Taylor Creek Park - March 9th, 2010

I decided to take my new Canon T2i/550d out into the wild to shoot some test footage. Here's what I got.

Location: Taylor/Massey Creek, East York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Around 1-2:30pm

Tech Specs:
Canon T2i
24 fps
1080p
ISO 100 (except for the shot of the squirrel and maybe one more)
Handheld

Music:
'Planets' by Still Life Still (from East York)
www.stilllifestill.com

All Footage the Property of Mike Naulls, © 2010

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• taylor creek
• toronto
• east york
• canon
• t2i
• 550d
• dslr
• vdslr
• canada
• nature
• winter
• mike
• naulls

[jazzmatik]

What did you do in post? Add contrast mainly? What program do you use? It looks beautiful.

[MCAN]

@jazzmatik Thank you.

Yes, mainly I added contrast, adjusted hue/saturation, and added lens effects like vignettes, gradients, and soft edges.

I used After Effects to do all the work with Magic Bullet Looks helping me out on a couple shots. All the AE work (excluding the MBL shots) was done with out of the box plug-ins, nothing fancy.

[jazzmatik]

Awesome, thanks for sharing, it's interesting to know your workflow. I suggest getting a good prime lens and a macro lens for even more dynamic shots.

[MCAN]

@jazzmatik

Yeah I was waiting for my lens adapter when I shot this so I couldn't use my old primes until about a week later. I have a set of primes and a macro that I can use now so it's all good

[lovestospoodge]

much, MUCH better video than the original, lol, did you ask them for their permission to use the song? If so, you should post it on their wall man.

[MCAN]

No I never did ask them but I'm sure they're cool with it. They're letting me use their shirts in my next movie so I'm sure using their song for a 2 minute clip is alright.

I wanted to add that pop up 'Buy this song on iTunes' thing but didn't know how.

[lovestospoodge]

Yeah I'm sure they wouldn't care, but you should post it and see what they think, perhaps you could make their next one!!!

[MCAN]

Oh yeah I would be very upset if I got that vignetting from the lens

[odinata]

Thank goodness.

[MCAN]

Yes