Sorry Mark, I forgot to thank you on blog for your photos!

actually did you see it all? I had the wrong file embedded and it was only half the length it should be!

Only half Phil but was it great!

Hm, the Quicktime on your blog for some reason is real choppy playback for me and the link to Vimeo takes me to a "
Ooops! Sorry, this page could not be found!". Still the first 5 seconds looked great even choppy!

- Ray

PS Tracked it down on Vimeo but it says "Uploading".

That's odd Ray. It should play smooth. I have fixed the Vimeo link but it won't show up yet as it has to finish uploading and then convert it. The file is almost half a gig

Weird about the choppiness though! Persevere if you can. It's worth it!

No worries, I'll get it sooner or later. =)

Was trying to track down the dolly ya used but it looks like it ain't available here in the US. Looks like a nice light rig, the one I have is pretty heavy and not fun to lug around. Though I need ta save up and get a Letus and stop getting distracted by other toys!

- Ray

thats a shame. its a great dolly and track

Wow- great job Phil. "Confession" looks fantastic. It is really great to see you now moving into this direction with your pieces. Any advice on settings, lenses, accessory use with the EX1 and this type of work? The Letus holding up well? Everyone is waiting to see how this finishes.

really good job on "Confession", looks like you nailed it again. To add on to Hayes' questions, how did you find editing this piece on a macbook pro? I am about to start shooting similiar stuff and hoping to use magic bullet alot and trying to decide if i should break the bank and go for a quad core or have a look at a new macbook pro. Im just scared of having to sit waiting for hours during renders to see every little change i make.

The lenses I used are mentioned in my blog as well as the accessories. Ideally a follow focus and matte box would have been used.

Editing on the macbook pro was fine, ideally the mac pro would have been used but I was away from home. Magic Bullet took an age to render. It's fine but you need the time to do it.

If you have the money get a macpro. It's a good 6-8 times faster than the macbook pro and when it comes to rendering magic bullet.

Hi Phil,

just wanted to congratulate you with your blog. I love your images, color correction and music choices. Especially nice to see you choose Symphony for Sorrowful Songs by Gorecki, it truly is a marvelous cd, I never can stop listening to it. Every song is so heartbreaking. Although I think you overused the music in the movie of the trenches, photography of it looks splendid, yet again.

Keep up the good work!

Thought this to be of interest, right now only supporting Canon EOS type @
http://www.birger.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=ef232_home

This would allow manual method to control focus.

Phil: Ola says these EX1 settings came from your blog. If so, can you post a reference as I can not find.

Thanks,
Mike
Palm Desert

"Philip
Matrix select: cinema
Level: 0
Phase: -29
R-G: +31
R-B: 48
G-R: -2
G-B: -32
B-R: -38
B-G: +4
Color Correction ON
Target Phase: 274
Target Width: 0
Level: 91
Phase: -18
Knee SAT 50
Gamma Level: 0
Select STD1, Cine1, CINE3, or CINE4
Black: -8

http://web.mac.com/philip.bloom/Blooms_Blog/Blooms_Blog/Entries/2008/2/17_ex1_Picture_profile_settings_i_use.html

Philip CONFESSION was a master piece!!!!!! It did not in anyway feel like a rough cut to me. The images looked nice, great camera work, color correction blah blah blah.....

The crowning glory of the piece; was the story, and the acting! Those actors rocked!!!!! Good luck with the film mate!!!!

Cheers!!!!

Philip,
Nice work. I am truly inspired by your work
Confessions is a great story and shot so well,
You could start work shops and people would come from all around the world just to see how you do it.

All the Best
Simon

Phil,

Congrats on your last job - great as always:)

Can you tell us which Hoodman LCD shade you're using?

yep is the hoodman 400

yep is the hoodman 400

Thanks, Phil. Could you comment on this one, please?

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost.php?p=856241&postcount=41

yeah your backfocus is out on the Letus. The procedure is more complicated than moving the lens mount back and forth. You need to move the ground glass back and forth. Go to the letusdirect site and look at the procedure there

Great work, Philip. Gives us ambition to do the same. I might have a few nit picky comments, but it would just be envy talking!

check out my blog on Sunday evening, my first one from Las Vegas. There should be something really worth checking out...I promise!!

check out my blog on Sunday evening, my first one from Las Vegas. There should be something really worth checking out...I promise!!

D'you mean something like a picture of you in LA with maybe a pint of Guinness?

Mark - I think by Phil's standards it will be even better then that, and he's making a promise!! So watch for the Blog on his website...

Hi Philip,

Are you going to all over the place or will you be at the Sony booth at NAB?

I only get to go to the show Tuesday & Wednesday, but if there was some way possible to meet you I'd love to record a short segment for my Podcasts.


Sincerely,

Bob Diaz
http://web.mac.com/bobdiaz/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html

Hi Bob,

I will be mostly hanging around the MGM grand on Tuesday, but drop me a mail if you want to hook up here.

I got a chance to have a drink with some of the DVinfo giants tonight! Really great to meet them all. Chris Hurd, Nate Weaver, Greg Boston and Tim Dashwood. Wish I could have spent more time with them but had to go and see the Beatles Cirque Du Soleil show which was pretty bloody good!!

