My good friend Tommy Bartlett is videographer. We've been working on a project together, this is the first 1/2.
Enjoy
https://videopress.com/v/XbjGe6vW
My good friend Tommy Bartlett is videographer. We've been working on a project together, this is the first 1/2.
Enjoy
https://videopress.com/v/XbjGe6vW
Last edited by Brian Holcombe; 10-17-2017 at 1:53 PM.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
Always good to see your workspace and process.
Most excellent, but I'm afraid were going to need more, lot's more!
Rick
Nice! Beautiful photography.
Nice plane. I see your hands turn JP White Oak black too.
Nice hammer. Copper-plated or solid copper?
Looking forward to seeing more, especially your hikouki kanna in action.
Are you going to make full-blown 2-layer mentori kumiko with a kamahozo top rail?
Do you always use a plane left-handed, or are you entirely ambidextrous?
And what about your planing robe and embroidered planing slippers? You look wonderful darling. Don't tease us forever.
Stan
Last edited by Stanley Covington; 10-17-2017 at 3:39 PM.
More robes and slippers, please.
Seriously my only critique, and this is subjective, is that I'm not a fan of the super-desaturated colors.
While I can understand the desire to avoid the "garish look" (which is undoubtedly worse) I think you've taken it too far. I imported the video to Premiere Pro and quickly looked at the vectorscope and waveforms, and it looks really compressed in chroma to me though reasonable in greyscale.
Full disclosure: I used to do a lot of color management in my former imaging role, so I'm picky.
Last edited by Patrick Chase; 10-17-2017 at 7:33 PM.
Thanks Gents, much appreciated!
Patrick,
Appreciate the feedback! Good eye! My friend Tommy did all of the videography, I encouraged him to take it anywhere he wanted and we bounced around ideas on how to play out the scene for this. We both wanted to do something where I'm not doing any sort of narration or anything like that, we wanted the feel of it to come through more than anything. I enjoy the desaturation, I think it goes well with the goal of the video which was to bring out the feeling of the work. He picked up on so many things that have gone unnoticed by me doing the work daily now.
Stan, the second half of the video is my cutting out a haunched double tenon with jaguchi shoulder, so it won't get into the kumiko work at all. We set aside about 7 hours or so for filming and these two parts ate up all of that. The work went fast but there is an incredible amount of setup for each small scene.
Haha, your comments have me rolling!!! I nearly forgot about the planing robe, that should be a video in and of itself. That hammer is solid copper, I love it, nice to use a hammer to set the blade and not damage anything. I also turn the wood black, I'm reactive it would seem, hah.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
Whoever does your hair and makeup did a wonderful job. You looked absolutely marvelous, dahling!
In combination with the planing wardrobe, some gold accessories, an earing and chain for instance, would add mystery. You should also consider a more "daisensei" style, perhaps something Yoda-like with green blush and some ear prosthetics complete with hairs for your next video.
See you at Canne, darling! Ha ha
Stan
Last edited by Stanley Covington; 10-18-2017 at 6:52 AM.
I'm hoping that it makes the rounds, would love to see people really share it.
Haha, I will take these under consideration Solid gold Jikatabi!?!
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
i saw about a 3:05 video that was elegantly produced which included a tad bit of sharpening, the plane setup and a few plane strokes / shavings. Is there more? How can I navigate to it.
If only you knew how difficult and time-consuming it is to produce video with those production values (notwithstanding my quibble about color-management in post).
There's a reason why most "high instructional content" WWing videos are basically an expert talking away in front of a single fixed camera, with maybe a few closeups at critical points. It would be too expensive to produce longer videos otherwise. This is more like a music video :-).
Last edited by Patrick Chase; 10-18-2017 at 7:08 PM.
Pat B, there will be more, this is intended as an introduction to my work not a 'how-to'. We wanted something that would introduce the spirit of the work to people entering my website and give a good idea of what it's all about rather than an essay or video with narration. I have plenty of that in other sections of my site, so for the landing page we wanted something exciting.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.