New clip to share (beautiful bride, venue, + an accidentally amazing Glidetrack shot)
 

hi all,

here's a new clip to share:

Kayleigh and Steve - Wedding Highlights on Vimeo

and the glidetrack shot i'm referring to is between 1:50 - 1:57. I turned the camera as it went up, and then down, the Glidetrack...and it worked out accidentally well! might have to do that again!

cheers

hahaha..

don't you love a good surprise!?

nice discovery!

how did you miced the groom when he's doing the speech? is that white thing a mic for the venue mixer??

Santo

hey Susanto,

well actually i don't ever mic people up during the speeches. ok, i don't get the clearest possible audio and i admit that, but i prefer to use a trusty Rode Videomic (shotgun mic) on the XH-A1.

cheers

o wow.. that sound comes from just the video mic?? thats awesome!! gotta get me one of that. i use rode ntg2.. not very good...

Santo

i've used the videomic as my primary recorder for every wedding for the last 3 years and it's never once let me down...def. recommended!!

...and i thought the NTG2 was meant to be much better?!

nooo.... its very bad... i trust the inbuilt mic better than ntg2... a1 has quiet good inbuilt mic

^_^

Hey Richard,

First of all, you've got some really strong work on your site. Really impressive stuff. Some of the cleanest 5D I've seen around. I'm not a huge fan of the fish-eye myself, you seem pretty steady barecam, is there a reason you favor the ultrawide look? I noticed your 5D + PPro workflow and it seems to be doing really well for you. Congrats & keep up the great work.

-K

Hi Kevin,

thanks for the comment. I hate to break the bad news but there is no 5d stuff in there (although I do have one now).
And as for the fisheye, the only reason I use it is because I've not yet decided on a suitable wide-angle lens to add to my equipment list :)

cheers

Hey Richard,

I enjoyed that. Great shooting, colour grading, etc.

One thing that bugged me was the camera shake at the end of the opening shot. Couldn't you slomo the shot down to remove that?

Cheers...

Ahhh, you fooled me w/ your workflow post... ;) Well you've got solid footage so whatever your setup, keep up the good work.

Hey, great edit Richard. That glide shot did work out nicely!

beautiful... what are you using for the steadicam rig?

Hey vito,
damn, u weren't suppposed to pick up on that camera shake :) it really bothers me too and I wish I had sorted it out more now!

Cole, I'd like to say I have an impressive pilot but nope, it's a cheap eBay glidecam 2000 copy!!

Cheers everyone!

Hey Richard,

Hehe. I'll try be less observant next time!

Richard..

Very cool way of shooting the receiving line... I might steal this idea from you. I hope you dont mind.

Also, were you using MB looks for color grading?

Steve

Whatever works (physics are physics), nicely done!

Well shot and well edited. Personaly I'm not a big fan of the somewhat extreme colour grading, but that is a matter of taste.

@Susanto: if you'r built-in mic is better than the NTG-2, there must be something wrong with the NTG-2. I also have the XH-A1 with that mic, works well. To bad the A1 mic amplifiers add a bit of noise.

That was incredible!

Absolutely loved it, great work :)

Loved it, left a message on your Vimeo page under First Dance Pictures. Great work, Richard!

Very nice, the only thing I didn't really like was for example at 1:01 the light rays? I assume those were put in and might look better when not on the web, but they seem a bit too much ray'ee

thanks Thomas... upon reflection, i definitely over-graded that clip - amazing how much we all change our own editing styles in just a few months! that was when i was going through my epic-grading stage :)