RED ONE WORKSHOP

OMG, almost a week since the last blog post, so sorry.

In the last post I promised to show and tell about the RED ONE camera seminar me and 6 others attended Thursday the 8th.


The RED ONE shoots in 4K resolution, which gives some pretty AMAZING pictures! For those of you that don't know how big 4K is:

The pink area is the standard resolution for a DVD. Then you have 720HD and 1080HD. If you have Blu-Ray player, you're watching 1080HD. Then you can imagine how massive and great the 4K pictures are with its 4096 x 2304 pixels. The image contains more information, more debt of colour and gives you a more "real" look. The great minds behind the RED cameras wanted to create something that would give you a better picture than 35mm film. No digital camera have been able to beat 35mm film with its many f-stops and high light sensitivity, before now. RED claims to have created a new sensor that will give you this.

Source: RED.com

Anyway, working with the RED ONE for a day was amazing! This is like porn to film students. Like I showed in the vlog post, the camera body alone costs 25 000 US$ (139 000kr/15 000£), so needless to say we were all very very careful. With started out with a technical lecture in the details around the RED cameras and he also compared RED ONE to DSLRs. Then we helped out in mounting this massive beast, with it's hard drives, batteries, viewfinders etc. After a quick lunch break, we headed out to film. One of our teachers had prepared a storyboard for us to shoot. So each of us did one shot each and we took turns changing lenses and filters, controlling focus and moving tripod and camera around. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! :D What really special, is that the RED cameras shoots in RAW format, meaning separate Red, Green and Blue channels, white balance, exposure etc. That means that in editing, the editor can change the light setting from day to night, he can colour correct much better and easier.

HDR still picture, three different exposures.            Soruce: klikk.no

Another feature on the RED Epis camera, is HDRx. For those of you that have done photography for a while, youæll recognise HDR, High Dynamic Range imagining. This is basically taking three (or more) different exposures and merge them together. One dark, one normal and one light, that's the basis of HDR. What HDRx is, is basically LIVE HDR. The Epic camera can shoot in HDR. This makes shooting where it's different lighting much easier. Let's say you're filming in a room with a window and it's daylight outside. You can adjust the exposure to the outside, but that makes the inside under exposed. If you adjust the exposure to inside, the outside would be over exposured. What you could do is to use lights to mimic the conditions outside, so you get a even exposure. With the RED Epic you don't have to. It shoot with different exposures, giving you a perfect exposed picture. That's pretty cool!

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RED ONE is growing rapidly and being used both in TV series and films. For example the new Pirates of the Carrabian or, one of my favorite films, Jumper. Or series like ER and Pretty Little Liars.

All images are the copyrighted works of the producer, distributor, or publisher of the work.

Anyway, that day was amazing! Had so much fun and learned loads about RED ONE. (But we only scratched the surface). Like I said, IT WAS AMAZING! :D

Seen this yet? Katy Perry's new music video, released 12th of June. I loved it! So fun. Did you?
Today's song: Katy Perry - Last Friday night (T.H.I.F.)