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Shot on the Sony EX3 and Letus Ultimate in Rhyolite, Nevada.

Music is by Ennio Morricone from "Once Upon A Time in the West"

Vignettes and grade done of course with Magic Bullet Looks.

Making of coming soon....

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Nick Keating 6 months ago

Philip, incredible job. The imagery in this piece is stunning. What lens('s) did you shoot with on the Letus?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Thanks Nick. The usual culprits. 17-35mm nikon f2.8 zoom. Sigma f1.8 20mm. zeiss 100mm f2 macro, zeiss 85mm f1.4 and the 80-200mm f2.8 nikon zoom.

Nice to shoot something beautiful after all my mucking around with the video blogs. Fun as they are, my love is this sort of film making.
Nick Keating 6 months ago

Haha I hear ya on that.
Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA 6 months ago

You b_stard, I wanted to go there with you and do this shoot! I don't know how you can shoot, edit and grade these things so fast. Whatever, it's f--king great.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

sorry sir. But we will make gold soon together!
Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA 6 months ago

Well put, considering Rhyolite was a gold rush town.
Jake Carpenter 6 months ago

Love the colors! Did you use a dutch head for some of those shots?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

nah, just off balance head.
Samu Ainesmaa 6 months ago

Stellar as usual, Mr. Bloom. Very well done indeed.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks Samu
Jon Coy 6 months ago

Excellent color work, as usual. :35 is my favorite composition. The fantastic DR you kept, in conjunction with matching tones/exposure makes it feel like a painting. Huge fan of people making use of shadows in time lapses, so points there! I'm apprehensive about the vignetting though. I guess it's not my taste. Regardless, fantastic compositions, colors, and pace.

(Glad you kept the Morricone track!)
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Cheers Jon, it was your comment that made me keep it. I went with the strong vignette to emphasize the old feel to it.
Jon Coy 6 months ago

It certainly did embody an aged sentiment. It felt more natural to me the second time (I was really tired and a wee bit cranky when I saw it the first time). Once again, great work as always.
Tom Guilmette 6 months ago

phil!
this is tom guilmette from tom guilmette dot com...

you make a madman like myself look "lazy" by pumping out all this stuff. nicely done.

what the hell did you do to pass the time with joe during those timelapses? did joe drop some of his lunch in the desert?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

tomguilmette.com?! wow. Isn't it like 3 am there?!

Joe went off with the 5dmk2 and i just sat with my top off in the sun giving myself skin cancer. I did a fine job!
Keith Gallagher 6 months ago

Looks beautiful.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Thanks v much Keith
Joe Kamimura 6 months ago

Either I'm highly influenced off your blog or this short feels like The Fall. Amazing work!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Doesn't hold a candle to The Fall but love the comparison...
Colin Cabalka 6 months ago

hahahaha,
i was thinking the same thing as steve,
goto NAB, 4 blog episodes, and have the time to do this too..
love the stuff as always

ps.. do you use a good PL filter? the sky is very well exposed.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

No filters Colin! The joy of Magic Bullet Looks.
DURBAN 6 months ago

Plus he got married; I don’t know how he finds the time…
Mark Rigler 6 months ago

nice one
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks Mark
Christal G! 6 months ago

Wow, yeah i tried keeping up but there's no way, you are a machine, between NABing, tweetering, emailing, shooting, blogging, editing, exporting, grading, and uploading you still found time to get married and flood a room? all in one week, im tired just thinking about it.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

you missed out a few things there Christal but I can't talk about those ;-)

Still got another blog to edit from my road trip too and did a half hour interview with macvideo.tv as well which should be online soon. Oh and then there is a proper 10 minute NAB round up coming on Monday!
Emanuele Caruso 6 months ago

Very good job Philip!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cheers Emanuele
amankerstudio 6 months ago

it's fantastic video as usually
great job my master Mr. Bloom....:)
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks again for watching my stuff@@
Two99Media 6 months ago

Wow, awesome shots. Just....awesome! Great visual tour of a wonderful place. L O V E the colours!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks!
Project Overseer Productions 6 months ago

Superb videography and editing as well as use of magic bullet looks. love the wind sound you've added too, and the music of course which is perfect for this creative visual.

Beautiful!

Chris.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks Chris!
Regis Hervagault 6 months ago

outstanding !!!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cheers Regis!
Paul Davis 6 months ago

This is so well shot! Lovely.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

appreciate it Paul
Old Dead Eye 6 months ago

Was the panning shot at 1:30 done without the Letus? I've only had my Letus for a few weeks but I've noticed whenever I pan with my Letus, I get an odd stuttery effect.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

yep. all done with Letus. What shutter speed are you shooting at? The Letus won't add stutter, the camera might...
Old Dead Eye 6 months ago

I've tried a lot of different shutter speeds and frame rates, even turned the shutter off, but it's still present.It tends to be worse on very slow pans. I've also noticed that if I pan lets say, left , it'll quickly jump right for a frame or two before going the correct way.Very strange.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

turn steadyshot off!!!
Old Dead Eye 6 months ago

Thanks!
Londonmark Films 6 months ago

Phil, what a great location...! grading is very nice Mark
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cheers Mark. Was a bit sparse compared to Dungeness though
Londonmark Films 6 months ago

I'll say it....I should have come to NAB!
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Philip Bloom 6 months ago

yup, it was awsome and a terrific place to meet people.
Joseph Stunzi, IENCE 6 months ago

