Photo-a-day

[pureturkeyholid]

Great Pictures its really looking good.. keep it up

[Ruggerbugger]

Hi! Introduce yourself? Post a shot?

[tfboy]

Took the opportunity to try out some indoor photography with our mini cinema at work.

I brought my strobes in, set them up in front of the screen facing back towards the seats to give the impression of the screen lighting up.

Quite happy with the results - considering it was my first attempt







you can see three projectors at the back - the one on the left doesn't have a lens, the other two have normal 2D lenses for 4k (4096x2048) resolution playback. We also have 3D lenses which use a split prism arrangement with circular polarisation. It's a cracking system and the quality is very good, and better in my opinion that the other systems that triple flash. Played around with producing some 3D DCPs and they looked amazing. Hoping to get a chance to have more of a play as a "thank you" for the photos

[Bobster]

shot some different stuff on Monday, so will have something different next week - Blackpool Ballroom and Latin finals this weekend too!

[yamangman]

shot some different stuff on Monday, so will have something different next week - Blackpool Ballroom and Latin finals this weekend too!

Cool

[Bobster]

shot from Retro shoot on Monday

[kalniel]

Nom...

[j.o.s.h.1408]

brillaint

[g8ina]

wow, so much new stuff so quick !

Right -

Chris - nowt to be worried about with that third landscape shot, really nice

tfboy - you work for Sony ? Cool and the first is a cracker. I used to work in a cinema a lifetime ago (40 years !) and I'd love to visit the box of a modern one

Bob - for the first time, I'm not so keen on the jump shot, the background is a bit too busy for the jump IMO

I'm in the middle of another massive fibro flare, so I've not been out for weeks now, but I did try and do a semi-studio shoot of my new grandaughter. Little angel wouldn't smile for me though -



Just natural light from my bedroom window.

[kalniel]

Still cute!

Hard to get a sense of scale with this one, you can just about make out a launcher rack at the bottom which is maybe 1/2m high.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

What was your camera settings? long exposure? narrow apparture?

[kalniel]

What was your camera settings? long exposure? narrow apparture?

Exif is intact. Manual everything, used lowest ISO possible (100), aperture to control exposure (f/9 on this shot), and shutter to bulb so I could control length of trails (4.8s on this shot as it's a sequence of fireworks scanning from right to left, twice (blue ones then sparkly ones)).

And yes, I used a tripod

[KidChameleon]

One from the zoo last week.

This kea was doing a funny dance where it would spin it's head in one direction then hop along that way.

[tfboy]

Thanks David.
Yes, I work there, although hardly get involved in the dcinema side (which I'd really like to).
Projection rooms are no doubt very different now. No more the smell of slightly burning film, the constant clatter of 24fps, etc. It's all just touchscreens and A/C vents you hear, and the distant, low power sound of the soundtrack if you have a small rack-mounted audio monitor

The technicalities are rather interesting though - JPEG2000 compression (completely different to the jpegs in our cameras), XYZ colour space (no RGB, YUV or anything like that), humongous MXF-muxed files FTPd to projectors, etc.

Creating DCPs is tricky, especially to get something that works on all projectors. The newest standard (SMPTE, the old one is InterOp) is still not fully supported on all pro PJs, particularly when it gets to subtitle management, etc. Anyway, I digress... back on topic

[KidChameleon]

This is an old one but I've only just uploaded it.




I'm not sure if it the horizon is straight.

[Bobster]

Ballroom from Sunday