![]() ![]() This is another example of our camera being set at 7000 deg. We learned not to use the Vision LUT when color correcting digital footage. We soon understood that with this fragile color space you had to move the knobs very delicately. When Andrew would turn the knobs to make a change, the color would shift radically. Andrew Huebscher, the colorist at Bandito was earning and learning as we dealt with this very compressed Codec for the first time. We started with a LUT (lookup table) that gives you the look and feel of Kodak Vision print stock in the digital world and the Codec just fell apart. When we began the color correction process, we quickly realized a new grading process was necessary. So, the style and color that I had done on Terminator Salvation would be the consistent thread throughout the project. I wanted the look and feel of the webisodes to feel like a prequel to the film. ![]() They would release one a week leading up to the opening date of Terminator: Salvation. McG asked me to be the Director/Cameraman for these alternative marketing shorts that were going on the internet. (I have a big backyard)įirst of all this is a game trail camera capture from last summer.My first experience with the 5D DI color correction was for the Terminator webisodes produced by the Bandito Brothers through Wonderland Sound and Vision. I have several 360 degree cameras that sense all around them for heat movement. I set this up on a landing under a tree to take pictures about 90 degrees to this. The heat of the Golden Warbler’s body triggered the camera and caught in freeze frame the turtle race ongoing on the log behind the grass curtain. The Male Warbler with Chestnut colored patches on his chest is not a particularly common bird up here. I caught this one several times with this camera though. I run a network of 29 game trail cameras spring through the early winter months. I have quite a few to gather after the winter isolation. Most will be out of batteries for various reasons. That is a bunch of Western Painted Turtles sunning. This year I’m walking through there with a machete before I plant that camera. The grass is obfuscating to the turtles but I will get them next time lolol. I saw the first Pronghorn on ranch for the spring this evening on the way to this pond. I took images of an early arrival Great Blue Heron this evening that will take a week to publish on line. A week is my minimum turn around generally these days. The time of same day “take the image” and “post the images’ has long since passed lololol. Title: Warbler and Turtles Sunning COPY IMAGE CODE Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands. These guys are sandpipers with obscenely long bills. Since the male and female Curlews look pretty much alike with minor differences in the bill I’m not qualified to call. What I like about these guys is that they are grasshopper eating machines in the summer. They over winters in wetland marshes and other shore line estuaries. It couldn’t get much further away from the ocean as we are only a few hundred miles away from the geographic center of North America. These guys are our largest shore bird in North America. They are fussy birds if you come into their domain. Male displays over their nesting territory are impressive with loud ringing callsThey will circle about making lots of fuss trying to lead you away from the nest. I find them driving along the two track trails as I’m on the flats below the higher ridges. Mostly a flat field grassy nesting bird rather than preferring a hillside with a view as I’ve seen them. This was a late spring snow storm from the spring of 2019. Robins, Meadowlarks and Curlews were wading knee deep in the white stuff. Much to their collective dismay I’m sure. I understand that across their range, the numbers of this amusing bird are dropping with the reduction in natural grass land turned to mono-crop agricultural uses. They of course use wild non – tilled prairie to nest and feed during the summer months. A classic case of reduce the habitat and reduce the numbers. ![]()
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