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by Euan Preston

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Better than sleeping pills. Shot on a Canon EOS 7D DSLR on the bleak moors of County Durham.

Camera was set flat, sharpening, contrast and sat all down, HTP off and then a hefty grade applied in FCP.

Lenses:

Canon 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5
Canon 50mm F/1.8
Olympus Zuiko 24mm F/2.8
Olympus Zuiko 135mm F/2.8

Music: Three Sisters by Hammock

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Alexander Leith 1 month ago

Beautiful!
iamkalaniprince 13 days ago

I agree, very beautiful footage. Reminded me of Gus Van Sants "Gerry".. I have an Olympus Zuiko 50mm and am just stoked on it's image quality etc... In some cases I prefer these older and less contrasty lenses as they let you eeek out as much dynamic range as humanly possible.. Have you found the 24mm to be the same ?
I want to see more !!!

Love and Aloha, iamKP-
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Thanks Alexander!
Myles Thompson 1 month ago

Very tranquil.
ilycelest' 1 month ago

rightfully laid back, a beauty!
Josh Bowman 1 month ago

Great atmosphere you've captured Euan. Love the colours. Is the footage of the windmills slowed down? Or were they that slow?
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Thanks! They're not slowed at all - they're enormous turbines, so look deceptively slow.
Grass Hut media 1 month ago

This is definitely one of my favorite pieces shot with the 7D. Beautiful and hypnotic. Great job.
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Thanks!
Dale Kamp 1 month ago

Very relaxing. Beautiful scenery. Great color grading and pace.

The 7D seems like a 5DMkII in your hands.
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Hehe! Thanks very much.
The Funky Monkey 1 month ago

Nice one! Enjoying your stuff Euan, Was in the new Punch Bowl just a couple of weeks ago!
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Thanks! The Punch Bowl is my local. Always nice to meet local Vimeoans!
j p 1 month ago

Wonderful stuff!
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Ta!
mungkey 1 month ago

Awesome! makes me wanna learn how to create videos like this!

How to use Zuiko lenses on the Canon camera. Are the lenses four thirds and then adapted to Canon mount?
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Thanks! They're the older, OM mount Zuiko lenses. I picked up an adapter from eBay for about £20.
mungkey 30 days ago

Thanks man! keep them awesome vids comin.
Rafal "MoVeR" Machelski 1 month ago

your wideo is so calmness. places on wideo are beautiful. only water looks dirty ;)
Euan Preston 1 month ago

Heh! Thanks. The water is that colour because of the iron in the soil!
Drew Maw 1 month ago

Do you ever have any problems with that adapter? Can you link the brand of adapter you bought? Do they have adapters for Nikon lenses too?
Euan Preston 1 month ago

It was a cheap Chinese import - I couldn't tell you the brand or the seller as I bought it a couple of years ago. However they're abundantly available and yes, you can get Nikon ones too. Check out cinema5d.com as there are a couple of discussions about adapters.
Ashley Harrison 30 days ago

Some really beautiful shots Euan.
Love Story Media 30 days ago

I was totally drifting off until that damn car whizzed past.

Nice vid. A bit noisy despite ample light, I've noticed this with the 5D as well. Doesn't matter how fast the lens or how low the ISO is. Some funky processing must be causing that.
Euan Preston 30 days ago

You'd be surprised; the noisier shots were taken at iso 3200 in very low light - so dark I couldn't see the spirit level on the top of my tripod. What looks like noise in the very detailed daylight shots is actually aliasing and some compression artefacts.
Love Story Media 30 days ago

I notice the artifacts, but also noise at ISO 160. This is on L lenses with a lot of light, in scenes with little detail. Have you experienced this? It's driving me nuts, as I've seen 5D/7D footage that didn't seem to have ANY noise...
Euan Preston 29 days ago

I think it depends on the shot; how much detail, contrast, DoF etc. Shots like the thistle in the video above tend to be clean whereas I've noticed a lot more noise in wide shots with deep DoF. It's all about the compression I reckon.
Nick Scribner 30 days ago

cool.
Matthew Brown 30 days ago

Very peaceful and SOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful man.
Geoff Harrison 30 days ago

Terrific stuff!! My sort of country Euan. Just getting to grips with my 5D MkII.
Zack 29 days ago

very nice. thanks for not abusing the rack focus like all the other scenic videos. great great shots
Blake Whitman 29 days ago

some of those last shots are phenomenal.
Euan Preston 29 days ago

Thanks Blake!
Chase O. 29 days ago

Amazing. I want to be there.

By the way, I'd love to see a couple "before" shots to see how you achieved some of these colors from the raw footage.
Euan Preston 29 days ago

Thanks! There's very little correction on the sunset shots, just altered the gamma curve to add some punch. The sky really did turn blood red!

