mesto design

Cinnamon Chasers Music Video

Luv Deluxe by Cinnamon Chasers
Album: A Million Miles From Home
Modus Records / Koch Entertainment
Directed by: Saman Keshavarz
Shot entirely on the Canon 5D Mark II w/ a custom face mounted rig – Canon Lenses used: 14mm (f2.8) & 24mm (f1.4)

Canon 5D Mark II video selections

Light from Dan Rubottom on Vimeo.

Eiffel Tower on Fire from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.

Absolute – Behind the scenes from Ed Thomas on Vimeo.

A day like today from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo.

Another spectacular piece made on 5D MK2

Created and directed by Robin Risser

I love the small subtleties  in this video such as the clash between the pure, clean and perfect aesthetic of the character’s suit mixed with elements of old and cracked furniture, broken umbrella and dust in the air. The story (or my twisted interpretation of it) makes me feel quite nostalgic. Don’t ask why. Just watch!

Time lapse experiment

One Saturday morning I wanted to tidy up the back of my house a bit and film myself working and create a time lapse . Instead of shooting video I wanted to take a sequence of photos over a course of couple of hours in equal intervals. I run a simple app through my 5D Mk2, put it together and this is the result.

Notes:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 28-105mm
DSLR Remote Pro (Windows only) allows you to fully control your camera from a PC over USB cable
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Video Compressor: H.264
Frame rate: 24fps
F number: 4
ISO was set to 200 and no auto light setting. And since the weather was quite tricky that day you can see how dynamic the light was.
Next time I would set up aspect ratio of the stills to mach some video size convention as they ended up being 1680×1080. I didn’t want to crop anything afterward as I was quite happy with the composition based on three even horizontal stripes.
The script triggered the shutter every 1.8 seconds, took 4000 photos in 120 minutes.
Image setting: JPEG small/fine.
My 5D2 has a battery grip with 2 LP-E6’s fully charged. At the end of the process the battery level was at 75% – not bad. However, I had preview set to OFF and nothing showing in the display (hit INFO. button twice on your camera). Images can be saved to both PC Hard Drive or/and the camera memory card. In my case I was not able to set it to camera only application error.

Music: Kusanagi – Electro Dori.