@endotoxic That was really good, and the music choice was a judicious match. I'm in agreement with kholi re: girl with horse video.

The only thing wrong with this final cut's the black spaces in between shots. Tell the guy or gal that cut it that it's 23.98 footage, take it off of the 29.97 timeline that they set it up on and put it back on a 24 timeline to get rid of the black frames.

In my opinion, since you're asking for them, this final cut makes your work look a lot better on most levels. =] I've watched your other videos, personally, I would like to see the one with the chic and the horse recut by this same person if it wasn't already.

The cut that you have up is very hard to watch.

@endotoxic I tottaly agree. It's about feelings and motion. Playing with technics to get those moments. It's really silly to tie up our hands and say "you can't do that"... Because you can! And that's the genius about it :) keep experiment and reach out for new ideas. Only way to become a master IMHO. I agree with @TrackZillas, you can get up there. Don't stop showing us stuff! :)

@endotoxic Keep doing your thing great work, all you can do is go up from there.

thank you very much @mshires. I put lots of effort on it, you kind comments put me in happy moods.

"Saying that shallow-DOF is a "home-video-look" is just objectively false. It makes no sense at all."

It makes even less sense to repeatedly counter an assertion no one has made in this thread.

Thanks @Hallvalla you are the only one to like it for what it is. Thanks, also if you have comments please feel free to make them

There's nothing wrong with using shallow DOF, liberally even. It's questionable when it's used simply because it can be and not for a specific reason, whether that reason is to direct the viewer's eye or to convey some emotional component through the overall aesthetic of movement, sound and focus. Ask yourself why you're shooting it in this way in the greater question of why are you showing the viewer this shot at all. Arriving at this takes practice though so the haters should check themselves or offer up their own footage for inspection and pointed critique.

Rather than turn into another DOF hater thread (that being the easy critique, like reducing anamorphic photography to horizontal flares and oval bokeh) this thread could have been more meaningful if it would have been a discussion on the economy of shots/cuts. "Why am I looking at this/Why am I showing the audience this?" is more important than whether or not the focus was shallow or deep.

its not "elite" proper focusing, either proper focusing is 5.6 dear spacewig, the focusing is for centering the atention.

No, I just meant that the trend of simply calling shallow-DOF "amateur" and "home-video-ish", because it's now available to a lot of people, is elitist. Home video cameras have NEVER had shallow-DOF before 3 years ago. Saying that shallow-DOF is a "home-video-look" is just objectively false. It makes no sense at all.

I do actually like deeper focus myself... but shallow-DOF is not instantly amateur. To MOST PEOPLE (aka. your audience) shallow DOF will still be perceived as more cinematic.

Elite? You've misread or misunderstood what I was trying to communicate. I never said that a film had to have deep focus, what I said was when the image is out of focus it looks bad and seems like the camera is in the hands of an amateur, kind of like cropping the chin of an actor of having him part way out of the frame. And the number of videos being made with this problem has been compounded due to gratuitous d.o.f. porn that is a corollary to filming with a DSLR.

@endotoxic Yes, keeping the DR in check is hard, but don't forget that the movie industry does it everyday. Lighting is probably the most important part of a good looking shot. The production design is probably second and the camera 3rd. Movies are lighted a lot brighter in real life than you see on the screen and they stop the lens down a bit, centered around F5.6(sweet spot for most lenses). This gives sharper frames but also increases contrast a little bit too.

As far as your hard light, you can use "frost" gels instead of diffusion. Frosts and/or opals will soften the light slightly but leave the beam mostly intact. You might try them if you want to soften the light slightly but still keep a hard looking light. Also, don't be afraid to raise your base exposure with fill light. Even a small amount of heavily diffused light will help drastically.

Thank you @svart :) there the shoot was mainly T2-2.8 maybe i should stayed with T3.5 iso 500 and a propper 4x4 ND. I decided to used the variable ND since when i was walking the light was on the floor and the luminosity from meter to meter changer very much. GH2 is no Dinamic range winner, and keeping the footage in proper exposure is some times hard when hard light is used. I must practice my shots well before making them happe. Thanks for the advises.

@spacewig

THank you very much for the comments, im in a learning prosess, and by having people like you putting hard truth is good for me. Im not a D.O.F fan though, you should look at my other work, i usually prefer T4 ir T5.6

Since it was the first time i operate the camera with 3 rings at the same time (Variable ND, Focus, Aperture) and had no follow focus since "some one that owns this web page" have not give me back my bad part when i bough it. So it was hand held, first timer with 3 rings , iso 400, shutter 40 ( since ive found it has the best cadence for 24p of all ) rokinon 24 T1.5. I wanted to make it personal make it T2 or T2.8 for face, and T5.6 for wide steady shots. Since the light was set by me, and the actors where alone with me and the camera on hand. I must admit i should practised more on my skills, and YES you are right " is the perfect opportunity to hone your craft and become more intimate" but since im the cinematographer (in early stages yes) i cant become more intimate than this, so im really glad you made your opinion. :)

Casting girl, wow one of the top midle age model in Perú my country. 38 years old. She is very pretty.

Please feel free to se other work from me, i assure you its not that bad with the focusing ( exept for my heavy adiction to long shots and shoulder mounting camera wich makes it more dificult )

@RRRR Thanks for the kind comment. My intentions posting this was for adquiring some more personal views. :)

Here are some othe moon footage:

This one was made on B&W in a slaughter house.

This is moon and apocalipse, moon is better.

Here the images of the model on the first video. Jessica Vasquez