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EOS Bodies - For Video / How do YOU set your white balance for video with the 5D3?

« on: January 15, 2013, 01:55:49 PM »

Hi Folks,

What methods do ya'll use to set the correct white balance for shooting video with your Canon 5D3?

External light meter? You can instictively know what Kelvin temp a room is? AutoWB?

Thanks in advance,

cayenne

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Video & Movie / Re: Film shot on a 5D Mark III and Glidecam in Italy

« on: January 15, 2013, 12:18:30 PM »

Very nice.
Which glidecam model did you use?

What QR plate system do you use?

Thanks!

Cayenne

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Video & Movie / Chicken-Sausage Gumbo Video: 5D3, still working to learn lighting/color correct

« on: January 15, 2013, 10:46:25 AM »

Hi all,

I've posted my latest edition of my cooking show on youtube: CWI- Cooking While Intoxicated: Chicken and Andouille Sausage Gumbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hufnMolvF9s

I think I'm getting better at my editing...and this was my first attempt really using extra lighting (other than what is just in the room).  I have a couple of stands I'm using, with clamp lights...and some diffusers.

I know I have a LOT to work on with that, and it wasn't until I reshot ONE last scene, that I discovered that I had not had the proper white balance set.
I bought one of those ExpoDisc things to set custom white balance....but I didn't know that you had to set it AND set the white balance setting to use custom too...(D'oh).

So, I had a heck of a time cleaning up the color on the video, but I did my best. Also, it seems Davinci Resolve isn't working nice with FCPX with xml round tripping since they were upgraded, so I had to try to learn to do what I could with FCPX's native color and masking tools.

Anyway, I'm getting better I think, as I go along. I love doing this, so I'm learning a bit more on every time, by watching TV/Movies and analyzing how they do things...and with my editing, doing audio...remembering to record room tone in case I have to dub something...etc.

So, please give me your thoughts and suggestions...I'm still quite the noob, but I'm trying to learn.

cayenne

ps. If you like good gumbo, I'd suggest this recipe...I brought the leftovers to work the next day, and it disappeared in about 5 min after the work got out. And most of my co-workers are born and bred cajuns or from New Orleans proper.

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Software & Accessories / Recommendations for light meter?

« on: January 14, 2013, 06:33:43 PM »

Hi all,

I'm thinking it might be nice to have a handheld light meter...especially for my video shooting with the 5D3.

What are some good choices, and of course, reasonable price is nice.

Do these things also tell you the color temperature when taking a reading?

Thanks in advance,

cayenne

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Lighting / Re: Off camera flash

« on: January 14, 2013, 03:35:01 PM »

<snip>
I myself is just learning and actually just recently printed some of my work (low key photos)at Walgreens. The clerk asked me to sign some forms because my photos looked "professional". It made me chuckle and feeling pretty proud right now !   

Ok, you got me on this one...

Why in the world would Walgreens care if your pics were 'professional' or not, and have you sign forms...?

Not doubting that your images looked great, but just baffled why Walgreens would have you sign something?

C

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EOS Bodies - For Video / Re: Inside the Canon EOS-1D C

« on: January 10, 2013, 05:34:44 PM »

If Apple Inc cannot bring the jailbreakers to justice what hope of Canon Inc? They have better luck stiffing the grey market imports.

4K video should not cost that much!

I believe that there was an exception added to the DMCA that fully allows you to jailbreak your phone...I think it is semi-annually that the DMCA comes up for review and exceptions can be added or removed.

As for the camera..I think it comes down to if you wanted to put any firmware on the camera you wanted to...you can freely. I imagine you could sell it, or give it away free legally.

You'd just better be VERY sure, that you document and actually do a clean room reverse engineering of the hardware.

Now..if there is any DRM in the hardware you have to 'break' to get functionality...that might be an area that is gonna need a DMCA exception.

IANAL, but from what I've read and seen on subjects like this in the past...this would seem to follow along.

So, if this hardware has the functionality, and you can figure how to use it, without using any Canon software (per their license), you would be free to do so,and free to release it..as that I'm guessing that there isn't any hardware locking or encryption in the hardware that would have to be bypassed or cracked to use....

That my $0.02,

cayenne

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sigma Launches the Sigma USB DOCK

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:09:06 PM »

^ Do you really expect corporations to code their software to work with Linux, representing a whopping under 2% of computer users?

Anyways, if sigma would have had this accessory years ago it would have saved their brand an awful lot of hurt over bad AF!

Actually, considering that OSX and Linux are very similar under the hood (both are flavors of unix)...it would seem reasonable to have them develop for Linux too.

And with the fiasco that Win8 seems to be...well, there might be more people trying out Linux, not to mention, there are a lot of pro houses out there using Linux servers.

And with Mac seemingly unwilling to put out an updated mac pro....building a high end linux box is somewhat appealing.

But again, since osx and linux are so similar, I could see them porting it pretty readily.

For the time being...just run Win or OSX as a VM on your Linux box...and you have all your bases covered.

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Technical Support / Re: Bracketing with 5d mark iii

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:04:03 PM »

You do not need to set the HDR on to shoot the different brackets. Just have the camera in AV mode, set your amount of brackets that you want, then set your brackets in the exposure brackets to have their values set, then if you have your camera set on two second timer, it will take all the shots, otherwise you need to manually push the shutter button for each of the different shots

Hmm...oh wow. I thought it would take all the exposures automatically if you held the button down?

Seems easier now, to set in HDR mode...and just throw out the resulting jpg and use the RAW bracketed exposures from that to make your HDRs on your own?

