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[nicholam77]

You jokers.

...

Interestingly I'm not all that fond of the way it was shot so far because it feels too "produced" like I'm on PBS or something. No worries. It will get better as I go. So much equipment that requires so much learning. It's a steep learning curve but I'm getting the hang of it.

Gregor

Hi Gregor,

If you're referring to the video itself, it might be the frame rate. The first video you posted was @ 60 fps which is why all that drone footage looked so buttery smooth. But that ultra-smoothness can also sometimes be associated with the "soap opera daytime television" aesthetic, if that's what you mean by "PBS" and "too produced". I'm just guessing here but I think that might be what you're sensing.

Generally, I think most content looks best when shot at 24 fps. Cinema (films) are at 24 fps and always have been. Cable TV production is either 24 fps or 30 fps. Any premium cable like HBO, or high end streaming like Netflix is almost certainly shot at 24 fps.

There are reasons to shoot higher frame rates like 60 fps, but it will definitely lend a certain look that you may or may not prefer.



P.S. I'd also like to chime in as countless others have done, and say this thread has been hugely inspirational to me, particularly the work on the house, and a ton of fun to read!

 

[douglawrence42]

Turns out talking is hard.

Amen. I don’t have nearly the aspirations you do. But if I learn something cool, I like the idea of making a quick video to show others. Sort of a pay it forward for all the awesome content that has enabled my mechanical misadventures. I did my first voiceover last week, and I sound like someone whose mouth got sewn shut then had a stroke. I try to remind myself that you can’t possibly sound as bad to others as you do to yourself. Who knows, that could be true






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[mr_magicfingers]

Hi Gregor,

If you're referring to the video itself, it might be the frame rate. The first video you posted was @ 60 fps which is why all that drone footage looked so buttery smooth. But that ultra-smoothness can also sometimes be associated with the "soap opera daytime television" aesthetic, if that's what you mean by "PBS" and "too produced". I'm just guessing here but I think that might be what you're sensing.

Generally, I think most content looks best when shot at 24 fps. Cinema (films) are at 24 fps and always have been. Cable TV production is either 24 fps or 30 fps. Any premium cable like HBO, or high end streaming like Netflix is almost certainly shot at 24 fps.

There are reasons to shoot higher frame rates like 60 fps, but it will definitely lend a certain look that you may or may not prefer.

Yeah, this is pretty much spot on. I'm on a shoot for a big Netflix series at the moment and we shoot everything at 24fps unless there's a specific reason not to. Sometimes we'll shoot a shot at 48 or 96fps purely because the director wants to make a small segment of it slow motion, say a close up of a face but you'll just slow down the blink of an eye for a fraction of a second, that sort of thing.

Shoot at 24 and see how that looks. oh and check your shutter, shoot video on a dslr at 1/50 sec which is the closest to 'double the frame rate' rule of thumb.

I should add that I'm in no way a camera operator, but I've learned a bit because I work with them closely and tend to ask directors and DOP's questions about why they do things when there's a spare moment because I'm interested in their creative process.

 

[BoilermakerFan]

Thanks a lot guys... my night time productivity has dropped significantly... Now I'm just watching YouTube vids from those suggested accounts while waiting for Gregor to upload more content.

 

[Bakafish]

sakurama-sensei,

I'm starting my first major cabinet project, building them in my pantry where I can gain some experience before taking on the Kitchen where mistakes will be more impactful. Here in Japan, finding western style materials is always challenging, but I do have a local supplier of high grade Baltic Birch (Finland Birch over here) and have been lining up suitable surface treatments (water based polyurethane) and so forth to replicate some of the cabinets you've been making. My concern is that there is a lot of noise about using "plywood" for doors and drawer fronts and the likelihood of warping. I know Baltic Birch is 'better', but I don't even want to tell you how expensive this stuff is, the idea that it could warp is giving me chills.

Is this something I should be reconsidering? Wood veneer is really difficult to find here, and painted MDF seems so pedestrian, I am hoping you can reassure me that this actually will work.

(I'm omitting all the things I want to praise you for as it would likely double the size of your thread, but I cannot overstate how much of a true inspiration you are to me.)

