Uploads from Hans Hoffnung, tagged 500d

Lightform picture style

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:18:19 -0700

Lightform picture style
Image by Simon Brazzola

Shot with a 5DMKII loaded with the LightForm Picture Style,
The Lightform picture style is compatible with all EOS cameras.

More infos about the Lightform Picture Style at www.cineplus.ch
Vimeo LightForm Group: vimeo.com/groups/lightform

Lightform Features at a glance:

RELIGHT Enhanced Dynamic Range
Canon cameras have plenty of precious data hidden in the highlights.
The only way to deploy it is to edit RAW photos or via a picture style that is able to take advantage of it.
Lightform enhances the sensor's dynamic range by bringing down that useful data to a more visible range, before compression.
As result, you get advantage of the full latitude of the sensor with a more faithful to reality dynamic range and more detail in the image upper range.

RESKIN
Yellow, orange and red spots in the highlights, unnaturally saturated skin tones..
Those are all problems that will make you crazy when you will try to eliminate them in post.
Again, unless you edit the RAW photos, they will be printed to file and stay there to create problems.
Lightform does all the work before compression, to deliver the best, most gorgeous skin tones out of the box. We tested it on models of all races, and in dark to bright conditions.
True Colors that can let you spare hours of color correction.

REGRADE
Color grading is all about headroom.
Thanks to the Lightform's headroom feature, you can, in post, rise the video level without destroying the highlights, and you can adjust the balance without overdriving colors.
Of course Lightform can be used with -4 contrast for a greater latitude or at 0 contrast for a balanced, final look out of the box. The headroom is always present at all contrast settings.

CINEMA Option
As asked by many users, there must be a neutral version. So Lightform comes in 2 flavours:
Lightform C (Cinema)
with an enhanced version of the highly successful look of the Cineplus CINEMA Picture Style.
Lightform N
with neutral, untouched colors, for those who want full control of the image in post production.

Olya

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:47:48 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

Shot with the Lightform picture style for Canon EOS cameras
Color graded in After Effects
(those are video grabs)

More infos about the Lightform Picture Style at www.cineplus.ch
Vimeo LightForm Group: vimeo.com/groups/lightform

Lightform Features at a glance:

RELIGHT Enhanced Dynamic Range
Canon cameras have plenty of precious data hidden in the highlights.
The only way to deploy it is to edit RAW photos or via a picture style that is able to take advantage of it.
Lightform enhances the sensor's dynamic range by bringing down that useful data to a more visible range, before compression.
As result, you get advantage of the full latitude of the sensor with a more faithful to reality dynamic range and more detail in the image upper range.

RESKIN
Yellow, orange and red spots in the highlights, unnaturally saturated skin tones..
Those are all problems that will make you crazy when you will try to eliminate them in post.
Again, unless you edit the RAW photos, they will be printed to file and stay there to create problems.
Lightform does all the work before compression, to deliver the best, most gorgeous skin tones out of the box. We tested it on models of all races, and in dark to bright conditions.
True Colors that can let you spare hours of color correction.

REGRADE
Color grading is all about headroom.
Thanks to the Lightform's headroom feature, you can, in post, rise the video level without destroying the highlights, and you can adjust the balance without overdriving colors.
Of course Lightform can be used with -4 contrast for a greater latitude or at 0 contrast for a balanced, final look out of the box. The headroom is always present at all contrast settings.

CINEMA Option
As asked by many users, there must be a neutral version. So Lightform comes in 2 flavours:
Lightform C (Cinema)
with an enhanced version of the highly successful look of the Cineplus CINEMA Picture Style.
Lightform N
with neutral, untouched colors, for those who want full control of the image in post production.

Lightform Picture Style

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:44:02 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

The Lightform Picture Style, loaded into the EOS Camera, prepares the video for an easy color grading workflow.
Slightly graded image, taken with the Lightform Picture Style
www.cineplus.ch

Lens: Helios 44 2 58mm (1971)

LightForm VS Cinestyle

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:37:38 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

Cinestyle, which i regard as the best Picture Style to date, doesn't handle highlights and the transition to clip as smoothly as Lightform.The effect is clearly visible in the upper corners.

More infos at www.cineplus.ch
www.lightformpicturestyle.com

2q

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:39 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

S-LUT's curves are for RAW people...
Canon's are gorgeous out of the box!

This test features a non color graded sequence, followed by the same sequence, with color correction.
The CINEMA PS, doesn't NEED CC, but LIKES it.

As the CINEMA Picture Style doesn't need any LUT or adjustments, you can save days of color correction by starting with a gorgeous look.
If you want more, or you want your own look, you can color correct it and achieve great results.

Flat styles use only the mid portion of the RGB gamma, losing data all the way. This is NOT RAW. Don't fool yourself mimicking RAW users. It's another world,.. that needs tons of CC days and data storage, and huge budgets.

A review by Philip Bloom
philipbloom.net/2011/09/18/canon-dslrs-my-favorite-pictur...

The CINEMA Picture Style is online.
Go here:
www.cineplus.ch/cinema.html

FIRST TEST HERE:
vimeo.com/28550676

Vimeo CINEMA Picture Style Group
vimeo.com/groups/106463/videos

Instructions on how to upload the CINEMA Picture Style on the Canon camera via EOS Utility
www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/eos-utility.html

Features:

- Best perceived latitude ever on a 5d, but with a nice contrasty image
Explanation:
Latitude won't change with any picture style, what changes is that LCD tv' s render everything above RGB 236 as white or anyway too bright to not consider it white.
So the "best latitude ever" is meant for the final user who will enjoy all highlights details because this preset shifts all those details in a lower, visible range.
But the curve is made to lower the highlights and boosting the area just below making the image contrasty even if whites are not whites
- Keeps details on shadows and highlights while remaining quite contrasted.
- Vivid colors on low saturated areas, no greysh or monochromatic cast
- Analog like colors on high saturated areas
- Very sharp image,
- Film colorimetry
- Doesn't need color grading
- Best usage of the 8 bit codec

The new CINEMA Picture Style was developed analyzing and replicating a film stock colorimetry, and combined with a digital look and feel of high end digital cameras.