Seems strange on the setting your describing, that you'd have to manually click to take each picture exposure setting....?

cayenne

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Software & Accessories / Anybody familiar with Cinepaint for editing photos (edits, HDR, etc) ?

« on: January 08, 2013, 03:31:49 PM »

I just found this tool Cinepaint, looks to run on X on mac, and natively on Linux, and appears that a windows version is coming.

Description here:
http://www.cinepaint.org/more/about.html

Sounds like an interesting editing tool...seems often used in movie houses to do cleaning of frame by frame stuff...and high bit functionality. 

From the description:

"CinePaint is used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. CinePaint opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG. It has a flipbook for movie playback of image sequences in RAM. It supports 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels, HDR and CMS.

CinePaint is used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures. It's been used on many feature films, including The Last Samurai where it was used to add flying arrows.

For still photography, CinePaint can import bracketed HDR exposures. It has gallery-quality 16-bit per channel color printing with GutenPrint. CinePaint's high dynamic range is crucial with B&W still photography, where images only have a single channel."

I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with this or had tried it out with HDR or other type of image manipulations?

I have been playing with a linux install on Parallels on my mac, thought I might give it a whirl, or install it on one of my native linux boxes, but thought I'd see if anyone knew of this, had used it and could give some feedback on their thoughts on it...

Links to some screenshots:
http://www.cinepaint.org/more/pix/index.html

Cayenne

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Canon General / Re: Total File Size - All Your Images and Keep or Delete

« on: January 07, 2013, 02:30:03 PM »

Of course now I notice the card reader comment.  I have always done mine via usb cable/camera to the computer.  I think taking the card out, putting it in a card reader then back out and back to the camera will do more harm than deleting images on the card ever will.  I've always been paranoid about that weakening a card that I just always have a big enough card each time and never take it out of the camera and use the usb route(till the usb port failed on my T2i anyway lol).

Interesting, I'd also been coached by some more experienced photogs I've been talking with and picking their brains, that they said they never hook their cameras directly with USB to the computers to transfer pics...that they only did it when necessary for firmware upgrades.

Not sure how much of that was superstition....but, I figured a card reader is easy to use, often faster, I have a multiple card intake on mine, so I can plug in a CF and SD card at the same time and start copying off from both....and get back to shooting while those are copying off.

The card reader seems to transfer a bit faster than directly from the camera so far for me....anyone else experience that?

Cayenne

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Technical Support / Re: Bracketing with 5d mark iii

« on: January 07, 2013, 02:01:13 PM »

Wow, I'm impressed!  Your first digital camera so you went from 0 to two 5DM3...

The 5D3 was my first DSLR....and I really had nothing else prior to it. I had a nikon cool pics a long time back but I think it got crunched in my car somewhere.

Some people like to jump into something with both feet when they find something new to do!!


cayenne

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Canon General / Re: Total File Size - All Your Images and Keep or Delete

« on: January 02, 2013, 12:30:45 PM »

Memory is cheap. You said it yourself. To me, it's not worth deleting a single frame. If I take a shot that's not worth keeping, it gets deleted in camera before I transfer the files to computer.

Just curious....I'd been told that for longer life of your memory cards, that it was best to NOT do maniuplations, deletions from the camera to individiual files on the cards while in camera.

That is was best to unload all your images from a session(s) with your card reader to your comuter, and once done, you reformat the cards in the CAMERA to totally erase them to be ready for next shoots.

Thoughts on this? Myth or Fact?

TIA,

cayenne

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Suggestions for a first monopod for a 5D3...?

« on: January 02, 2013, 12:24:32 PM »

Just skip to the best and get a Gitzo. I've owned several Bogen/Manfrotto monopods and tripods over the years. The Manfrotto's are good but tend to fall apart after a few years. The Gitzo keeps on going.

I love the height of the 3551, so +1 on this.  the RRS will be top drawer as well if its length is sufficient.  the only reason I didn't go "all RRS" (monopod and head) is because of the 67.25"  height.

I'm still in a quandry about this....so, trying to figure out what quick release system I'm going to go with, and base my monopod, and figure what to do about my existing tripod (manfrotto)...and heads and systems to hook on my rhino slider when it arrives...

So, this thread I'm still researching through....likely gonna be a couple months after I pay off xmas stuff (for me and others), and I'll revisit this one.

If I somehow get lucky enough to get selected by the folks for the amateur section of the New Orleans Jazz Fest photographer volunteers they allow in...I'll definitely be wanting a monopod to take in for that.

C

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Pricewatch Deals / Re: I thought I heard the Canon Instant Rebates for Lenses/Flash was extended again?

« on: December 30, 2012, 08:36:32 PM »

B&H has the canon 135mm on sale through 1/5 so it looks like it extends a little into january at least

Ok, thanks.

I thought I'd heard somewhere that it went at least through Jan 5th....but can't find where I'd read that....


C

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Animal Kingdom / Re: MY dog

« on: December 30, 2012, 05:19:34 PM »

My little girl is starting to get a bit older...14yrs now, but she still can make for a good model.....

The first is what I call her "Mona Lisa" smile shot....

Second one was the one of the first shots I ever did after getting my first DSLR, the 5D3.

K

Question, do any of ya'll get these wonderful pet shots blown up for the wall for home art?

I got the sepia one blow up, on canvas for my Mom, and acrylic...both were about 24x36" I believe....

Also curious, think there is a market for making good $$$ on pet photos for wall art, like the people I see making big money for children and even wedding snaps. Seems the big money isn't for those as being CDs of images, but wall art, and albums....

Thinking maybe and somewhat untapped market might be high end pet shots?

C