still getting the hang of CS6 as well as i just installed it yesterday but basically it allows you to open R3D files directly in photoshop and work on them like a stills image, you can apply your usual photoshop stills workflow with layers and all the other effects directly on the frames in your video timeline. neat stuff really ^^

[Pawel Achtel]

Hey guys, I'm glad you put the mount to a good use. Well done.

Beautiful python.....is it available for rent? I have a few mice awaiting him in my studio, LOL

[Joseph S.]

Amazing detail, as well as keeping focus. Did you just use the 5" touchscreen to focus?

Also, did you redo black shading for that specific 300fps shots? Or left it as it was from before?

Thanks
Joe

[Dominik Muench]

hey joe

yep i was just focusing by eye off the LCD.

no special black shading done, I only received my epic mid last week and have done one black shading so far.