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4. Syria. The other side.

by Ruslan Fedotow

7 months ago

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by Ruslan Fedotow

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by Ruslan Fedotow

1 year ago

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Director of photography: Ruslan Fedotow
Edit/color: Ruslan Fedotow

70-200mm IS, 50mm 1.8

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monso 1 year ago

great work Ruslan,is awesome!!!
Anima3D 1 year ago

great
Hanna Mogila 1 year ago

круто!
Michael Crissinger 1 year ago

great images!
Alexander Znaharchuk 1 year ago

прикольно, но ролик ничем не закончился, некоторые кадры казались перетянутыми, иногда хотелось чтобы происходящее было замедленным. ну и мелкая дрожь картинки изза отсутствия стаба.
Верблюд - респект.
Alisa Kosmos 1 year ago

very nice colors and landscapes! i like it! :)
33hirtz 1 year ago

Superb!

:-)
Kamran Khan 1 year ago

hey man that such a phenomenal piece of work you produce, do u mind to share which camera did you use.
Phi Gi 1 year ago

by the tags, it looks like he shot it with a Canon 5d Mark II.
John O'Regan 1 year ago

Really enjoyed that, nice piece of work.
Youssef Ezzeddine 1 year ago

Love it.
Which camera has been used?
Daniel Skogli 1 year ago

There is something beautiful about the desert landscape, history written in time and the warm colors that attracts and makes me want to go filming and traveling in the middle east and Africa.

Really nice work. Great attention to everyday life and details =)
Daniel Skogli 1 year ago

Yes you are right a little typo there, it should say middle east and Africa.

Thanks for pointing it out.
Cheers
torrikabe 1 year ago

how to graded color liek that..
warm and cool..
the blueish is very nice..
bwwd 1 year ago

he graded it with CMYK color profile and bumped Cyan colour up.Most modern movies are graded like that.
Cheng See Yuan 1 year ago

And how it is done? does one need any particular software for that?
Filipe Figueira 11 months ago

I would love to know more about this process. Great job.
Can someone point to some links?
bwwd 11 months ago

Im using virtualdub CMYK film color plugin or gradiation curves plugin and then switch to CMYK color profile(its not possible in RGB profile)
Here ,originals are bottom ones:
imgur.com/vYpJa.jpg
On this one its visible on doors,green/blueish tint like in many modern movies
imgur.com/SCiR2.jpg
I dont know what you guys have so i cant help there.So in CMYK you need to bump up Cyan colour to achieve this.
Cheng See Yuan 11 months ago

That is really cool! really thanks a lot for sharing...
bwwd 11 months ago

you need to white balance properly to make this effect work tho,never white balance towards orange/peach colour,try to balance towards blue a bit more,but not too much ,just avoid white balancing into peach tint cause in order to correct it like that with cyan you need to have a lot of blue channel in your vid ,if theres too much red then sometimes you need to bring down red channel in darks to make it work.
Cheng See Yuan 11 months ago

Thanks for the further explanations :)
I am a Sony Vegas user... Do you use the 32-bit or 64-bit virtualdub?
bwwd 11 months ago

32 bit,here are some of today shots using cmyk color correction:
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L2LR 1 year ago

great. congratulations. beautiful images. what 70-200mm is it? F2.8 canon or f4 canon?
Sean Parsons 1 year ago

Sublime! Beautifully edited.
Ben 1 year ago

Beautiful!
Chris & Oliver 1 year ago

great colors. nice job!
timic0385 1 year ago

Хорошие Кадры !!
Jesse Knight 1 year ago

Truly Amazing!
Gabriela Dias 1 year ago

A fotografia está incrível e a cores também! Muito bom!
John Brackett 1 year ago

This is perfect digital cinema. Exotic travel captured with spectacular cinematography, editing and music. Great job!
Sneak Preview 1 year ago

Awesome added to vimeo.com/groups/dslrbackpackers
OneKoolKat 1 year ago

great footage!
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

very nice, but what's up with your username? What does it mean?
Luis Felipe Ribas 1 year ago

Amazing footage!
Rafael Trujillo Navas 1 year ago

Very good
Mateo Vega 1 year ago

Fucking beautiful.
Marco M 1 year ago

Really good work !! what equipment did you use ?
what treatment and what NLE did you use?
any plug ins or color correction ?

nice camera work.
Romeo Lee 1 year ago

Nice Arabic deserts and people
how innocent

May God reveal their pain and return peace to them
Jay Shropshire 1 year ago

Camel footage looks just as good as any RED footage, so clear and sharp amazing... thanks for sharing...
TARIFA RAK 1 year ago

Enhorabuena. Espectacular. Gracias.
Amila Galappatthi 1 year ago

Each piece of the visual is part of the story! Amazingly captured.
Laurent Tixhon 1 year ago

Great pictures !
Michael Haydon 1 year ago

Very nice.
boban2006 1 year ago

muy bueno lo que quieres reflejar...
Travis Guerra 1 year ago

Wonderful images. Nice to know what they think of us at 4:15.
Michael Struwig 1 year ago

Absolutely amazing. The imagery is beautiful - reminds me of many of my memories whilst travelling.