Thanks for dropping by Phil -- it was a real treat to finally meet you!

Phil,

Sorry I wasn't able to connect to the internet from the road and I wasn't able to work out anything with you. Oh well, maybe next time...

Best Wishes,

Bob Diaz

Sorry we missed each other Bob.

By the way have made my first short using the Letus Ultimate prototype and the EX1.

There is a better quality version being uploaded to exposureroom.com right now but in the mean time here it is:

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Deer_Vegas.html

a semi sequel to Piccadilly Furs

More info and photos on my blog.

to see it in 720p register at exposureroom or vimeo and download it from there. it is still compressed obviously but better

Philip- just uploaded additional pictures of you and 2 brief reviews of the Letus Ultimate and the making of your short "Deer Vegas".
@
http://web.mac.com/stevecahill/Steve_Cahills_Blog/Blog/Blog.html

Great to have met you in person! Hopefully soon I will be on your side of the pond.

my turn to buy you jellied eels

slow pan while the sky was going dark over Vegas ... how'd you do that?

very very slowly with my hand on the pan handle for twenty minutes.

kidding the edit is 720p the shot 1080 so all done in edit.

might be shooting in tokyo in two weeks dean

It would be great to meet and I think Kaku would be pleased as well. Both he and I are in Shibuya and the other guys in Tokyo I'm sure would be into a brew or two, or three ... let's have a beer!

if the job is confirmed this week will let you know, in the meantime...

My second short "Red, Red, Rocks" is now up

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Red_Red_Rocks.html

Shot on the Ultimate/ EX1 combo with Hien watching something being shot for the first time with his adaptor.

Filmed in Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas

Music is Ghosts 1 by Nine Inch Nails

Info and photos on blog as per usual

The flash version will follow soon.

Done a new short using the ex1 and ultimate in Tokyo. I used a very cheap motorized tripod head for the last timelapse shot(really a telescope head, details in blog)

You can see the short here

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Shibuya.html

thanks to Alex Kubalsky for all his help

Great looking stuff!

One question: are you using the Letus on every shot, changing the aperture for the desired DOF, or are you removing and replacing the Letus between shots?

Thanks!

Done a new short using the ex1 and ultimate in Tokyo. I used a very cheap motorized tripod head for the last timelapse shot(really a telescope head, details in blog)

You can see the short here

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Shibuya.html

thanks to Alex Kubalsky for all his help

Nice shots...
Phil, I repeatedly found your music is very well selected...
What music sources you can recommend ? Are you using own archives or are there any other archives on the Internet ... ?!

Shooting nice pictures is one thing - putting it all together with very well "balanced" sound is something else... you are doing exceptional well in that aspect, Phil.

EX1 arrived today... so I am starting the learning curve with the new camera from now on !

Excellent Phil ~ hope to catch up with you today. Been out shooting flowers in the mountains!

Great looking stuff!

One question: are you using the Letus on every shot, changing the aperture for the desired DOF, or are you removing and replacing the Letus between shots?

Thanks!
Letus always stays on Jon!

Nice shots...
Phil, I repeatedly found your music is very well selected...
What music sources you can recommend ? Are you using own archives or are there any other archives on the Internet ... ?!

Shooting nice pictures is one thing - putting it all together with very well "balanced" sound is something else... you are doing exceptional well in that aspect, Phil.

EX1 arrived today... so I am starting the learning curve with the new camera from now on !

Mostly my own music, sometimes I look for inspiration. Death Valley was hardest. The one in end was one i chose before going there, then I changed my mind but couldn't find anything that worked as well

annoyingly one of my ex1's in Tokyo has gone wrong. The LCD has died. The EVF still works but as we all know it's awful.

Gutted!!! Oh and my macbook hard drive seized up too. Must be something in the air.

Oh man! My condolences on the equipment failures. Any chance of finding a Sony service center there? You could ask around Akihabara...

Best of luck.

Hey Phil,

on the encodes online, i saw some flickering in the really high highlight sections of the Death Valley video once between 2:38-2:39, and again between 3:50 and 3:55. Is this anything that you've seen from the camera or some weird encoding issue?

Sorry if this has been asked already, and thanks for the any feedback you can give.

Dave

Oh man! My condolences on the equipment failures. Any chance of finding a Sony service center there? You could ask around Akihabara...

Best of luck.

getting it fixed back in UK

Hey Phil,

on the encodes online, i saw some flickering in the really high highlight sections of the Death Valley video once between 2:38-2:39, and again between 3:50 and 3:55. Is this anything that you've seen from the camera or some weird encoding issue?

Sorry if this has been asked already, and thanks for the any feedback you can give.

Dave

looks like that is some weird encoding issue, not there on my original.

My last short in Tokyo is up http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Alone_in_Tokyo.html

half shot on Ultimate, half on Extreme to see how well they compared. Some shots were without any adaptor...

info on my blog with pics about how it was shot...

http://web.mac.com/philip.bloom/Blooms_Blog/Blooms_Blog/Entries/2008/5/4_Alone_in_Tokyo.html

A great piece Phil.

In case I didn't let you know in Tokyo Phil. I think you are an absolute craftsman. Such great work. Respect.

Kubalsky