Essential The Official Photography Thread

[shutterguy]

Went with the GH5 for 4K 60fps at that $2K price point.
Depth of field isn't an issue, low light performance can be but honestly, it's not as bad as some people on the net would have you believe.
With some native prime lenses I found the low light performance to be solid in 95% of situations.
About a month or so I put down about $10k in more equipment to keep the businesses moving forward. Picked up a metabones speed booster that allows me to use canon lenses on the GH5 as well as improves the amount of light I'm getting into the small sensor. Copped a cage with a top handle and side handle. A ninja inferno monitor which gives me the ability to film 10 bit 4K 60fps in ProRes. A sigma 18-35mm art lens and I have a 50-100mm sigma art lens on the way. Copped some new gear for the studio as well (UA Apollo X6, Adams Ax7's and Avantone MixCubes)
I launched my LLC in 2018 and had an amazing first year.
We've already done 10 (training) videos for the Navy, a few realty walk throughs, videos for local businesses, and a few government contractors.
I'm still working my 9-5 but the plan is to limit my hours to part time by the end of 2019 and put my primary focus on my business. I'd love to be doing this 100% full time by next year but I'm patient. If it takes longer I'm cool with that.
Here are some links to some of our videos that we've been allowed to make public.

on the bolded and video production. A goal of a few cats I know that are behind the lenses, myself included.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

breh gonna be shooting the next avenger film next

Just wondering for like one of those clips how many hours of footage did you shoot to cut down to like 3 minutes, were you like handed a script of what they were doing or did you also have to like direct what to do etc?

And then how long did it take for you to cut down the footage and make it into the final product?

Thanks man.
For all of these shoots we’ve written the script and directed the whole thing. Most people really have no clue what they want so we sit down and talk to them about their business activity, goals, and how they want to present themselves to the market and then we come up with everything ourselves.
A 2 - 3 minute video takes us about 3 - 4 hours to shoot from “hello” to “goodbye”. (It varies depending the complexity of course. We shot a 3:30 minute music video about a month ago that took us about 8 hours)
Editing can take up to about 8 hours.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

on the bolded and video production. A goal of a few cats I know that are behind the lenses, myself included.

Little by little breh. It’s not easy, but if you’re the type of person that wakes up everyday irked by the idea of making SOMEONE ELSE money, then the pain is worth it. A 9 - 5 is fine, I don’t knock people for it, but for me, it’s just not for me anymore. I need something I can pass down to my kids. I can’t be hustling my whole life to build someone else’s empire, especially not in America where we have so many opportunities.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Yal probably don't have this issue personally, but you might have clients that do...

I made a quick lil video to share with people/clients in general to ensure they're posting delivered work/content in the best quality as possible on Facebook.





I don't know how many times I've seen it, but people will pay all that money on wedding photos, or promo videos etc to share on Facebook, and when they post it, it's in standard definition



I've literally shot 4K video for a client, and when the work got posted, the highest resolution option was 360p. And I've told folks prior to them sharing it to make sure they check the settings, even put some screen caps together, so if they don't do it after watching this I don't know what to tell em.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Yal probably don't have this issue personally, but you might have clients that do...

I made a quick lil video to share with people/clients in general to ensure they're posting delivered work/content in the best quality as possible on Facebook.





I don't know how many times I've seen it, but people will pay all that money on wedding photos, or promo videos etc to share on Facebook, and when they post it, it's in standard definition



I've literally shot 4K video for a client, and when the work got posted, the highest resolution option was 360p. And I've told folks prior to them sharing it to make sure they check the settings, even put some screen caps together, so if they don't do it after watching this I don't know what to tell em.

Nope. You ain’t the only one. I’ve made videos just like that explaining how to upload to instagram, Facebook, and YouTube and they still get it wrong. It blows my mind how many people pay for something high quality and are way more concerned with getting it out as fast as possible instead of taking the two three extra steps to upload it correctly. You have no idea how many people I’ve seen upload videos to IG and they don’t bother to choose a thumbnail. On the timeline it’s just a big black box instead of an interesting still from the video.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Nope. You ain’t the only one. I’ve made videos just like that explaining how to upload to instagram, Facebook, and YouTube and they still get it wrong. It blows my mind how many people pay for something high quality and are way more concerned with getting it out as fast as possible instead of taking the two three extra steps to upload it correctly. You have no idea how many people I’ve seen upload videos to IG and they don’t bother to choose a thumbnail. On the timeline it’s just a big black box instead of an interesting still from the video.

The infamous IG black box, because people don't pick a frame for the cover. There's a lot of people don't know how to just expand the aspect ratio for IG clips. Gave my boy the footage for his artshow recap that I did for them, and instead of posting the widescreen/full picture for it, he posts it as a square, proceeding to cut off some of the motion graphics I put in the beginning of the video.

 

[richtree]

Anyone have the canon 35mm f2 ?

Thinking of getting it

Depending on your budget, look into the sigma art series

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Depending on your budget, look into the sigma art series

I have the 18-35 and it's straight fire
I've had the 50-100mm on order since december and B&H still hasn't shipped it yet.
Backorder is expected to ship early January....so hopefully it ships by next week.

 

[MikelArteta]

Depending on your budget, look into the sigma art series

35mm 1.4?

 

[MikelArteta]

I have the 18-35 and it's straight fire
I've had the 50-100mm on order since december and B&H still hasn't shipped it yet.
Backorder is expected to ship early January....so hopefully it ships by next week.

It’s always crazy to me how lenses hold their value

Ish is like art

Like screw a picssso just give me a lens

 

[GoldenGlove]

It’s always crazy to me how lenses hold their value

Ish is like art

Like screw a picssso just give me a lens

Yeah... I don't like that shyt cause I typically only buy lenses that I know I'll always have a use for.


I don't sell much off, so I always gotta pay to play for these expensive ass shyts

 

[richtree]

35mm 1.4?

Yessir!

 

[8WON6]

The weather got up to like 55 over the weekend so we got a shoot in.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Yeah... I don't like that shyt cause I typically only buy lenses that I know I'll always have a use for.


I don't sell much off, so I always gotta pay to play for these expensive ass shyts

What do you think about the Tamron 28-75/f2? Im strongly thinking of copping this lens for my a7iii

 

[GoldenGlove]

What do you think about the Tamron 28-75/f2? Im strongly thinking of copping this lens for my a7iii

Cop it. It'll be better than the kit lens and it's far cheaper than Sony's alternative with sharp results.

Edit: it's an f2.8, not f2 btw