We decided to take our Spring Break at home this year. What fun!! It was a long, fun, and full week… from the Zoo with Liz and Elise, easter egg hunting, fishing, and of course one of the big highlights… MICHELLE came to visit. As always we picked up with Jen’s old roommate right where we left off. Sushi, lounging around the place via golf cart, and then lunch at the Arrington Vineyard. Good times all around!!

There are times we look, but do not see… passing up beauty in a rush to destinations… so, I took the challenge by fellow vimeo member Andrew Garcia and decidied to litererally “stop and smell the roses”. It turns out that mid-winter is not the best time for roses… so, like Andrew, I opted for mile markers instead. I traveled seven miles from my door, stopping at each mile marker to film what I found there. It was a great exercise.

Shooting stats…
– Panasonic Lumix GH1
– Shot in Full Manual mode
– 720 60p HD mode
– Shutter at 125
– ISO 100
– Lenses – Lumix 20mm F1.4 and Canon FD 135mm F2.8
– Filter – Singh Ray Vari-N-Duo Filter… with this filter I was able to dial in my exposure and shoot with a wide open aperture in full sunlight for great shallow depth of field
– Cam support – Manfrotto 536 Tripod w/Manfrotto 501HDV Video Head
– Hoya 77mm rubber collapsable Hood
– Neocine transcode from MTS to MOV (leaving it at 60p)
– Cinema Tools to conform 60p to 23.98
– Cut in FCP on a 23.98 fps sequence
– Music was “Ever After” purchased from royaltyfreemusic.com

I always find myself filming “events” so I figured I would turn my focus on the mundane for a change… just an average Saturday afternoon, but I love the expression and relational moments the lens captured… who knew there was so much emotion in rock collecting 🙂

For the techs…
– Panasonic Lumix GH1
– Shot in Full Manual mode
– 720 60p HD mode
– Shutter at 125
– ISO 100
– Lens – Lumix 20mm 1.4 with Singh Ray Vari-N-Duo Filter… with this filter I was able to dial in my exposure and shoot with a wide open aperture in full sunlight for nice shallow depth of field
– Last shot was the 14-140mm Lumix Kit lens
– Cam Support – Manfrotto 560B Fluid Video Monopod with 234RC Head
– Hoya 77mm rubber collapsable Hood… this caused some of the vignetting, I should have caught that and pulled back the hood a bit more, but kinda like it in some of the shots
– Neocine transcode from MTS to MOV (leaving it at 60p)
– Cinema Tools to conform 60p to 23.98 (preserves beautiful slow motion by basically only changing the meta data to read 23.98)
– Cut in FCP on a 23.98 fps sequence (to get the slowmo clips to regular speed simply changed clip setting to 200%) I left most in slowmo
– Music was “Innocence” purchased from royaltyfreemusic.com