Posted by Joe Rogers on October 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM
Do any of you know of a good video tutorial preferably by a landscape photographer that teaches blending and masking techniques for optimal focus and exposere? Again, it must be video...I learn best that way. I am not a beginner and just want to see a professional approach to this technique.
Joe Rogers
You may check out some of Scott Kelby's stuff (think that is his name). Might cost you some cash though.
For exposure blends and the such you can learn a lot from Tony Kuyper's luminosity techniques and also Cambridge at Night. But they both require reading, no vids.
I've not tried them myself, but from time to time I've been tempted to purchase the "intelligent HDR" webinars offered by Jay and Varina Patel. I have every reason to believe that they are excellent. Check out this link (sorry, don't know how to make this "live"): http://www.photographybyvarina.com/photography/category/tutorials.
I'll come at it from a different angle, a blend of ignorance and related experience.
Over the years I've worked a fair bit with video production outfits, everything from large national firms contracted to major networks to medium outfits doing contract productions. Following the shoots I've also had the chance to work with the producers, directors and technical folks that have to pull a production from all the footage.
One term permeates their location shoots, and it's a universal point of discussion among the folks pointing the cameras and the on-site directors, as well as in post-production.
It's called "B roll."
B Roll is all the extra footage they shoot in between the scripted shoots, the stuff they send the camera crew out for while the rest of us are in production meetings, and even take breaks in scripted shoots to capture special moments. B Roll is the scenery stuff, the "glue" that holds the final product together, often with voice over, and critical for flow. And it's virtually all landscape. The best example I can think of is called "Natural Moment" or something like that and appears at the end of the CBS news program Sunday Morning. That's a "production" taken from B Roll, I'm sure, because the locations they feature are almost always adjacent to the site of a major production.
Long story short, it may be worth your while to google "B Roll video" or some such. It's too common and important a thread through all professional location shoots, and I have to bet there's lots of talk about it among the pros. Heck, you might even find B Roll classes in production schools.
Like I said, I'm ignorant as a video shooter, but experienced with video field shoots. But as a matter of fact, I'm sometimes asked by the pros if I know of local video that they can buy for B Roll weeks or months after they've finished their principal shoot. I'd bet there are occasional sales waiting for amateur shooters with good libraries.
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6 repliesJoe Rogers
For exposure blends and the such you can learn a lot from Tony Kuyper's luminosity techniques and also Cambridge at Night. But they both require reading, no vids.
But I don’t think there is any focus blending info.
http://www.ianplant.com/creative-digital-processing-video-tutorials.htm
Over the years I've worked a fair bit with video production outfits, everything from large national firms contracted to major networks to medium outfits doing contract productions. Following the shoots I've also had the chance to work with the producers, directors and technical folks that have to pull a production from all the footage.
One term permeates their location shoots, and it's a universal point of discussion among the folks pointing the cameras and the on-site directors, as well as in post-production.
It's called "B roll."
B Roll is all the extra footage they shoot in between the scripted shoots, the stuff they send the camera crew out for while the rest of us are in production meetings, and even take breaks in scripted shoots to capture special moments. B Roll is the scenery stuff, the "glue" that holds the final product together, often with voice over, and critical for flow. And it's virtually all landscape. The best example I can think of is called "Natural Moment" or something like that and appears at the end of the CBS news program Sunday Morning. That's a "production" taken from B Roll, I'm sure, because the locations they feature are almost always adjacent to the site of a major production.
Long story short, it may be worth your while to google "B Roll video" or some such. It's too common and important a thread through all professional location shoots, and I have to bet there's lots of talk about it among the pros. Heck, you might even find B Roll classes in production schools.
Like I said, I'm ignorant as a video shooter, but experienced with video field shoots. But as a matter of fact, I'm sometimes asked by the pros if I know of local video that they can buy for B Roll weeks or months after they've finished their principal shoot. I'd bet there are occasional sales waiting for amateur shooters with good libraries.