 

[rmantoo]

You occasionally get the unicorns, where they are all 3. Frank Howarth. This Old Tony. Project Binky. Mark Rober. Vsauce. The Slow-Mo Guys. These guys make television that happens to be on Youtube.
I give a pass with some folks who continually hit 2/3, with the occasional home run. Welding Tips and Tricks, Tom Lipton, Robin Renzetti, Abom79, Jimmy Diresta, these kind of channels. These guys are all very good at what they do, are entertaining, have typicall
.

WOW!! I'm not much into youtube except for looking up things like "How to locate and remove ecu/alternator/transmission mounts/whatever from xxxxxx" etc...

But I just watched a Frank Howarth and Mark Rober video, and THANK YOU! That stuff is WAAAAYYYY better than netflix to me.

And I subscribed to Gregor's channel, too...

 

[rmantoo]

And Gregor, your place is AWESOME! Your builds, even more so!

My dad was a Korean war vet, and came back with a love of Japanese machines. growing up, we had only Japanese motorcycles, and except for his police vehicles, we had only toyotas, datsuns, and hondas for personal transportation.

Your builds make me want another RD350Lc (I bought a Kenny Roberts version in Monterrey in 1984, and Kenny actually signed my tank in person at Laguna Seca that year).

Keep up the good work, and know that although I don't post-hardly ever- I think there must be lots more guys like me on garagejournal, who lurk silently, enjoying your work, and life (your family is awesome, too!) vicariously.

Thanks for all the effort in posting all of this,
Robert Williams
San Angelo, Tx

 

[sakurama]

Wow, lots of stuff I've missed and sorry for not responding. It's been a busy few weeks. I'll try to do a quick catch up.

One of the first things was that I got to go for a ride. I went to the PNW Dualsport season opener and took the BMW which was fun. I probably should have ridden up and been ********* but it was raining and I wasn't feeling ********* - or prepared. I stuffed the Beemer in the van and enjoyed a nice warm drive through cold rain to the campsite.

It was a fun weekend. I rode with a few different groups and had no trouble keeping up with the dirt bikes. I rode some very ill advised and super tight single track on the edge of a forest hill, some cool mountain roads and I even made an effort to film it.

So you know I'm working on video. Effort number two: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-cKLRB4q/0/9b067aa5/1920/i-cKLRB4q-1920.mp4

With the back room mostly done (save for my desk which is still a mess) and the garage door project on hold since I've been so busy, I decided to knock out a sort of simple project: the mud room closet space between the shop and the house.

It was where I made the small parts storage cabinet and the shelves before that. It's never really gotten any love and when we first moved in it became the off cuts storage roo
m. I built a small container and made some quick brackets for a coat rack but that's it.

I made those brackets with pocket screws and shop grade plywood. I think I nailed the cleats on. I think. Anyway, a year or so ago the coat rack collapsed because that half assed solution failed. And I've been meaning to fix that for a while.

That is the collection of offcuts that has lived under that space. I'm going to pick through and keep a few of the good pieces of baltic birch but give the rest away. I'm trying to reduce my packrat tendencies.

Like all my projects there's always something else to deal with. I built that off cuts bin against the wall... 6 years ago? Like immediately after taking the place on. There was a hole I didn't think much of and it was covered. Well, it turns out it was an makeshift duct to the heating/AC that was under the stairs. This tells me that the original stairs were most likely an open design since the closet under the stairs has nice paneling and it otherwise a hot mess. So, note to self about that.

That duct was just stuffed with foam, newspaper and a 2x4 and a box covering the floor vent inside the closet. Now I get what was done but I had bigger fish to fry when we moved in. Well, this is also why this mud room is the coolest room in the house in the summer. So I have to block this off.

I use the Fien tool to cut the paneling back to square(ash) and block off the studs with a 2x4. While the paneling is rough fir I'm not going to try to match it, or tear it down and replace the wall or anything else you might expect of me. No, just a patch.

I use some 1/2" plywood from the off cuts and am quite happy I haven't gotten rid of it yet.

I find some thin 1/8" particle board there as well - hmm, why am I getting rid of all that stuff? Oh right, no space. That shims out the clear fir boards left over from the living room project. Sad to cut up a nice board but hey, it's going to a good home.

I putty up the gaps and do a rough job to make it match the rough boards. Doesn't really work but it's close enough.

