[Michael Palmer]

Ron,
I know nothing about music other than what I like. You bring a perspective that I wasn’t paying attention to or capable of commenting on. Thank you for the kind words for my work, i would love to keep shooting more of this cinematic style HD using my EX3 and the new Nano Flash.

I will post my (secret) picture profiles soon for those who have asked.

Michael

[Michael Palmer]

Still $299 is a great value for an inverter 2000 watt generator.
I think I’ll pick one up.

Michael

[Michael Palmer]

You should get 2 of these if they are only $150 each, I’m on the phone right now to my HD right now looking for them.

Should be plenty for one 1200 hmi

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

Thanks to all for the kind words, we shot this all in one day starting in Venice then jumped on that bus to Malibu for the wilderness/teepee scenes.

My job was to direct the photography and yes I lit a good portion of the scenes. I used a combination of HMI’s and LED’s. I was lucky to have my gaffer and BB from my Animal Planet series helping me with the lighting on this, they earned their day rate as I did.

I had nothing to do with the edit however I was invited to direct the color correction but I was not able to make it. I would have deepened the blacks with a little more contrast and I did suggest the bleach look for her close ups.

To Ron’s comment, my creative input was only for the images and I must say this song didn’t drive me nuts like most do at the end of the day. I think Kate is extremely talented and it was a pleasure to work with her and her management.

I decided to shot 720 24p and use the EX3 overcranking abilities (to 48 frames) for slowing down the motion on selected shots. I hired a steadycam owner operator who was fantastic, and I hand held for many of the shots at her camp ground do to time constraints with setup time with the steadycam.

I rented the Encore lens adapter from EVS together with a set of Zeiss lenses (24, 35, 50, 85, 135, 300) and I was impressed by the look we were able to get. Many here know I had purchased the M-2 complete setup for my EX1 and returned it because it just wasn’t a viable setup for the Sony EX cameras at that time.

For the Nano I setup for 720p, 100Mbps i-frame. The Nano fit great on the back cold shoe of the EX3 and it didn’t effect the steadycam operator. I can’t say enough about the Nano and the high quality images it records.

Here is a still that I corrected that I sent to the color team.

Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

What is nice is the dimmer control and it looks like a solid unit unlike the micro lite.

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Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

https://www.flolight.com/microbeam-128.html

I have 3-LED 500’s from these guys and they are great. I’m going to order the larger unit.
https://www.flolight.com/led-lighting/microbeam-256.html

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Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJDqzKePnc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3Fref%3Dlogo&feature=player_embedded

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Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

I believe most post personnel would like a progressive image over an interlaced image to composite. If you are referring to a letterbox black banding top and bottom I would use the 4:3 aspect ratio markers to frame with so when you are exporting as SD you will get a full 4:3 image . What is your delivery?

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Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

I would disagree with the SD as you have a great HD camera, I would choose 1080 30p not 60i.

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Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

Great post Craig