The heavier grade is on the daylight shots which had much more curves adjustment and the blacks pushed into blue.
David Heron 29 days ago

Hi Euan, very nice. I'm just trying to work out where in the County this is. I'm born and bred in Durham but living in North Lancs now. Are you up near Stanhope or Consett way?
Loved the colour grading as well.
Euan Preston 29 days ago

thanks! Much of this was shot on the road between Stanhope and Barnard Castle. The turbine shots are from the East side of Tow Law. We've only recently moved to CD, having lived in various parts of the country.
John Rappold 29 days ago

My paternal Grandmother's family lived in County Durhpm before coming to the USA in the late 19th Century. Witton Park and Bishop Auckland.

Thanks for sharing this. Beautiful, and nice to see some of my ancestral homeland
Euan Preston 29 days ago

I live very near to Bishop Auckland! You should come visit County Durham.
Roger Hardcastle 29 days ago

How do the Olympus lenses fit the Canon body?
Euan Preston 29 days ago

I have an EF to OM adapter, bought on eBay for the price of a chip butty.
Eldrik 29 days ago

Great video! It brings back some happy memories of growing up in the area....
Mark Rigler 28 days ago

nice one
christian. 28 days ago

That's an amazing piece of art. I'm normally more a fan of photography, but these captures top everything. Thought about having some parts of the video as individual photographs? Would probably not create the same atmosphere but would look stunning anyways.
Euan Preston 28 days ago

Thanks Christian. I may go shoot some stills up on the moors soon. Extracting stills from 7d video is possible but is very low res compared to 18mp raw images.
christian. 28 days ago

That's cool, would be great if you'd let me know about it somehow then, I'm using flickr.com for that purpose (flickr.com/photos/creative-me/).
Keep it up :)
Nick Ogden 28 days ago

I just moved back to the homeland recently (Ushaw Moor, i presume close to where this was shot, no?) and was struck by the beauty of the place and wanted to do something like this when we had all those great sunsets over August. I'm glad you beat me to it. perfect pace and music, you really just let the raw beauty of the landscape do the rest. Loved it.
Euan Preston 28 days ago

Thanks! Yes, not far from Ushaw Moor. Sadly I spent most of August in London so missed out on the sunsets.
René 28 days ago

Fantastic images these are. I especially like the scene at 00:38 with the barbwire. I just wish I had this kind of talent.

Thanks for posting.
MuratCo 27 days ago

very well shots ~ there's conformity despite the use of quite different lenses. the sunset shots are especially neat. thanks for posting.
Robert Carrier 25 days ago

Very nice.
elnora ebillo 25 days ago

thanks. beautiful...
Andrew Kinnear 24 days ago

Euan, I'm from North Yorkshire, not quite as far north as you, but for a few minutes you took me home. Thank you, beautiful framing, subject and colour.
Euan Preston 23 days ago

Pleased you like it!
Nathan Presley 23 days ago

this looks great! any other details you tell us on color correction besides what you said earlier ?

thanks

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Euan Preston 23 days ago

Not that much to tell really. as I said, done in FCP. Most CC done with the 3 way Colour Corrector, blacks crushed into blue and contrast added as I was filming with a very flat profile. Hope that helps!
Kevin Balmer 23 days ago

Inspiring, Euan! You really set the mood nicely. The pictures are stellar.
Euan Preston 23 days ago

Thanks Kevin!
Alejandro Mares 22 days ago

Very nice work Euan!!! I am thinking of buying the same camera but some people say that the Nikon D300S is better, what do you recommend?
Euan Preston 21 days ago

For video? the 7d without question. As for stills, the following review seems to come out slightly in favour of the 7d: dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos7d/page30.asp
Alejandro Mares 21 days ago

Perfect!! thanks... i really appreciated.
Marco Aslan 20 days ago

Really great. Nice atmosphere.
bob lorrimer 20 days ago

Hi Euan .. Your film has the feel of an epic opening to some grand Cinematic endeavour - glorious work.

I am coming to Darlington tomorrow (Thursday 12:11) to demonstrate HD video films. I have a 7d too.

We will be at the Methodist Chapel, Haughton L e
Skerne, DL1 2DD. 7.30pm

(Mind you it is a big county)
greg ephraim 17 days ago

This is the video that has made my decision to buy a 7d!
David Belusic 14 days ago

this is awesome thank you.
stupid question...are these lenses you're using FDs? EOS?
this looks just as good as stuff i've shot on my HMC150 with 35mm adapter.
Euan Preston 14 days ago

Thanks David!

The lenses are EOS (EF) and Olympus OM Zuiko (with adapter).

Used in the right conditions, the 7d can rival an HD camera with adapter. It is limited to those conditions however, and it'll be some time yet before I part with my HVX200 and Letus.
Shaun Goo 14 days ago

One of the most beautiful videos I've seen... Thank god I switched from youtube.

Awesome music choice too.
Brad McGiveron 13 days ago

Very nice work Euan! Loved the mood, colors and pacing of the edit.
Pedro Méndez 12 days ago

Great job !!!!
What music did you use?
Thanks
Euan Preston 12 days ago

Thanks! The music is "Three Sisters" by Hammock
Mike Flores 6 days ago

Wow, that was really impressive cinematography.
City 17 Productions 5 days ago

good stuff man, nice job