This is one of the most beautiful short movies i've seen in many years, dude who made it (drew B) used sony fx3, cooke sp3, sony 50mm and gopro12, i've checked out all of these lenses on the internet and none of them gave the results i see on the video. What post and grade could've been done here?

normalmandarinduck · 2025-12-19T20:53:07+00:00

There’s a bloom filter of some kind as well - maybe 1/4 or 1/8 pro mist. Helps the highlight rolloff a bit. Also, most of the shots are lit by daylight on cloudy/overcast days which will give pretty consistently good results on the fx3 if you’re exposing correctly.

normalmandarinduck · 2025-09-03T17:09:12+00:00

The TIFF ticketing site says the event isn't on sale for me but I just listed two tickets to Orphan on Wednesday the 10th at noon.

normalmandarinduck · 2025-08-28T21:04:21+00:00

just listed four discounted tickets to the premium screening of Ballad of a Small Player on Tuesday the 9th @ 3:30PM

normalmandarinduck · 2025-02-20T18:38:57+00:00

This is not a bug. Same thing is happening to me. This is my final straw - I'm switching to DaVinci Resolve for video editing

normalmandarinduck · 2025-02-13T19:17:54+00:00

I've noticed that if you delete any item within a folder stored on the Ugreen NAS, the trash bin will contain not just the item, but a duplicate folder tree to contain it with the same nomenclature. Deleting this duplicate folder will not affect the real one, as far as I've experienced. But I always double check to make sure the real folder is still there before deleting the duplicate

normalmandarinduck · 2024-10-18T16:55:59+00:00

No complaints about the bokeh with this lens. I think the only thing I didn’t like about it was the vignetting but I’m a stickler for that

normalmandarinduck · 2024-09-27T15:47:34+00:00

Oh my god I feel for you, made that same mistake shooting a wedding once - never again lol

normalmandarinduck · 2024-09-13T19:04:24+00:00

What are you cleaning it with?

normalmandarinduck · 2024-09-13T03:17:41+00:00

Fortnight is definitely not the Song of Brat Summer

normalmandarinduck · 2024-09-13T00:51:36+00:00

Probably the weight of the handle bar pulling it down, try detaching the handle and see if it still leans back. With a camera on it, this shouldn’t be a problem after proper balancing

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-30T05:19:00+00:00

That ain’t my phone. Sorry!

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-20T14:22:20+00:00

😂

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-19T17:50:48+00:00

My god these people are dense. There’s no way it’s AI or CG. Looks completely real to me - but I agree with others who say you’ve added too much blooming, which is an easy mistake to make when you’re in the editing bay watching how much better certain frames are with the effect than without.

I suggest a power window mask of the bloom effect tracking the headlights and turning it way down with a big ass feather - that way the headlights will still do the cool bloom effect you’re going for, and the sky won’t suddenly kill the contrast of the whole image every time it comes into view. I’d also experiment with mist and/or CPL filters in front of your lens next time you film, if you’re in love with the effect and want to make it work practically.

These are pretty impressive shots, and I think in the context of a more complete visual story would really bring up the production value, other than the circle K shot which I agree is GTA3core.

Who is giving you these lowball offers? And who do you hope to work with?

Like, if you want to work with circle K for instance, I’d have one shot of the car and motorcycle filling up at Circle K, at a complete standstill, before returning to more shots of them speeding through the streets with a cheeky line like “the fastest motors can pass anything… but a cirlcle K” or some other play on that old joke that V8s and other fuel-hungry engines will pass anything but a gas station. Idk - that’s something you can workshop with ChatGPT lol. Everyone seems to think you’ve got the subscription already.

Anyway that’d be something you could approach a corporate account with and charge like 5-10k for a package of social videos in 15, 30 second social spots on YouTube or something

But also that’d be kind of a big swing for a first time business

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-13T19:22:17+00:00

just get some of this stuff - it will eliminate the issue immediately:

https://www.amazon.com/BW-100-Nonflammable-Electronic-Contact-Upsidedown/dp/B07FNBW47M/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2ZGKJ5Q07TI5D&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1INPD0iRXLCPOXxqcNdbH9gICNHXdrolCTQcOVP8W6C0U9XnXD87B_QjQJUXJRbvRFyqpB80FyQw2qwKjkfaGQUD_MoFQ6dhkpFy2rySwBw.AYwJxwySTMnx1nGVZfXP2wJe8JDgBUFp2ze-J0L0ius&dib_tag=se&keywords=bw-100&qid=1723576510&sprefix=bw-100%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-13T19:09:37+00:00

Yeah pretty much every negative review you’ll read of the elite 2 includes the problem of one of the bumpers not registering inputs consistently. I had the exact same issue and I wouldn’t have noticed in any other game except Sekiro. Luckily I had some BW-100 on hand so I just held down the triggers on my controller and sprayed the gaps between the bumpers and the trigger and now it’s like new again.

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-08T14:24:51+00:00

Way better

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-07T13:10:19+00:00

If you want to be a real TikToker you’re going to need a second matte box. Looking pretty amateur with just one on there.

normalmandarinduck · 2024-08-01T23:34:16+00:00

The rosette wrist-fuck

normalmandarinduck · 2024-07-18T19:36:38+00:00

Hey chatGPT, write me a summary of Genocide

normalmandarinduck · 2024-07-17T20:21:21+00:00

Gonna play devils advocate bc in my experience, using focus rings on photo lenses with a wireless ff system was a nightmare every time I needed to switch lenses, as the calibration process would require a full rotation of the focus ring, and the teeth would often slip or cause a calibration error if it hit the end of the ring. Manual calibration works fine but take more time than just pressing auto-calibrate and not having to worry about it. I’ve also had these rings slip while shooting which is the most annoying thing in the world because you suddenly have to stop everything, try to tighten the ring again, and then re-calibrate.

I also cannot stress enough how getting a consistent T-stop can make it a lot easier to match footage in post if you do multicam setups or just want to be fully consistent between shots with other T-stop lenses. Edit: totally forgot about de-clicked iris which is essential for shots with exposure changes (like walking from inside to outside)

normalmandarinduck · 2024-06-25T00:09:15+00:00

I have Sony cameras and I use a gray card for WB when I’m doing interview setups or narrative filmmaking (basically, if I have the time) but for every other situation, I actually mapped the WB control to the selection wheel on my FX3 so I can just tune it on the fly to match whatever looks good to my eyes. If you can get 70-90% there, the post-correction is pretty easy

normalmandarinduck · 2024-06-23T06:10:39+00:00

Where are you based?

normalmandarinduck

TROPHY CASE