Zero Gravity Photography

Hello everybody,


I'm back to show you my recent project called Zero Gravity.

It's a zero gravity representation of common fruits and vegetables. The result is, for sure, not that usual!

Take a look at the images bellow:

More at: www.xyz360.com.br/zero_gravity

Welcome Back Blogger!

Hello,

I Thought my blog was down on Blogger, but today I noticed it's alive!  :)

There's too much content to talk about. Let's "start" it again with cool new ways to see the world! ;)

I'll be back with my Zero Gravity Photography Project!

C ya!

FIRST BRAZILIAN STEREOSCOPIC 3D MUSIC VIDEO CLIP

Hi there,

Today i´m gonna talk about the first stereoscopic 3D production in Brazil.

Before we continue, please visit the video at:
www.youtube.com/unscaras

First stereoscopic 3D music video clip - Brazil - Canon T2i - Adobe Premiere from Daniel Farjoun on Vimeo.

2D version - First brazilian stereoscopic 3D music video clip - Canon T2i - Adobe Premiere from Daniel Farjoun on Vimeo.

The name of the band is UNSCARAS and the music "La Vecchia Novità".

I´m the producer of this video, keyboardist (my #1 hobby) and audio recorder and mixer.

The capture process was made with 2 Canon T2i (550D) cameras in a 3D Rig mounted by myself.

I created a "compact" camera Dolly (just for the camera, not the tripod) with 1 and 2 meters long to record several scenes with the lateral movement (the singer helped me on the montage of the stuff).

I used Canon 50mm 1.8 II for the main lens and, when needed bigger fov, the kit´s 18-55mm lens.

The editing was made entirely in Adobe Premiere and color correction/grading with it´s own tools.

The video was almost entirey shot in 1080p 24p, except the scenes of the girl putting down the room (slow motion with 720p 60p).

I think that this is probably one of the earliests true 3D stereo video clips made with 2 DSLR (canon T2i) video cameras... and edited in Adobe premiere.

Feel free to visit also the band´s website at: http://www.unscaras.com.br/
It´s the first brazilian 360 degrees music band website.
All audio recording and mixing done in REAPER (cockos), also by myself.

Please, comment here! It´s important to get improved with your comments, or to know if i´m in the right way!

Best regards,

Daniel Farjoun
http://www.xyz360.com.br/

DIY - Make your own 3D Anaglyph Glasses

Hi everybody,

As my last post was about 3D photography, here is a DIY how to mount your own 3D glasses.

What you need:

• computer and printer
• Cardpaper
• Scissor
• Glue
• Red and Cyan translucent gels
  

How to:

1. Print the above image
2. Cut the 3 pieces and glue them onto the cardpaper, as shown in the image.
3. Cut the external lines and the lens holes.
4. Cut the Red and Cyan gels in a way that their sizes are bigger than the lenses holes. (you'll need this extra size to glue it there). 
5. Glue the red "lens" to be your left eye and the Cyan gel to be your right eye.
6. Now your 3d glasses are ready to use. Have fun and see some 3D pictures here in this blog and at www.xyz360.com.br (still only in Portuguese but you'll know how to get there from the icons).

That's all folks!

Hope you like and see you next time!

Daniel Farjoun

www.xyz360.com.br

dfarjoun.blogspot.com

3D PHOTOGRAPHY

Hi Guys,

This is a post that I borrowed from my portuguese blog (www.festa360.com.br).

There, I presented the first brazilian fashion catalog totally made in 3D.

I had the pleasure to work with the top model Daiane Conteratto, Breno Votto and other model that i`ll credit later (sorry Daniel, i only remember your first name).

This was specially exciting cause i had to mount all the rig for 3D Shooting.

Twin camera's rig and remote controlling for both cameras.

I was hired to setup all the 3D rig scene to scene.
The cameras and flashes units were from another photographer.

The fact is that we had some other problems with flash synchronization for both shooting.
We were going to waste some pretty important time and I started to test another technique with my own camera (i didn't had to bring my camera, but thank god I did that).
So, the owner of the brand asked me to shoot all 3D scenes, while the other photographer would make all 2D photos.

I used only one camera and no external Flashes. I only had one Canon 580EXII and my spare camera Canon T1i.

