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Tamara Gabriel – the interview<\/h1>\n
I\u2019ve always had a passion for photography \u00ad ever since I was a kid and was given my first film camera. A few years ago I decided to buy myself a DSLR just to do photography as a hobby and then maybe mix it in with the website development side of things, but then I started playing around with video as well, and immediately fell in love with making films! The stuff I made in the beginning was nothing great, but I was eager to learn everything I could, and I was just happy to shoot anything and get it back to my PC for editing.<\/p>\n
Then I got my DJI Phantom 3 Professional so that I could shoot aerial footage too, which was awesome to see environments from a different perspective. I just wanted to keep filming and put it all together. Then I started to pay more attention to Vimeo, and I\u2019d just sit and watch short \u00adafter \u00adshort for inspiration; I still do \u00ad I can spend hours glued to Vimeo!<\/p>\n
I think the first time I came across FilmConvert was when I was doing a search into how to get that \u2018film\u2019 look that I\u2019d seen in all these shorts I was watching, and I ended up reading one of Philip Bloom\u2019s blog posts where he talks about LUTs and using James Miller\u2019s DELUTs, but he had mentioned something about FilmConvert too. After I finished reading that article I was really excited to start experimenting. So, the first thing I did was buy a set of James Miller\u2019s LUTs and tried them out, and then I got to a point where I wanted some more freedom in the look of my grade, which is when I jumped in and bought FilmConvert as it had so many amazing reviews. I tried it out and I fell in love with it \u00ad it gave my films a whole new look!<\/p>\n
In addition to wanting my footage to look better I stopped shooting films on my Canon 7D Mark II and bought myself the Sony a7s 2, which I think is a fantastic camera. I just wanted more flexibility to be able\u00a0to really push the grade, so shooting in Slog2 gave me the flexibility I needed. Using FilmConvert for that footage gave me the look I was aiming for for this doc, and I wouldn\u2019t have really been able to achieve that with my 7D Mark II.<\/p>\n
I wanted the film to have as natural a look as possible, so I wasn\u2019t going for anything particularly cinematic as such, just a neutral look.<\/p>\n
I used a picture profile of Slog2 SGamut in\u00adcamera, and I used the film stock KD5207 Vis3 set to 35mm Full Frame, and I dropped the grain to 0%. I did experiment with the different film stocks, but in the end\u00a0KD5207 Vis3 was perfect for the look I wanted. Then I did the necessary tweaking of curves, highlights, shadows, and adjusting the whites and blacks. As I cut my videos in Adobe Premiere, I just use the Lumetri panel for those tweaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
https:\/\/vimeo.com\/178014120 Tamara Gabriel is a freelance filmmaker based in the UK, where she focuses on making short documentaries and narrative films. Tamara Gabriel – the interview I\u2019ve always had a passion for photography \u00ad ever since I was a kid and was given my first film camera. A few years ago I decided to buy… Continue reading Living On A Shoestring – Tamara Gabriel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40],"tags":[38,30],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-showcase","category-user-videos","tag-a7s-mkii","tag-sony","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}