Size Matters, A Short Film About Long Lenses
Size Matters, A Short Film About Long Lenses, A short film by Darius Stevens Wilhere
Back in November of last year, my friends and I made a cute little short film with a wink to an inside joke photographers have been making reference to for decades.
I had the idea for this almost a year earlier after seeing an article on B&Hs website about their 1200mm Canon lens: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/bh-photographic-journey-legendary-canon-ef-1200mm-lens
Talk about lens envy. Anyways, originally my idea was to go to Central Park in New York and shoot this duel between two photographers gradually increasing the size of their lens until it wound up with one of them in an observatory.
I wasn't able to pull all of that together, so when Kelvin and I sat down and revisited the concept we were lucky enough to wind up with a pre-release model of the Canon C300 MarkII and a couple of their Cinema Lenses and then put together this short shot after sunset when the city lights came up to be able to show how good at low light the C300 Mark II was.
It's an enjoyable short that exploded on imgur thanks to Kelvin, Allison and Serge's fun performances.
We shot with a bunch of vintage glass we found in a second hand store but also shot with these lenses which you might recognize in the short:
Canon Compact Cinema Zoom 15.5-47mm
Canon Compact Cinema Zoom 30 - 105mm
It was a blast shooting and if you want to see some of how the shots were prior to grading so you can get a sense of how dark it was check out the C300 Mark II review Part 4 here.
Size Matters, A Short Film About Long Lenses, A short film by Darius Stevens Wilhere