This made the post production a harder step cause between the shots the models made some minnor movements that ruins the 3D effect. When there was a pretty good look and this problem occurred i decided to edit the pictures in order to have the hands, fingers, face and so on... in the right position.

The results can be seen  at www.xyz360.com.br/auslander

After this catalog, I started to produce the 30" 3D film that will be released this friday (April 23) - the same day as Alice in the wonderland 3D at "cinema leblon" in Rio de Janeiro.
This add will be there for one week.

It was hard to get the info about how to generate the DCP, but after some days calling people and searching the web, I got the answers to generate a full working DCP.

If you guys plan to make a short or even a long film, be prepared to have A LOT of disc space (usualy, more than 1 or 2TB.

This 30" add unpacked was almost 9gb. The final DCP has around 600mb (compressed with jpeg 2000).

Soon, i'll update this post with the video link.

If you like it or not, please comment (and be polite hehe).
It's very important to have your feedback in order to be always improving myself.

Thanks in advance! :)

Daniel Farjoun
www.xyz360.com.br

T2i DLSR video - The Good & The bad

Hi Guys,

I won't post a new Canon T2i review cause many sites and blogs already did it (see dpreview review at http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10020806canoneos550d.asp).

The point we are going to focus today is the pros and cons of making videos with a DSLR camera, like the  Canon T2i, 7D and 5D mkII.

Why isn't it good for fast movements? Why is it cool for low light situations? These are some of the questions we are going to see today.

1) DLSRs uses CMOS sensor instead of CCD. This is well known. But do you know what is behind this technology?
I invite you to make a test with your DSLR in the movie mode.
Start recording a scene, any scene, and make fast pans from left to right and right to left.
Watch the result and see exactly what's the spot point.
The vertical lines looks skewed. This happens because the CMOS sensor reads the scene from top down, like a scanner.
The bottom part of the image is processed after the top part, making any fast panning a headache and causing the skewed images. CCD images are totally generated at once, avoiding this unwanted effect.

So, avoid filming fast sports with fast camera movements.
The same occurs if the camera is still, and, lets say, a train passes over the scene from left to right. You bet the lines will have the same skewed effect.
So, keep this in mind when shooting with DSLRs. Avoid these fast actions and make you creativity flow in another direction.

2) In the other hand, DLSRs CMOS sensor are much better due to the results shown in low light situations.
Another positive point is that sharp and clear lenses for DLSR are much cheaper than video Lens.
The results in ISO 1600 with a F2.8 lens are quite perfect for almost all situations. You keep low noise and a well balanced image in most cases. Kit lenses are quite good for the initial steps, but you'll want better lens in a short. They (the kit lens) are normally too dark and, a little bit of crispness arrives only when closing diaphragm to F9 or F11.


3) Have you ever heard about moire? I'm quite sure you didn't notice it while shooting photographs.
BUT, did you pay attention to the videos when shooting with DLSRs?
Moire is a serious issue that is almost impossible to fix in post.
Try to film some small lines, preferably those with hight contrast with the background.
You'll see colour changing and a clear moire effect that will ruin your scene in a big screen.
Compose your scene avoiding this small lines. They can be in a fiber pattern, door or even in you glasses.


4) The 12 minutes limit on the Canon T2i can be really disappointing in some situations.
When you're in the middle of an important speech or moment, can be quite frustrating having to stop and restart recording. Considering this limitation, only buy your DSLR for film making if you plan to shoot small takes (less than 12 minutes each). You can shoot video clips, small interviews, a short or even a longer film, but keep in mind that each scene will have to be 12 minutes long max.

5) In my first day testing the T2i, after a while i noticed the overheat warning in both of my cameras.
Unfortunately I did not measured how long I could film without this warning. The only thing I can say is that it was an almost 2 hour session. The next time i'll make real tests to know the limits of the camera in the movie mode. This, for sure, will be shown here in this blog.

Hope you like this first post.
Please comment. Your words are really important.

Best Regards and see you soon,

Daniel Farjoun

This is my brand new Blog

Hi Folks,

This is my first blog in english dedicated to HDSLR film making and photography.

Hope you like the new topics to come.

Best Regards,

Daniel Farjoun