White Balance Blog

Wow, I’m floored by the response to the last post! Some great suggestions on some of the frame grabs of the loops I posted. Here’s some modifications to the church spires, based on feedback from the last post.

The sepia is a little too yellow, I may try to warm it up. I used the Tritone filter in After Effects to do what I would do to still images (this is really just moving still images, if you think about it). I tried to color the shadow tones, but didn’t push it enough and it’s just kind of dark now.

I’ve been having some trouble getting these rendered out of After Effects. For some reason, it gets hung up within a half hour of starting. I’ve been trying to use the excellent AERender (which uses a command-line Terminal interface to manage the renders, freeing up After Effects and rendering the project in Matrix-y, geeky glory) – but half the time I can’t get it to initiate. Such are the travails of the artist these days, I suppose.

Here’s a short loop of the triple-wide video in action:

The clouds move a little fast – that’s how the footage came. I’m talking to Dave the cinematographer about getting the source footage, if it still exists. Oh, one question I had was the camera (“It’s so sharp!”); Dave shot this (I believe) on a Sony EX3 – which was in the hands of a master.

What do you think?

Posted by Allan White in Landscape & Still Life, Visual Worship