You'll notice the wall changed color - that was Lara while I was gone. I mentioned that I'd like to paint that closet gray and then when I came home it was. That's how Lara rolls - she's a get 'er done sort of gal. I'm a start 10 of 'em projects and get distracted sort of dude.

Okay, I'm going to divide this up because it's too... much.

Gregor

 

[sakurama]

sakurama-sensei,

My concern is that there is a lot of noise about using "plywood" for doors and drawer fronts and the likelihood of warping. I know Baltic Birch is 'better', but I don't even want to tell you how expensive this stuff is, the idea that it could warp is giving me chills.

Sorry, I read this in NYC and didn't get the chance to respond until now.

I think of baltic birch as much more stable and warp resistant that normal plywood. That's my experience and intuition but I don't have facts to back that up. Because it's made from high quality and equal thickness laminates I think it is much stronger and less likely to warp. I've had regular plywood warp on me (not frequently and only on large pieces) but I've never had baltic birch do that.

Maybe others here can offer their thoughts but I think for something as small as drawer fronts the chances of warping are next to zero.

Gregor

 

[MH20]

Sorry, I read this in NYC and didn't get the chance to respond until now.

I think of baltic birch as much more stable and warp resistant that normal plywood. That's my experience and intuition but I don't have facts to back that up. Because it's made from high quality and equal thickness laminates I think it is much stronger and less likely to warp. I've had regular plywood warp on me (not frequently and only on large pieces) but I've never had baltic birch do that.

Maybe others here can offer their thoughts but I think for something as small as drawer fronts the chances of warping are next to zero.

Gregor

I built some bathroom vanity drawer fronts out of 18mm Baltic Birch and edged with 1/2" Beech to hide the edge. They're not huge, but definitely not small with the largest being about 12"x30". No problems as of yet. Just make sure you finish both sides of the doors/drawer fronts exactly the same and you should be fine.

If you are painting them, the other option is to use MDF and edge with hardwood as well. I might have gone this route if it wasn't a kids bathroom, meaning water WILL be everywhere.

Build with whatever makes you feel best, there are pros and cons to every building material.

 

[sakurama]

Next I had a big job with Ducati.

Jobs of this sort of significance don't happen very often and since I'm under an NDA I can't actually tell you what I was doing but I can say that I was working with the Pikes Peak race team.

We shot two days in the studio and it was the first time I've shot with continuous lighting (at least on a large scale) and that was because we were also doing video on this project. I didn't shoot the video but I did the lighting for it. I can explain the set to you more in a few weeks but right now i can share this photo.

I really do enjoy being challenged and this was the nicest light I've yet worked up for a motorcycle. As you'll see eventually. I was just thrilled that the light I imagined and sketched out worked out perfectly.

Then we headed out to Maryhill Loop Road in Washington and spent two days shooting with the team. Maryhill was built as an experimental highway in 1911 and was not only the first paved road in Washington, but the first road to use stacked horseshoe curves to climb a hill with a very low grade. It's also awesome. The road was bypassed and then donated to a nearby museum which rents it out to people like us.

Again, I can't really show you much but I can share this shot of Codie:

From one discipline to the other. Controlled studio light to high speed action. It was as much fun as I've had on a shoot in years. Great team, great location and I tried new things that I've been working on and they all worked amazingly well. Massive success and I was just thrilled.

I then had about 18 hours to go visit my family on the coast where Judiaann was with the kids at a fancy beach house as an Instagram job. I got in at 1am Monday, hung out with the kids, shot some video for Judiaann, had lunch and then headed home to unpack and repack for a trip to NYC to do an Oprah shoot. While I haven't done any more to the YouTube I am taking on small video projects that are letting me get the hang of it.

Here's the link to the video - effort number 3: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mmk6hbb/0/f8c845ee/1920/i-mmk6hbb-1920.mp4

I shot that with the drone (obviously) and a GoPro and I'm guessing that the GoPro wasn't set to manual so that's why the video is choppy in the house. I have to lock the shutter to 1/48th or 1/120th depending. I'm starting to get the hang of it. I just love flying the drone. Love, love, love.

