Vers Glas

Last Friday I shot the premiere of 'Vers Glas" (Fresh Glass; Bert Haanstra's Academy Award winning movie, with 4 new soundtracks performed live)
If you've never seen the movie: Correct that. It's nice.

The four *very* different 'soundtracks' made the movie appear different each time. Quite fun.

All images here

Logically, light was almost non-existent. So everything was shot off a tripod.

Exif is in the images.
Lenses used: 20/1.8; 28/1.8; 50/1.4; 85/1.8 and 80-200L.
ISO 1600, manual, around 1/10s at f/1.8 or equivalent. Blended exposures in Raw.
Some screens have been photoshopped in...

Near the end of the show, my camerabroke down, so I had to finish the shoot on manual focus. At least some images were sharp (like the last one)
Exif in those shots says "0" for aperture, where in truth the lenses were shot wide open.

1: Konrad Koselleck Big Band performing a composition by Ron Hubbard:

wow no comments?

this is very good shooting in a difficult setting. i've done a few shots w/ performers in front of backdrops, and it's very hard to get a decent amount of light on the performer while not blowing out the screen image.

it helps that the musicians (seated ones, anyway) had some light source shining on them. but 1 and 2 are very well executed. straight exposures or blended?

narlus wrote in post #4097314
wow no comments?

I guess everybody is watching the movie
They should; it's only 10 minutes...

While photographing, the movie was on screen about 10 times. I watched an eleventh time on youtube, because I hadn't really seen it

narlus wrote in post #4097314
this is very good shooting in a difficult setting. i've done a few shots w/ performers in front of backdrops, and it's very hard to get a decent amount of light on the performer while not blowing out the screen image.

it helps that the musicians (seated ones, anyway) had some light source shining on them. but 1 and 2 are very well executed. straight exposures or blended?

Thanks!
The lighting certainly helped... (except where it hit the screen)
Allmost all images are blended (except for the rehearsal ones): The screen was about one stop too bright... (and had (still has sometimes) a funky color cast)

Well, rather Avant Garde, eh? It's a pity about your camera ... 1D2? How many acutations?

Avant Garde? I guess you could say so about the music, but the movie is from 1958

Or did you refer to the images?

Actuations: Not sure. About 90-100k I guess.
It's being repaired now and should be as good as new (actually better I hope)