A few tests

[alex.stefani]

Juan rocks!

[david evans]

Hey guys

Color Grading work has just finished by our fantastic colorist Juan Melara. A few stills of the finished work:

[david evans]

Have to say I forgot they were shot on an Alexa and I happily thought it was a 4.6k. I'm struggling to see differences between them now. It's not like a red were it has that yellow and high contrast.

I agree with you. The UM, especially after Gen4, is closer to the Alexa sensor than the Red cameras. A few more grabs:

[Michael Sandiford]

Have to say I forgot they were shot on an Alexa and I happily thought it was a 4.6k. I'm struggling to see differences between them now. It's not like a red were it has that yellow and high contrast.

[david evans]

Thanks guys! These were taken with my faithful tokina 28-70, except the 4th one which is the 11-16.

[jambredz]

Really great images. Are these Ursa mini ones also shot on the Master primes?

[Light&Color]

Stunning! Really nice images!

[david evans]

Almost finished shooting the outdoors. These were done with the Ursa Mini :

[david evans]

Some darker shots towards the end of the story:

[david evans]

Ooh its an an alexa and not an 4.6k?

Yeah, sorry if it was misleading. But I still feel it's perfectly possible to achieve a similar look with the UM4.6k. The biggest difference I feel between both cameras is the way an Alexa footage is so easily graded. That and that obvious skin tone mojo.

[polaroid22]

Ooh its an an alexa and not an 4.6k?

[jambredz]

That Alexa skin tone....damn.

[david evans]

This looks really good. Looks like some diffusion was used in some shots. What filter was that?

Thanks jambredz, good eye on spotting the diffusion. I actually used different strengths of promists towards the ending of the story. Here are a few examples (first three are without diffusion and the last three are with promists 1/4):

[david evans]

Wow! Really great stuff. These are some of the best looking and most cinematic frames I've seen shot on Blackmagic. Did you use any sort of diffusion with the Master Primes?

Thanks. I used different strengths of promists on different scenes, especially when the story approaches the end and I wanted a more mystical look. I actually shot this on an Alexa XR with MPs, but it was just because the rental house was kind enough to lend me that camera with no extra charge. I know my Ursa Mini well enough to know that I could pull a very similar look. The MPs, on the other hand, are a very very... very hard to beat set of lenses.

[jambredz]

This looks really good. Looks like some diffusion was used in some shots. What filter was that?