Back to the NYC studio where I shot still life, edited Ducati and also tried to edit that beach video. My laptop has been fine up until now but trying to edit 4k video just killed it. I've never run into something so computationally debilitating. It was beyond frustrating so I bought a new (used) iMac. So, you haven't gotten a single YouTube video but I'm now like $6-8k in the hole with this little video excursion.

I needed a new machine anyway. That's what I keep telling myself...

Okay, that's almost caught up.

Gregor

 

[BoilermakerFan]

That MS 1260 PP is a sweet bike! It's cool to see that they didn't really change it too much from the retail version, at least visually. I see the race bikes have different wheels, race exhaust, and the rear fender/mirrors are gone; but overall it's remarkably similar externally to the retail bike. I wonder how much more power it makes?

 

[Hostyle]

Great shots of that Ducati allready, can't wait to see the rest of the set. Does it have anything remotely to do with the new V4 Pikes Peak project? (just ignore this if it falls under the NDA).

 

[sakurama]

Okay, now it's back to that closet. You're now suffering the same whiplash I am with the back and forth of projects and jobs.

I have plenty of left over baltic birch from the back room cabinets and luckily much of it is already ripped into the right width so I just have to cut the parts to length.

I basically duplicate the previous bracket but with good material and proper screws.

I keep an old stainless brush nearby when I use the hole saw in wood. The teeth clog up and the brush knocks the wood out allowing the saw to keep cutting.

I replaced the previous shop grade cleat with a baltic birch one and use the brackets to hide the screws. All screws on the brackets are from the top and back so that they're also hidden. I didn't use glue and I'm wondering if I should have.

I did find one board of prefin left and edge banded that onto the shelf to go on top.

It will probably be another year or so before the other walls get painted but this is nicely done and finished.

One of the reasons I wasn't bothered about the patch on the bottom of the this wall is that I plan to make a bench chest that sits under this so there's a place to store misc. MX gear and to sit and put your boots on.

And that is what I've been up to.

Oh, and teaching myself After Effects. I don't consider myself getting into video so much as photography over time.

Gregor

 

[Hostyle]

That's a good looking coat rack!

I believe I saw some of your Ducati handiwork on IG, courtesy of Ducati BENELUX. A small sneak peak of a MTS.

 

[SW50th]

nice video. The drone work is really cool too and shows how complex and beautiful the Oregon surf can be.

 

[MacInger]

Coat rack is looking great. Mind if i ask where you get the baltic birch plywood? Seems to be higher quality than the Home Depot one.

Re: lighting. Don't know if you have had a chance to use helium filled balloons yet but they're amazing and almost a necessity for exterior night shoot to get those dripping sheet metal reflections. So interesting to see it from the perspective of a photographer. I am on the opposite side of the spectrum only shooting continuous lighting.

Re: editing. 4k is a pain but at least you are not doing vfx/motion graphics. In the experiential space we end up rendering 20+k res routinely. In the older days we used to work with proxies. After Effects is still set for using proxies...not sure if Premiere is,..but that is a viable solution if you are "bottlenecking". Next expense for video would a fast raid, if you do not have one. That will transform the workflow.

 

[nicholam77]

Re: editing. 4k is a pain but at least you are not doing vfx/motion graphics. In the experiential space we end up rendering 20+k res routinely. In the older days we used to work with proxies. After Effects is still set for using proxies...not sure if Premiere is,..but that is a viable solution if you are "bottlenecking". Next expense for video would a fast raid, if you do not have one. That will transform the workflow.

Another tip I'll throw out there, the video codec you're working with makes a big difference. Converting the footage to an edit-friendly codec such as Apple ProRes, and setting the render codec to the same, will make a huge difference in performance vs. something like h.264 which is much more computationally intensive.

Also, when it comes to editing video, it's not just about CPU. Make sure you have enough memory, and a decent graphics card, as modern video editing applications can leverage the GPU heavily.

 

[sakurama]

Coat rack is looking great. Mind if i ask where you get the baltic birch plywood? Seems to be higher quality than the Home Depot one.

Re: editing. 4k is a pain but at least you are not doing vfx/motion graphics. Next expense for video would a fast raid, if you do not have one. That will transform the workflow.