By the way, which soundtrack did you use? Really suited the video well.
Peter Hainzl 1 year ago

This is 'You R The Light' by Jawab-A-Shikwa
One Day on Earth 1 year ago

Awesome!
Max Fernandez 1 year ago

Amazing!. Just wonderful.
obay tarabichi 1 year ago

Magnificent .. it's perfect ,,really
Alex Kopan 1 year ago

wow incredible photography!
Vitaliy Alt 1 year ago

Просто потрясная работа! Руслан, РЕСПЕКТ.
Ricky Norris 1 year ago

that was so beautiful man. LOVED the shot at 2:50. you are so talented
Vladimir Yavorov 1 year ago

Very nice! Great shoots man!
Maciej Puczynski 1 year ago

Wonderful! The subtle, strong colors - so inspiring. And 4:09 - tells a lot.
iamjessu 1 year ago

wow! very interesting.
I loved most of the shots :)
Tarek Alfaraj 1 year ago

very nice job
Dario Caamaño 1 year ago

Amazing shots!
Jason Ho 1 year ago

I like your use of sillhouettes.
Amr Abdelhadi 1 year ago

Poetry!
jeswanth J 1 year ago

Every Millisecond is a masterpiece , Spectacular! Spectacular!
Nick Pes 1 year ago

Wow. Awesome.
Florin Cojoc 1 year ago

great work, loved it
UDAYA SHANKAR 1 year ago

Awesome...........i Love ur Shot Framing
Harald Schröder 1 year ago

wonderful picture
Gary Hopper 1 year ago

Totally inspirational, great effort!
Vajra 1 year ago

Great color!
Reminds me of Egypt.
Javier de Gregorio 1 year ago

Spectacular...
MySurfari Surf Travel 1 year ago

what type of stabilizing rig did you use for the hand-held shots? Do you use a viewfinder too?
Ruslan Fedotow 1 year ago

unfortunately I have no money for equipment. I was shooting with only two lenses.
MySurfari Surf Travel 1 year ago

it came out so smooth, keep up the amazing work
Rob Koers 1 year ago

Really great looks and music. Compliments.
Joaquín Guzmán 1 year ago

This is really beautiful.

Good bye!
ram 1 year ago

so nice, especially the kid at the end.
aydin mevsim 1 year ago

Amazing and breathtaking video Rusian,choice of music was spot on,bravo!!!
Alexander Berezhnoy 1 year ago

soundtrack artist required

sure it's a great video, feels like I've just been there
Ricardo Infame 1 year ago

Impressive photography.
Brainiac NYC 1 year ago

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Omar Abbas 1 year ago

beautifully shot and edited
aurelia aurita 1 year ago

Makes me want to be a cinema/photographer, and travel around the world.
Farid Almani 1 year ago

just gr8, fantastic shots of Syria!
Os Galindo 1 year ago

Amazing. Audio fits in perfectly with footage and editing.

How did you keep your camera steady throughout every shot?
Rafal Pogo 1 year ago

why there are no women in this movie? is this normal in Syria? i mean at the out side, on the streets... The film is great anyway :)
Michele Johnson 1 year ago

lots of very poetic shots Ruslan - you have a great eye. Thanks for the insight into Syria - and Rafal's question is a good one - we did see a woman making a flat bread over a stone but I can't remember any others. Is is culturally inappropriate to film women? or are they just not so visible, just not in the public eye?
Ruslan Fedotow 1 year ago

Thanks. Most women do not see the person they closed it. Men are not happy when I'm shooting women in the street.
Chapin Waite 1 year ago

The video quality is stunning. your 50mm 1.8, does it have IS on it (and who makes it)? also what did you set ISO to? man, the quality of this video absolutely blows me away! (I ask about lenses because I'm looking into buying a prime 50mm but cant decide what to get). Anyone have any suggestions?
Ruslan Fedotow 1 year ago

Recently I was shooting for carl zeiss 50mm 1.4 lens is amazing.
Jaime Agüero 1 year ago

Muy bueno si señor!!!!
//Slash// 1 year ago

Simply thank you for those 5 minutes!
gabriel borda 1 year ago

sweet
great work
supreetstation 1 year ago

Simply b e a u t i f u l
Tammam Hamza 1 year ago

Yes sure.. camels, desert and old city.. typical Oriental look. This is Syria ?? Do some research please.
Tammam Hamza 1 year ago

listen asshole ! you have rabbits out there and one big Lukachenko so keep quiet !! drugimi slovami " zokroi past'"
Nehal Hussein 1 year ago

it is REALLY beautiful and looks so pure, your sense of choosing shoots is really great.
if i may ask the type of camera used?
Aman Singh 1 year ago

that was beyond gorgeous
jane katharina di Renzo 1 year ago

beautiful!
Angel De Franganillo 1 year ago

amazing
Muhammad Almubarak 1 year ago

Enjoyed it to the max. Makes me wanna go to Syria again. Thank you for making this.
Thushan Amarasiriwardena 1 year ago

Stunning.
Michel Bosch 1 year ago

Amazing. The colors, framing just everything.. Thank you Ruslan!!