[Konvas] under - and overexposing

[Ole Dost]

Thank you Adam!
Well, the film is about the birth of our son in Mai this year. I don´t
wanted to do a simple family movie, but to make a shortfilm out of it, that
really tells a story in some few minutes. There´s some symbolism involved:
The beetle made of chocolate you can see on the well in one of the frames.
This artificial beetle represents the true species Melolontha melolontha,
that is very well known in European countries. It appears only in Mai and it
is rather big and dark brown coloured. Because our son Christian is born in
Mai, this beetle represents him. I wanted to film the true animal with my
beloved macro equipment (35mm still foto lenses combined with extension
tubes on my Éclair ACL), but I found no living beetle in the nature.
So I had to choose the artificial chocolate imitation, that you can buy
everywhere here in Mai -it´s almost as famous as the living animal.
The film starts with the pregnant mother and ends with returning from
hospital.
I chose B&W film because I think that babies look best when shot in B&W. (I
am also taking B&W Mediumformat stillfotos with the Ukrainian imitation of
the Pentacon Six TL you have been writing about -btw, do you know that the
lenses for the Pentacon Six /Kiew 60 cameras are great on the Konvas 1M?
Olexandr Kalynychenko makes adapters to put them on the Konvas machines
-enabling Konvas 1M -users to use longer focal lengths then 135mm...)
You see: My film project about my sons birth is certainly not as serious as
the projects you professionals are doing. I hope you don´t consider
ridiculous what I am doing... But those family events help me to train
myself in story-telling by motionpictures and this helps me to be prepared
for those opportunities, when serious projects can be done.
My next "family-training-short" will tell the story about one typical day in
the life of my son. This will be my first entirely Konvas 35mm filmed
shortfilm. I am looking to this experience of 35mm-Konvas-training that will
hopefully lead me to more Konvas-projects. It´s really great to use it
(until now, I used mostly 16mm).
Ole

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Von: cinema-bounces at konvas.org [mailto:cinema-bounces at konvas.org] Im Auftrag
von Adam Frey
Gesendet: Montag, 1. September 2008 17:45
An: Konvas Discussion List
Betreff: Re: [Konvas] under - and overexposing

I'm not sure about Adobe Premiere, Ole, but I think Todd Terry has 
Premiere at his office - but today is a Holiday here in the states, so 
he might be out until tomorrow...

I'm not sure, but I think it also looks like the camera was pointed into 
the Sun a little. Looking closely at both frames, it appears that there 
are light flares that seem to be angled in from the top of the building 
on the left in frame 1 and (what should be the same building) on the 
right in frame 2.

If that's the case, it's possible that the image was also affected by an 
element in the lens, which could have had extra light from the Sun 
itself affecting the image via the glass (possibly bouncing light off an 
inner element - I've had that issue more than once).

But, back to what everyone has been saying - I'd check the negative and 
see what it looks like...

Good Luck with the shoot! What's the film about anyway?

Adam Frey
Director/Cinematographer
Crimson Chain Productions
http://crimsonchain.com

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