I got the iMac and stuffed it with as much Ram as it can hold. At this point even my still images with layers are 1-2GB so I needed the horsepower. No soon is it set up then I decide to try to do an animation from my still images. I've literally spent the last 20 hours learning and making an animated image in After Effects. I did the tutorial and then spent 5 hours making a video which went to the US CEO of Ducati who loved it. Then asked for changes. That I am trying to learn as I go. It's brutal. Fun but brutal.

I'm an idiot. Who needs a raid. I can't believe I went from 16GB of ram to 64GB and twice the processor and it's still slow.

Another tip I'll throw out there, the video codec you're working with makes a big difference. Converting the footage to an edit-friendly codec such as Apple ProRes, and setting the render codec to the same, will make a huge difference in performance vs. something like h.264 which is much more computationally intensive.

Also, when it comes to editing video, it's not just about CPU. Make sure you have enough memory, and a decent graphics card, as modern video editing applications can leverage the GPU heavily.

Yeah, I have a lot to learn about video. Holy cow. I will look into codecs. So over my head right now.

If I get this right you'll see it next week everywhere. If I don't you'll see it here.

Gregor

 

[MacInger]

Here for After Effects tutorials: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

But if you have any AE, motion graphics, 3d, etc questions hit me up. I used to teach it.


As for codecs, just stick to ProRes HQ 422 and you should be fine.

Ram definitely helps in PS and AE. AE and Premiere though are also very throughput hungry. You can have as much RAM as you want but if you're pulling files of a standard HD,..it will eventually drive you mad. SSD is great but not enough space, so a fast raid becomes inevitable....if you are doing enough video work to warrant it.

good luck

 

[bdbecker]

Coat rack is looking great. Mind if i ask where you get the baltic birch plywood? Seems to be higher quality than the Home Depot one...

You are correct, the HD stuff is not very good. The ply count isn't the same, and the outer layers are just a thin veneer - not a full thickness ply. It's priced similarly to baltic birch, but its not the same quality.

I had to shop around a little to find it here in Des Moines, but ended up finding several sources in my area that carry it, mostly lumberyards. I can even get the true euro-spec 5x5 sheets at The Woodsmith Store just a few miles away from my house. Being in LA, you should have plenty of options with the added bonus of being able to shop around for the best pricing.

 

[MacInger]

Thanks bdbecker, that is helpful. I'll go shop around.

 

[sakurama]

Thanks bdbecker, that is helpful. I'll go shop around.

Sorry, I meant to reply and missed it! Yes, in LA you should have a lot of options. It's a good idea to search the better lumber places until you find a reliable source and you should be able to get both sizes in the true baltic birch.

There's also Appleply which is a step above baltic birch but also a step above in price as well. I've always wanted to try it but never wanted to pay the extra $40-50 a sheet premium.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Gregor

 

[Finallygotit]

When I lived in the LA area, I got my GOOD lumber from these folks.


HTH


https://forestplywood.com/

 

[MacInger]

Thanks Greg, Dan!!

 

[LaCorski]

Next I had a big job with Ducati.

Jobs of this sort of significance don't happen very often and since I'm under an NDA I can't actually tell you what I was doing but I can say that I was working with the Pikes Peak race team.

We shot two days in the studio and it was the first time I've shot with continuous lighting (at least on a large scale) and that was because we were also doing video on this project. I didn't shoot the video but I did the lighting for it. I can explain the set to you more in a few weeks but right now i can share this photo.

I really do enjoy being challenged and this was the nicest light I've yet worked up for a motorcycle. As you'll see eventually. I was just thrilled that the light I imagined and sketched out worked out perfectly.

Then we headed out to Maryhill Loop Road in Washington and spent two days shooting with the team. Maryhill was built as an experimental highway in 1911 and was not only the first paved road in Washington, but the first road to use stacked horseshoe curves to climb a hill with a very low grade. It's also awesome. The road was bypassed and then donated to a nearby museum which rents it out to people like us.

Again, I can't really show you much but I can share this shot of Codie:

From one discipline to the other. Controlled studio light to high speed action. It was as much fun as I've had on a shoot in years. Great team, great location and I tried new things that I've been working on and they all worked amazingly well. Massive success and I was just thrilled.

