Alex Hajdu

MAKING OF Carneval fragrance

Hello and welcome to Carneval behind the scenes blog post.

Production & Preproduction

Production was very tight and low budget, we spent about 150,-EUR in total.
All footage was taken early in the morning(btw. Prague is really magical in the morning:)) because we needed city without too much people.

We started at 4 am and with no assistants, (permissions) the whole production within 3 location changes takes only 4hrs. 

Captured with Canon 5dMKII, Technicolor CineStyle and Canon lenses 2,8/24-70 and 2,8/70-200.
Other equipment we used was tripod, Glidetrack, Marshall monitor and Zacuto rig.

Postproduction

Edited in Final Cut Pro.

There was some work in AFX too:

• color grading
• 2x cleaning location from garbage can
• 1x sky replacementp
• packshot compositing with typo
• titles

Packshot

Tomas help us with 3D model of perfume bottle. 

Music

All music and sound FX was created by talented Sandy Martin. Here is couple of screenshots from his computer.

CREDITS

Man and Woman: Paul&Petra Bielak
Music: Sandy Martin - sandymartinmusic@gmail.com
3D: Tomas Muller - www.temujin.cz
Styling: Lenka Urbanova - lenka.urbanova@seznam.cz

Cinematography, direction and postproduction by noex pictures

Final

Hassleblad Analog Kit for sale

Dear friends of photography,

 I would like to sell almost complete Hasselblad analog kit. It really breaks my heart, but I’m not using it very often nowadays and I think this camera is made to shoot not to relax on shelf.

Everything is perfectly working and it’s in 100% condition (boxes, certificate and serial no. included)

It’s possible to see the equipment personaly in Prague.
Worldwide shipping. 

Please contact me at +420 777 081 235 or by email alexhajdu@me.com

BODY

Body Hasselblad 503CW, chrome

Winder CW + IR Remote

Prism Viewfinder PM45

Waist Level Finder + diopter

Focusing Screen AccuMatte D Split Image

 
MAGAZINES

2x A12 magazine

1x A16 magazine

Polaroid magazine

 
LENSES + ACCESSORIES

Zeiss Distagon CFi 4/50

Zeiss Planar CFE 2,8/80

Zeiss Sonnar 4/150

Compendium ProShade with rings 60mm/70mm

Extension Tube 8mm

Extension Tube 16mm

Cable release

Price: 5.000,-EUR (it’s possible to discuss about the price)

SUMMER DAY

I love lifestyle photography and I begin to experiment with my unique view also in motion pictures. This is only the first no budget piece and I really love it.
Shot on wonderfull sunny day with Canon 5D MKII, edited with Final Cut, all post and color corrections done in After Effects.

CREDITS

Music: don’t know :( Please if you know this track, write me so I can put credit (no commercial use)
Direction, DoP, edit, post: http://www.alexhajdu.sk
Model: Andrejka Vavracova (BIG thanks!)

PORTFOLIO GERMANY

BIG news! Next week I’ve my first shooting in Germany. You can imagine how happy I am :)

I’ve there also meeting with my local agent so I need to bring some printed pieces from recent work. I do some research and in Prague I found only 2 relevant printers - Thalia Picta and 44print. I printed with Thalia Picta before, but this time I decided to try something new. And I’ve to say it was good choice, guys from 44print are very professional and I’m very happy with the result. I printed on Hahnemulle Photo Rag 188 and the colors, sharpness and also price are brilliant.

Thank you guys…

MPEG STREAM CLIP VS 5DTORGB

In my previous post, I noticed I’m using MPEG Streamclip rather than Apple Compressor for converting footage from 5D to Apple ProRes family. User on Cinema5d forum pointed me to another great alternative - 5DtoRGB by Rarevision.

Here is quick test I made with footage converted to Apple ProRes 422. 

•  Seems like there’s a little color shift mainly in reds compared to MPEG Streamclip output.
• + There’s markable better detail quality on files converted with 5DtoRGB. (Take a look at edges of the red handbag
• - missing batch list

NOTE: Please click the title for full post layout and bigger prictures!

QUESTIONS

Dear readers, followers. I just added Questions? feature left to the menu. Do you have any? 

BEHIND iPAD MAGAZINE FASHION STORIES

PRODUCTION

All production and idea was very simple. I did this for the first time in my life so I wanted no big expenses with the project. On set there was only stylist and model in one person, makeup artist and me as DOP, director, asistant. 50,-EUR total with taxi.

Lighting was also very simple. Natural daylight from window supported with one 2kW Helder light thru silk and one backlight(strobe bowens 750+ with pilot light on)

Footage was shot on Canon 5DMKII with lenses 2,8/24-70mm L and 2,8/70-200mm L. Other used equipment was Glidetrack HD, Zacuto Crossfire and Marshall 70LCDxp monitor.

PICTURES

I didn’t make many backstage pictures, because I was busy with shooting, so here is only one followed with some screenshots.

WORKFLOW

• Preparing layouts in Photoshop, later import to Motion
• Selecting good footage
• Converting this clips Apple ProRes Proxy
• FCP - Offline edit
• Selecting used clips and converting them to Apple ProRes 422
• Apple ProRes 422 seq to Color
• Grading
• Back to FCP
• Export Apple ProRes 422 graded seq
• Motion
• Export ProRes 422 movie
• ProRes 422 movie to H.264/5MBps for sharing

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

I did all postproduction and editing on MacBook Pro 2,53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM.

All editing, post and grading workflow was based on Final Cut Pro, Color and Motion.

For converting footage I found MPEG StreamClip much faster and more stabile than Apple Compresor so I’m using thtat all the time. 

FINAL CLIPS

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CONTACT

If you have next questions about this project, don’t hesitate to contact me at: alex@alexhajdu.sk.