NYC Wedding Trailer

Had the opportunity to shoot in NYC recently. I don't often shoot up there as I'm located near Philly and mostly do gigs around that area. The wedding took place at the Plaza Hotel located directly across from the ultra-cool underground Manhattan Apple store. Of course I had to include a shot of it in the estabs. :)

http://www.gmelliottvideography.com/satnicktrailer.mov

PS This Chris Brown song has been very popular with brides since that youtube video of the dancing precessional....that, or it's just pure coincidence. Needless to say the music was the bride's choice.

[Kevin Lewis]

Glen, do you ever use plugins such as "neat video" to remove the grain? I've heard this plugin works wonders for removing grain.

[Dimitris Mantalias]

I agree. Neat Video does a miraculous job at removing grain. It's a little bit slow but what could we expect from such powerful software?

[Glen Elliott]

Originally Posted by Monday Isa

"PS One of the keys to good low light performance is to NOT use any noise-reduction filters in camera."

hmmmm could you explain that in more detail Glen?

The built in noise-reduction filters only hurt the image quality. I never use them. I simply open my iris, push the gain to +12, and slow the shutter to 1/24th.

There WILL be visible grain with this method- however I find most of it is smoothed out via interpolation from the downconversion to SD DVD.

[Glen Elliott]

Originally Posted by Kevin Lewis

Glen, do you ever use plugins such as "neat video" to remove the grain? I've heard this plugin works wonders for removing grain.

I'll have to look into it- I've never used any sort of noise reduction filters on video before. However if it's anything like it is in photoshop it sounds like it make take some time to render!