I then had about 18 hours to go visit my family on the coast where Judiaann was with the kids at a fancy beach house as an Instagram job. I got in at 1am Monday, hung out with the kids, shot some video for Judiaann, had lunch and then headed home to unpack and repack for a trip to NYC to do an Oprah shoot. While I haven't done any more to the YouTube I am taking on small video projects that are letting me get the hang of it.

Here's the link to the video - effort number 3: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mmk6hbb/0/f8c845ee/1920/i-mmk6hbb-1920.mp4

I shot that with the drone (obviously) and a GoPro and I'm guessing that the GoPro wasn't set to manual so that's why the video is choppy in the house. I have to lock the shutter to 1/48th or 1/120th depending. I'm starting to get the hang of it. I just love flying the drone. Love, love, love.

Back to the NYC studio where I shot still life, edited Ducati and also tried to edit that beach video. My laptop has been fine up until now but trying to edit 4k video just killed it. I've never run into something so computationally debilitating. It was beyond frustrating so I bought a new (used) iMac. So, you haven't gotten a single YouTube video but I'm now like $6-8k in the hole with this little video excursion.

I needed a new machine anyway. That's what I keep telling myself...

Okay, that's almost caught up.

Gregor

What a great road...and only about an hour from my front door! We went there about 2 years ago to watch vintage car time trials, lots of fun. We got a ride to the top in an old school bus, that was a trip! The guy made probably 10 trips up and down each day and got pretty good at it, some of the passengers where white-knuckling it for sure! Would luv to tackle it on my own in a car or bike some day. Maybe! Just curious, did you happen to go down the street about a mile and get any pics of the veterans memorial, its a full size remake of Stonehenge. My first avatar was my car in front of it. Pretty cool spot, lost of history in those few square miles.

 

[sakurama]

What a great road...and only about an hour from my front door!

Just curious, did you happen to go down the street about a mile and get any pics of the veterans memorial, its a full size remake of Stonehenge. My first avatar was my car in front of it. Pretty cool spot, lost of history in those few square miles.

I've been past that Stonehenge monument - it's a strange thing to be there. As for the road, I brought my KTM 500 as a "shuttle vehicle" and in case we needed to get to certain spots. Both Scott, my second shooter, and I got to get a rip up the road which was a blast. I wish it was still public.

Gregor

 

[trojandj]

So, you haven't gotten a single YouTube video but I'm now like $6-8k in the hole with this little video excursion

So it’s about 1/2 the cost of motorcycling.

Saying this as I am working 2 project bikes, going about as expected.

 

[EMonroeWilson]

Well, it has taken me about 2 weeks off and on to read this whole thread but with this post I feel as though I have passed a right of passage here at GJ.
Thank you for sharing all of these projects, family vacations, bike ****, etc. with us. Here's to another 162 pages! haha

 

[gearhead1960]

Gregor,

I've been in your rabbit hole thread for weeks now and finally found the exit. I have a few choice words for you.... OMG and Epic! I've really enjoyed your MCM house rebuild and all other stuff mechanical. We share some common interests, primarily MCM. While I appreciate the MCM stuff, and used to ride a vintage RD350, SWMBO hates them as one of her childhood friends was killed riding and just won't tolerate them in the house. I already get in enough trouble with the car stuff.....so just sayin'.

I grew up in a MCM house in VA, outside of Wash, DC. While I don't live in one now, we decorate and collect MCM art and furnishings. Here's a few recent images....sorry for the poor quality compared to yours...

The wife and I covet some MCM houses by Charles Goodman in a neighorhood called Hollin Hills in Alexandria, VA, but they have long since sailed past our price range....

Keep up the high standards and superb work, I'll be reading, watching the Gregor F'n YT Network and throwing in my 2 cents when I can.....

 

[nadogail]

As a native Oregonian, I learned; Oregonians don't tan; they rust.

 

[sakurama]

Well, it has taken me about 2 weeks off and on to read this whole thread but with this post I feel as though I have passed a right of passage here at GJ.
Thank you for sharing all of these projects, family vacations, bike ****, etc. with us. Here's to another 162 pages! haha

A right of passage - that's funny. I think it's more like someone just forgot to turn off the hose and the yard is flooding.

So it’s about 1/2 the cost of motorcycling.

Saying this as I am working 2 project bikes, going about as expected.

I've always been taught to throw away the motorcycle receipts or else it's not fun anymore.

