Great Wooden Boats: RED EPIC

Whilst on holiday near the Great Lakes in June I was able to borrow Eric Kessler's RED Epic for a few days. I messed around with the slow motion 300 FPS first thing but I really wanted to shoot a little piece with it so we found the Great Lakes Boat Building Company online. Phoned them up and asked if we could spend two hours with them making a little film...Mike, the owner said of course!

Loads more details on my website:

gopb.co/​greatwoodenboats

greatwoodboats.com/​

Shot on the RED EPIC
Music by Drew Barefoot "Enjoy the calm"

Courtesy ofwww. withetiquette.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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• red
• epic
• philip
• bloom
• wooden
• boats
• south
• haven
• michigan

[jasedotcom]

Honestly, a 5D looks the same on the web.

[philipbloom]

@jasedotcom a 5d cannot do 300fps

[YoussefAbdelmohsen]

OMG YESS!!! NEW PHILIP BLOOM VIDEO!!!! btw philip I wanna ask you a question about cinematography? What is the best way to contact you? I wanna know how you do the pan while doing a timelapse at the same time! pleeeease answer this! I am a huge fan of you and you inspire me cause it's very close to what I do too!

[philipbloom]

@YoussefAbdelmohsen you either get a motorised head like a kessler one...a cheap motorised telescope one or do it in post!

[oletheking92]

Why not 4K? Youtube can handle 4K, cant it?

[MrNuun]

@stevenlattaDP I get your point.. And yes, I've seen the Great Camera Shootout. I must agree.. On the color test in the still life part the Alexa was superior. However I do believe that those extra pixels you get in 5K give it that unique quality. And I can see why you appreciate those extra thoughts into the Alexa more than with RED cameras. However you should agree that the general audience does not appreciate it as much. And so directors and DPs choose image quality over color precision.

[stevenlattaDP]

@MrNuun Watch Zacuto's Great Camera Shootout 2011

[stevenlattaDP]

@MrNuun I understand what you mean but a camera has an inherent ability to reproduce the colors it is filming before grading. I have shot and colored a good deal with RED (RED ONE, MX, and EPIC). The way RED samples color is very much inferior to Alexa. Sacrificing resolution (which beyond 2K is essentially beyond the human eye. Arri understood this and thus left it at 2K) Arri put dual photo receptors on each pixel. As such its color is much closer to your eye than RED and much more natural.

[MrNuun]

@stevenlattaDP I'm sure you know more about it than me.. But have you ever shot anything with a RED camera? Have you ever colored it? There's so many posibilities with the images you get out of them.. I don't think it's the camera you might not like.. It's also about the colorer behind it if you talk about artificial color reproduction.. IMO it might not exceed the Alexa but it sertainly doesn't get wiped down by an Alexa.

[ReflexEight]

No 4K? Awwwww...

[rhyskallen]

@oletheking92 i think it only supports 2k witch is the original setting

[robojot]

@oletheking92 i dont think 4k works at 300 fps...

[justinsuperstar]

@philipbloom AGREED

[stevenlattaDP]

I'm sick of RED footage. Very artificial color reproduction. It doesnt matter if its 4k or 40k or 400k. The Alexa wipes the floor with it and it is 2k. RED MX is even worse.

[sterlingz]

Absolutely beautiful, Phillip. One of your best.