Making a movie trailer with the Leica Digilux 2

timelockin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:09:12 +0000

The Philharmonie Cologne presented our documentary about Hermann Prey in cinema.
To document this honor i put the Leica Digilux 2 left side to the screen on tripod and used my OQO 01 as the remote pc for time laps.
8 sec. exposure time at an interval of 15 sec. for 70 minutes.
And i was realy surprised that the audience had no motion bluring through the long time.

Watching the audience i`ve got the idea to make a trailer out of this stuff.
Sorry for the small videos and the not so nice position in this blog but i don`t know how to change this.

Between the documentary work i used the Digilux often in the three picture mode.
Cause in previews this three pictures looks like a little movie i get an other idea.
I made a making of trailer only with photos.
The result is nothing for people with epilepsy, but it is a nice document of three years emotional work.

If you will watch the videos in higher resolution check this link http://vimeo.com/timelock/videos
More information about the documentary via www.hermannprey.com

Hermann Prey documentary with Digilux2 and OQO

timelockin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:01:19 +0000

Update: I had used the Digilux 2 and the Leica remote software for interview sessions between the documentary project about Hermann Prey. On the DVD Prey – Stille meine Liebe you can see the video versions of interviews with Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann and many more. Talking about Hermann Prey, passion, music and the price for beeing a star. But additional to the video cameras i had taken the Leica in time lap mode, every 10 seconds a picture. Cause most of the interviews had been indoor i used a relative long exposure time. So it is possible to watch in the results how deeply committed the people in front of our cameras had been. www.stille-meine-liebe.de www.hermannprey.info

Original post:

Since nearly three years i have an OQO 01 as my road unit. Using the umts modem feature of my mobile phone via bluetooth i can send and receive important stuff when i`m on location. And i use the OQO as a remote control for timelaps with my Digilux 2. The photos are directly captured on the OQO. Cause of having only a 20 gig hdd , non powered firewireport and usb 1.0 this work is a little limited. So i had the idea of a external battery powered firewire hdd. It looks like this is very special cause there are not so many offers. But after month of research i found the Nexto CF. It is an realy fast 160 gig Imagetank for CF cards (and with an adapter for many more different cards). It have an build in and an additional extern battery, firewire and usb 2.0 port. But nobody could told me if the Nexto is powering with its battery if i connect it with the non powered firewire port of my OQO 01. Cause of needing a fast imagetank for a photoshooting i bought the Nexto. Now i`m very happy that it works with my OQO via firewire too. And watching photos it looks like the Nexto on my OQO is working faster then the build in OQO hdd. So if you need a self powering external hdd with usb and firewire i realy can recommend the Nexto.
Here you can find a very good review and test of the Nexto written by Hans-Jürgen Reggel http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/special-nextocf.html

And here are some photos of my setup and the Nexto CF

Jim Rakete Exhibition 1/8 sec.- Vertraute Fremde

timelockin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:25:12 +0000

institute of design duesseldorf exibition 2009

timelockin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:48:16 +0000

Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau

timelockin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:25:22 +0000

opening Albert Watson exhibition NRW Forum

timelockin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:58:07 +0000

Kunsthalle Flingern

timelockin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:22:38 +0000

Links:

Zeitungsartikel zur Kunsthalle Flingern (Quelle:NRZ/Michael-Georg Mueller)_

Homepage Carol Pilars de Pilar

Painting with digital cameras

timelockin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:40:24 +0000

foggy sunday at the river with the F31FD

beach as a window reflection taken with the F31FD

made out of 3 extremely underexposed shots taken with the F31FD

made out of 4 extremely underexposed shots taken with the Digilux 2

Lea Lenhart opens her studio at Kunstpunkte 2008.

timelockin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:30:12 +0000

Open studio from Lea Lenhart. She is a wonderful artist based in Duesseldorf/Germany. And she is “painting” incredible 3D objects out of million little glass beads. You must see this with your own eyes.

http://www.lealenhart.de/

B/W grain test F31FD 3200 ISO

timelockin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:56:07 +0000

Primal I use the F31FD as my available light camera. And I know that colors are a problem at 3200 ISO. So i think about black and white photos. But there are two ways of creating. One with direct b/w in the camera settings and one with postproduction. So i had to try out the better solution. Therefore I made three shots in the same difficult light condition. One in camera colormode setting b/w, one in normal and one in chrome.

Kamera: Fujifilm FinePix F31fd
Belichtung: 0,02 sec (1/50)
Blende: f/8
Brennweite: 8 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit: 3200
Belichtungskorrektur: 0/100 EV
Blitz: Flash did not fire

Setting_colormode_b/w

Setting_colormode_normal

Setting_colormode_chrome

Then I made some crops of this photos and change setting normal and chrome into b/w via Photoshop.

Crop Setting_colormode_b/w

Crop Setting_colormode_normal

Crop Setting_colormode_normal to b/w via Photoshop

Crop Setting_colormode_chrome

Crop Setting_colormode_chrome to b/w via Photoshop

It looks like at 3200 ISO camera color setting normal and a b/w postproduction via Photoshop is the best way.