{"id":15,"date":"2016-06-15T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmconvert.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-09-06T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:49:37","slug":"surfing-gailicia-by-alex-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/surfing-gailicia-by-alex-levin\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Gailicia, by Alex Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Surfing Galicia\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/158130244?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexdlevin.com\">Alex Levin<\/a> shot this film in Spain over the winter months. It features some beautiful aerial photography and natural landscapes.<\/p>\n<h2>Alex Levin &#8211; The Interview<\/h2>\n<p>For this project I was going for a cool, natural look. We were out in the early morning for most of the shots and I wanted to keep some of the softness of the morning light but emphasize the beautiful blue, pink, and purple tones that we got from the sky. I didn&#8217;t want to push anything too hard in terms of saturation or contrast, I thought it would distract from the natural beauty of the ocean and the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been interested in filmmaking and photography. When I was younger I spent a lot of time shooting small projects with friends and trying to learn the ins and outs of my parents&#8217; film cameras.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about FilmConvert from a colleague. Philip Knowlton, a really talented director and editor, told me that whenever he has to do his own color work he uses FilmConvert.<\/p>\n<p>I needed an easy to use but ultimately complex tool to get the most from the log footage. FilmConvert gives me the control I want directly within Premiere so I can see the changes I&#8217;m making in real time and adjust as I go along. If my vision changes I can just hop back into the plugin and make those new ideas happen.<\/p>\n<p>Within FilmConvert I generally stick to simple tweaks. I like that they tend to be cooler and push towards green a little bit. Then I make sure to adjust the levels to make sure that my contrast is in check. I generally also turn the film grain down or off entirely. I like the natural noise from the camera to shine through and, at least in this instance, didn&#8217;t feel the need to enhance it. In addition to FilmConvert I always use a curves adjustment layer. I find this gives me a little more fine control to pull color casts or add some subtle color back into the image that I feel I&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Levin shot this film in Spain over the winter months. It features some beautiful aerial photography and natural landscapes. Alex Levin &#8211; The Interview For this project I was going for a cool, natural look. We were out in the early morning for most of the shots and I wanted to keep some of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/surfing-gailicia-by-alex-levin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surfing Gailicia, by Alex Levin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,12,15,7,14,30,13],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-showcase","tag-a7s-mkii","tag-action","tag-aerial","tag-color-grading","tag-landscape","tag-sony","tag-surfing","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}