Gregor,

I've been in your rabbit hole thread for weeks now and finally found the exit. I have a few choice words for you.... OMG and Epic! I've really enjoyed your MCM house rebuild and all other stuff mechanical. We share some common interests, primarily MCM.

The wife and I covet some MCM houses by Charles Goodman in a neighorhood called Hollin Hills in Alexandria, VA, but they have long since sailed past our price range....

Keep up the high standards and superb work, I'll be reading, watching the Gregor F'n YT Network and throwing in my 2 cents when I can.....

Thanks. Those are some beautiful pieces. Sadly, kids and pets have ruined much of the nice MCM furniture that I had coming into this venture but I'm still happy to have it. The intentional design is appreciated.

Gregor

 

[sakurama]

Great shots of that Ducati allready, can't wait to see the rest of the set. Does it have anything remotely to do with the new V4 Pikes Peak project? (just ignore this if it falls under the NDA).

Well, I've been ignoring this!

It's been an exhausting few weeks. Aside from the shooting there is the retouching and the interpreting. But finally the bike is public. What a fun thing to be part of a new model release and to have the prototype to shoot exclusively.

I am not conservative in my photography and so my images for this were aggressive - it is after all a 200+ hp naked street bike - there's nothing conservative about that. Ducati is much more conservative as a company in it's PR and advertising and that was surprising to me. However my images made their way to Claudio Domenicali, the CEO, and he loved them. Sadly, despite many, many, many revisions my After Effects freshman effort didn't make it out in todays reveal. This is what they went with but below is the link to the reveal.

Here's what I came up with: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mBKDKJq/0/4dcc1ab2/1920/i-mBKDKJq-1920.mp4

The rest of my shots - the ones they've approved for release - are here at this link: https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/bikes/streetfighter-v4

Thankfully the bike is now finally public. I can prepare for my vacation next week riding motorcycles with Ben, Scott and a small group of friends. Not much time to prep but I right now I need a break so it couldn't come at a better time.

Gregor

 

[KojiKP]

Appreciate you sharing the behind the scenes. As a motorcycle and photography enthusiast, it's got my interest for sure! Well done!

 

[MIB]

Congrats on the Duc shoot Gregor, have been admiring the release shots this morning and then read you did them. Might have to look at the V4 SF to keep my Hyper company in the shed.

 

[sakurama]

Congrats on the Duc shoot Gregor, have been admiring the release shots this morning and then read you did them. Might have to look at the V4 SF to keep my Hyper company in the shed.

I had Hyper 1100S and it was one of my all time favorite bikes. I get the same feelings from this bike. It’s a beast.

Gregor

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Nice work Gregor, I really like the lighting affect!

 

[GrantT]

The rest of my shots - the ones they've approved for release - are here at this link: https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/bikes/streetfighter-v4

I love the feeling that I'm spying on this top secret bike that shooting through the grass gives, especially the first wheelieing one!

Reminds me of seeing digi-camo cars testing over the Sitgreaves Pass on Route 66

 

[azcanc]

Wow there is a ton of stuff going on in that set of pics.... love the tech side of jobs like this

 

[paranoid56]

Well, I've been ignoring this!

It's been an exhausting few weeks. Aside from the shooting there is the retouching and the interpreting. But finally the bike is public. What a fun thing to be part of a new model release and to have the prototype to shoot exclusively.

I am not conservative in my photography and so my images for this were aggressive - it is after all a 200+ hp naked street bike - there's nothing conservative about that. Ducati is much more conservative as a company in it's PR and advertising and that was surprising to me. However my images made their way to Claudio Domenicali, the CEO, and he loved them. Sadly, despite many, many, many revisions my After Effects freshman effort didn't make it out in todays reveal. This is what they went with but below is the link to the reveal.

Here's what I came up with: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mBKDKJq/0/4dcc1ab2/1920/i-mBKDKJq-1920.mp4

The rest of my shots - the ones they've approved for release - are here at this link: https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/bikes/streetfighter-v4

Thankfully the bike is now finally public. I can prepare for my vacation next week riding motorcycles with Ben, Scott and a small group of friends. Not much time to prep but I right now I need a break so it couldn't come at a better time.

Gregor

question, was Carlin the rider for that shot?