Video portraits: The idea was to shoot video that looks like “breathing” photographs and use transitions that look like closing and opening aperture blades on a large format camera. The east village is the perfect place for this kind of project, known for its diverse community, one will find the most interesting faces to photograph. Tripod, 5D2 with 100mm 2 and 75mm-150mm, one afternoon of shooting. Enjoy! Music: http://mathieu.lozinguez.free.fr/
Update: Finally had a chance to finish this little project, a few new clips from another walk on the high line, this time the iso was limited to 3200. the clip at 1:12 was shot at iso 1600. Most color was shot during twilight and total darkness, iso ranging from 1600 to 6400.the b/w was shot at iso 400 during daylight hours . After running noise reduction the 6400 shots at 1:30, 1:38. 2:20 through 3:30 look much improved, not ideal but usable. I will limit my highest iso setting to 3200 and only use 6400 for emergencies. The camera produces the best quality from iso 100 to iso 2000, and 2000 looks like iso 400 on many other cameras!
The 7D is definitely a bit noisier then the 5D2 but hey, its okay, the images obtained are unobtainable with most other cameras. Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 (my back up lens) lots of shots wide open, very sharp. Tokina 11-16mm and 12-24mm, Nikon 75-150mm.The clips are mostly ungraded, except for noise reduction, b/w was done in post, some clips slowed to 24p, some sped up. Music: Hiding on the Hill, by Dikayl Rimmasch.
This test is a bit more conclusive. 5D mark II mounted on base plate and the 7D mounted on top of the 5D mark II. Recorded at a shutter speed of 1/80, aperture 8 at 1080/30p, settings for both cameras. You will notice the 5D pulling out slightly more information in the sky. (i e 5D has better dynamic range) on the other hand, the 7D pulls ahead in the panning department (not by much), showing the least amount of rolling shutter of all cameras I have tested. Good enough for most situations. The video can be downloaded from here. If you find this information helpful, please consider helping me maintaining this blog by purchasing your gear through my product links to B&H. It will cost you nothing and allows me to keep adding! Thank you.
Was in mood for pizza this afternoon and visited my favorite pizzerias in the Lower East Side.
Canon 7D, shot hand held, 17-55mm and 11-16mm, both at 2.8, 720/60p, Iso range 100 to 1600. Manual white balance, Sennheiser MKE 400 (with dead mouse wind shield attached) and skylight filters to keep the grease off the lenses.
check’em out when in NYC,
Pete’s-a-place,
502E 14th Street, 212 573 0671
Artichoke on 14th Street between 1st and 2nd Ave. (can’t miss it)
The Pizza Shop, 110 Ave A,
Muzzarella Pizza, 221 Ave A (yup, that’s how its spelled)
and
Viva Herbal Pizzeria, 179 2nd Ave.
Quick and dirty test on rolling shutter. The pan speed was not controlled and varies from camera to camera. Aperture 8 – 11, Shutter speed 1/80. (except for D90, shutter was not looked and most likely higher) ISO 100. Frame rates: D90 at 24p, 5D2 at 30p GH1 at 24p, 7D at 30p. the first half of the pan is extremely fast, the second half is closer to “real life”, keep in mind this is an extreme test and by no means scientific . A lot of you asked me to do this test and I find it interesting but it has never bothered me during my shoots using this cameras.
I just picked up my Canon 7D from Adorama and could not wait to try it out. I wasn’t really sure where to start, 720/60p or 1080/24p, low light, raw, jpeg, to make things worse, the weather sucked today, gray and too cold for this time of the year. I headed towards East Houston street and spotted three guys playing on the corner of First Avenue. I have never seen so many people giving Dollar bills away and buying CD’s. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Stumblebum Brass Band. Time Lapse with the Canon 7D with the Tokina 11-16mm attached. Set to Manual mode, medium quality jpegs, 2sec intervals at 1/3 of a second. Converted to b/w in Photoshop and and some post to match the raunchiness of the sound. I wish there was more, but the Police showed up and ended the session, told them to pack it up, and so they did. I managed to buy the last Cd as they hurried away. If you like what you hear check them out at www.stumblebumbrassband.com