HEY! That place looks familiar!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

the road trip is now online at my personal blog site! philipbloomblog.wordpress.com/
Donny Romanazzi 6 months ago

Great colours! and great music...
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cheers!
Stephen Lewis 6 months ago

Superb shots, they have such a great atmosphere about them!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cool place to shoot Stephen
[ PIXEL VIKING ] 6 months ago

Loved the fact that there were no people in front of the camera this time :) Great place...
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

kept it clean!
olaf h. ☞ nadu 6 months ago

a really nice one, luv it! tonality fits perfectly.
i appreciate the consistent coloration with mbl in your work.
thanx for sharing your gorgeous work in the public art group.
cheers
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks Olaf
Freddy Antonio Zapata 6 months ago

Very nice indeed. Your videos are probably the most I enjoy here on Vimeo. Hearted, like always... ;-)
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Very kind Freddy
aimenyagami 6 months ago

very very nice .
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks!
cameron getty 6 months ago

That was... spectacular.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

cheers!
Marq Feist 6 months ago

As always, wonderful work! The color and vignette really capture the atmosphere.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

yes the grade helped a lot
Kevyn Bashore 6 months ago

Phil: As always, exquisite interpretation through your Artist's eye...

Two questions:
1. Is Magic Bullet Look really that much better than FCP's Color and worth the extra software and cost? Judging by your work, it appears so, but just wondered what your thoughts were on that?

2. I was told last year when I bought the Letus Extreme that I couldn't use zoom lenses on on it, but you appear to be using at least two zoom lenses. And they appear to be working just fine for you. Is that so?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

It's much easier to use Kevyn..
You can you use fast f2.8 constant zooms no problem with extreme.
Radu Serbanescu 6 months ago

Beautiful sky colors... :)
Florent 6 months ago

Pretty images, amazing ambiance..., and excellent music from the master Ennio Morricone. Nice job !
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

love Morricone
Tito Sacchi 6 months ago

Love these sort of things Phil. Everything so quick out together but so thought-trough. Makes me feel good!!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Thanks Tito
Justin Ho 6 months ago

Spectacular
Nathaniel Hansen 6 months ago

wonderful. That swaying sign at the start sort of blew my mind. I wish my shooting schedule would have allowed us to hook up at NAB. Next year ;)
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

yeah missed you man!
Jan van der Meer 6 months ago

Love it Phil! But didnt u melt there?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

we both got VERY burnt that day
Matt White 6 months ago

Wow! Phil, I think this is my favorite of your work that I have seen thus far! The location was incredible, the time lapse shadows are amazing! Excellent composition!

I recently shot my first documentary and I did some time lapse, I drove out in to a field, set up shop and listened to an audio book for while...ha ha, no desert sun just an annoying amount of wind!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

thanks Matt
Aaron Morrell 6 months ago

Well, as was expected, you truly captured the atmosphere! Really liked the climbing shadows and the background sound of warm wind.

Thanks for taking us with you on your trip!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Thanks Aaron!
Kenny Mosher 6 months ago

I love the video and Ennio M. is a genius
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

agreed!
Making Crackers 6 months ago

great shots...wow!
►Alex Leahu◄ 6 months ago

that was awesome, it gave me a different kind of feeling inside!
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

Thanks ALex
blatherskyte 6 months ago

fantastic job and a spot on choice of music. that's one of my favorite soundtracks.
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

from a great movie
Spindrift Productions 6 months ago

that was absolutely amazing! fantastic job on that, and thanks for pushing me over the line to go with the ex-3 over the hvx-200. Cheers!
Kaushik 6 months ago

Stunning!
Anthony 6 months ago

Nice.

I'm interested in your answer to Kevyn's Question..

Two questions:
1. Is Magic Bullet Look really that much better than FCP's Color and worth the extra software and cost? Judging by your work, it appears so, but just wondered what your thoughts were on that?

2. I was told last year when I bought the Letus Extreme that I couldn't use zoom lenses on on it, but you appear to be using at least two zoom lenses. And they appear to be working just fine for you. Is that so?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

yes it is. it's intuitive, powerful and FAST. I cut and graded this short in an hour.

Zooms are fine as long as they are FAST!! They need to be constant f2.8 apertures like mine. Slow f4-f5.6 are useless with adaptors.
Thomas Ciaburri 6 months ago

Amazing... as per usual
Vadim Galaktionov 6 months ago

YEaaaah! It's amazing! Unreal image!!!! Respect Philip!!!!!!!!11oneone
Dan Valentine 6 months ago

Phil, as usual, beautiful work. My favorite now I reckon.

2 questions please?

1. What makeup is your computer, because I can't get MBL to work fast enough on my Pentium Duo 3 Ghz, so I don't even bother with it currently.

and

2. I watched it with HD off and the image was crystal clear and spectacular, how the heck did you render it?
Philip Bloom 6 months ago

am a Mac man Don...just use mp4 h264 compression at about 9000kbps
The Funky Monkey 6 months ago

Superb, as expected!
Lighbulb Media 6 months ago

everyone seems to love magic bullet...I'm wondering if it is in the same class as After Effects? If it is, how does it compare?
Joseph Stunzi, IENCE 6 months ago

different tools for different fools mate!
(I thought it was clever!)

try the free trial and you'll see what makes Magic Bullet Looks different from typical color correction.
Lighbulb Media 6 months ago

haha, very clever..I'll have to check it out..thanks!