Big chunks of it weren't that interesting to me. There is a section on lighting that mostly seems to focus on available light and whole back of the book a list of various cameras and accessories for them, but the middle part of the book, the meat as it were, is focused on using DSLRS to get much higher quality results than I've been able to get out of mine and has some good info on how to set exposure and shutter speed for a film look with various opinions from professional shooters. Setting the picture modes to get a superflat image was new to me also... So pretty interesting stuff, although it may all be available in various blogs if you spend enough time online. Quite nice to have it all in one place though.
So might be worth checking out if you are about to start playing with a DSLR or if you are like me and still wondering why your stuff just doesn't look that good? :-0
Cheers
Dave
Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 100 Location: Australia
Thanks for the review, I've been seeing a few of these books going around and was wondering how good they actually are.
Does it spend much time talking about (suggested) workflow? That's still an area which I have the least understanding (notwithstanding everything else).
Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:35 pm
CMZPICTURES
Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 174
Chapter 4 is about setting dslr picture styles, is about setting the camera up for post processing.
Chapter 6 is all about post production work flow and editing. Its mostly about transcoding and color grading. If you googled neoscene or similar you could get the same info for transcoding and magic bullet for grading you'd mostly have the same info.....
So those chapters go hand in hand.
Hope this helps.
Dave
Fwiw my workflow is to use neoscene to transcode the 5d footage and then I do all my editing and color grading in vegas pro 9. Seems to work for me, but I'm just a hobbyist
The idea of shooting flat is you expose to give yourself as much flexibility as possible in grading which is kinda similar to shooting raw for stills.... its neutral....
Dave
Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 100 Location: Australia
Thanks for the info, I've got Stu's book which was instrumental for putting me on the right track but there are still parts I don't understand so I've been absorbing as much as I can from other areas (I ordered the book you reviewed, waiting for it to arrive). I've just gone to have a quick look at the neoscene website, will have a more detailed look at it in a second.
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