Third test with the amazing CINEMA Picture Style.
Lights:
-rim light: Lupo bank
-key light: a freesbee reflector
-ambient light: available lights in the room.
Lenses: Nikkor AIS 35mm, 85mm, Praktica 58mm

Edited in Final Cut Pro, timeline exported via XML into After Effects, and exported to Animation. H264 derived by the Animation Master.

5q

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:26:06 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

Lory

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:52 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

This test features a non color graded sequence, followed by the same sequence, with color correction.
The CINEMA PS, doesn't NEED CC, but LIKES it.

As the CINEMA Picture Style doesn't need any LUT or adjustments, you can save days of color correction by starting with a gorgeous look.
If you want more, or you want your own look, you can color correct it and achieve great results.

Flat styles use only the mid portion of the RGB gamma, losing data all the way. This is NOT RAW. Don't fool yourself mimicking RAW users. It's another world,.. that needs tons of CC days and data storage, and huge budgets.

A review by Philip Bloom
philipbloom.net/2011/09/18/canon-dslrs-my-favorite-pictur...

The CINEMA Picture Style is online.
Go here:
www.cineplus.ch/cinema.html

FIRST TEST HERE:
vimeo.com/28550676

Vimeo CINEMA Picture Style Group
vimeo.com/groups/106463/videos

Instructions on how to upload the CINEMA Picture Style on the Canon camera via EOS Utility
www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/eos-utility.html

Features:

- Best perceived latitude ever on a 5d, but with a nice contrasty image
Explanation:
Latitude won't change with any picture style, what changes is that LCD tv' s render everything above RGB 236 as white or anyway too bright to not consider it white.
So the "best latitude ever" is meant for the final user who will enjoy all highlights details because this preset shifts all those details in a lower, visible range.
But the curve is made to lower the highlights and boosting the area just below making the image contrasty even if whites are not whites
- Keeps details on shadows and highlights while remaining quite contrasted.
- Vivid colors on low saturated areas, no greysh or monochromatic cast
- Analog like colors on high saturated areas
- Very sharp image,
- Film colorimetry
- Doesn't need color grading
- Best usage of the 8 bit codec

The new CINEMA Picture Style was developed analyzing and replicating a film stock colorimetry, and combined with a digital look and feel of high end digital cameras.

Third test with the amazing CINEMA Picture Style.
Lights:
-rim light: Lupo bank
-key light: a freesbee reflector
-ambient light: available lights in the room.
Lenses: Nikkor AIS 35mm, 85mm, Praktica 58mm

Edited in Final Cut Pro, timeline exported via XML into After Effects, and exported to Animation. H264 derived by the Animation Master.

1a

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:45 -0700

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2a

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:26:12 -0700

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5a

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:25 -0700

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4a

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:32 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

Cinema picture style

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:19 -0700

Hans Hoffnung posted a photo:

The CINEMA PS, doesn't NEED CC, but LIKES it.

As the CINEMA Picture Style doesn't need any LUT or adjustments, you can save days of color correction by starting with a gorgeous look.
If you want more, or you want your own look, you can color correct it and achieve great results.

Flat styles use only the mid portion of the RGB gamma, losing data all the way. This is NOT RAW. Don't fool yourself mimicking RAW users. It's another world,.. that needs tons of CC days and data storage, and huge budgets.

A review by Philip Bloom
philipbloom.net/2011/09/18/canon-dslrs-my-favorite-pictur...

The CINEMA Picture Style is online.
Go here:
www.cineplus.ch/cinema.html

FIRST TEST HERE:
vimeo.com/28550676

Vimeo CINEMA Picture Style Group
vimeo.com/groups/106463/videos

Instructions on how to upload the CINEMA Picture Style on the Canon camera via EOS Utility
www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/eos-utility.html

Features:

- Best perceived latitude ever on a 5d, but with a nice contrasty image
Explanation:
Latitude won't change with any picture style, what changes is that LCD tv' s render everything above RGB 236 as white or anyway too bright to not consider it white.
So the "best latitude ever" is meant for the final user who will enjoy all highlights details because this preset shifts all those details in a lower, visible range.
But the curve is made to lower the highlights and boosting the area just below making the image contrasty even if whites are not whites
- Keeps details on shadows and highlights while remaining quite contrasted.
- Vivid colors on low saturated areas, no greysh or monochromatic cast
- Analog like colors on high saturated areas
- Very sharp image,
- Film colorimetry
- Doesn't need color grading
- Best usage of the 8 bit codec

The new CINEMA Picture Style was developed analyzing and replicating a film stock colorimetry, and combined with a digital look and feel of high end digital cameras.

Third test with the amazing CINEMA Picture Style.
Lights:
-rim light: Lupo bank
-key light: a freesbee reflector
-ambient light: available lights in the room.
Lenses: Nikkor AIS 35mm, 85mm, Praktica 58mm

Edited in Final Cut Pro, timeline exported via XML into After Effects, and exported to Animation. H264 derived by the Animation Master.

3q

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:25:59 -0700

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3a

nobody@flickr.com (Hans Hoffnung) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:26:18 -0700

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