Catching Time - Tanya Fryer (vertical sensor anamorphic with Isco Ultra Star)

[@z35films]

I’m so inspired by this. Now I have to figure out how to shoot vertical anamorphic haha. Thanks Janis

[@a5pictures]

This looks amazing. Great work here. May have to try this with my Isco Red

[@fishingreelpictures]

Amazing!!! From the story to the look

[@janisbrod]

Thank you! :)

[@1109films]

Wow, this is absolutely beautiful. Suh a unique look. I've been wanting to give vertical anamorphic a try once I figure out a monitor method. Very inspiring piece!

[@janisbrod]

ahh thank you so much!

[@drrrw]

Wonderful work and amazing script.

[@mikechen121]

This is truly something else. The sentiments conveyed through this film reminds me of "At Eternity's Gate", a film about Van Gogh's last years. The light and colors in that film are their own language, in this, too.

[@janisbrod]

Thank you, I'll have to give it a watch! :)

[@vedroelcitra]

This is so so so beautiful!

[@janisbrod]

Thank you!

[@martinburt9763]

Really beautiful images, Janis. Great film! Colours and light roll-off just amazing. Really high quality rendition, somehow quite sharp without looking sharp, if that makes sense. I’m eagerly awaiting delivery of my first Isco and hoping the right projects crop up for it. I was wondering about your set-up, did you use a separate taking lens or use the back end? What focusing route did you go down? Thanks for the timely inspiration. Best wishes Martin

[@janisbrod]

Thank you Martin! The Helios 50mm 1.8 was my taking lens and the Rectilux HCDNA was used for focus. Honestly I'd never even consider going double-focus, it's just not practical at all. And the original taking lens of the Isco neither has a mount nor an aperture, so that's not really practical either. Have fun going down the DIY anamorphic rabbit hole, it's quite the journey! :)

[@PLArseneau]

Ahhh dude this is stunning. Love the 4:3 anamorphic look.

[@janisbrod]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@Vibhor_Yadav]

This was beautiful!

[@janisbrod]

@@Vibhor_Yadav thank you! ☺️

[@RyanPiwarski]

beautifully shot 😍

[@charlesjohngordon]

This is so beautiful

[@Thanasakias]

This is beautiful!

[@CraftedWaffle]

So beautiful. Keep coming back to this for inspiration. So you have the camera mounted vertically with the lens attached normally and is the Isco mounted “correctly” or are you rotating it as well?

[@janisbrod]

Thanks! Yeah exactly, only the camera is vertical. The Isco stays the "normal" way.

[@bryanoliveira9513]

the frame is HUGE

[@joshsmukal]

Absolutely beautiful film. I'm curious what your color/film emulation approach was for this. Was it Resolve + Dehancer or something else?

[@janisbrod]

Thank you! :) exactly, it was graded in Resolve with Dehancer.

[@TavianOrd]

truely incredible

[@janisbrod]

Thank you!

[@TavianOrd]

@@janisbrod When you say vertical have you rotated the isco 90 degrees? and if so how are you still getting horizontal flares such as at 0:48?

[@janisbrod]

​@@TavianOrd No, just the camera is vertical. The Isco is mounted on the rods in a normal horizontal way. :)

[@TavianOrd]

@@janisbrod oh wow that's so interesting

[@janisbrod]

​@@TavianOrd would have been easier with a box-style camera though... For example I couldn't use my second lens support because the lens was just too far above the rods due to the design of the S1H. And the whole handling was a bit awkward - but it was fine since everything was shot on a tripod.

[@tyshchenkoyevhen]

Is it 3.5k cropped? What codec did you use?

[@janisbrod]

It's 4k anamorphic mode (4:3) - All-Intra 4:2:2

[@tyshchenkoyevhen]

@@janisbrod Do you know if getting 4:4:4 on S1H with an external monitor is possible?

[@janisbrod]

@@tyshchenkoyevhen You can record BRAW or ProRes RAW with an external recorder, which is essentially 4:4:4 afaik. But then again, those Blackmagic and Atomos monitors/recorders don't have good desqueezing and cropping abilities, especially for a special format like this.

[@markrobinson8254]

looks like heavy setup. ... is what I take away from this... have to be locked off shots (Wonderful artist though!)

[@janisbrod]

It wasn't that heavy of a setup but back then locked-off shots were definitely the only way to do this because there was no way to properly monitor it and I had to look at a squeezed image on the internal camera display. Now I have an AJA ROI that can rotate the image before going into an external monitor. That results in a much bigger and heavier rig but I'd be more comfortable shooting handheld with it because I can actually judge the framing and focus much better.

[@markrobinson8254]

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