{"id":12586,"date":"2011-01-24T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2012-10-18T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:59:28","slug":"umbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/umbria\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming a beautiful property with the Canon DSLRs with lots of toys!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gigs don’t get much better than this!<\/p>\n

At the end of last summer I went off to Italy to the Umbria\/ Tuscany border to film a property for a high profile client of mine. The brief was to capture the flavour of the property. The ambience. What was not wanted was a real estate video at all, something much more like my Skywalker Ranch film.<\/a> It is to go on the website for the rental of the property.<\/p>\n

So I went to the property and stayed there for a week. I know…what a drag! I took an absolute shit load of gear with me! Why? Because I could. There was no excess baggage costs on the flight so why not?<\/p>\n

Kit wise I took two Canon 5DmkIIs, 1 7D, and 1 Canon 1DmkiV. Lenses…erm…lots…check them out below. Mostly L series Canon lenses, 1.4x and 2x extenders, tilt shift lenses, big zooms, amazing wide angle lenses like the 14mm L series and the Tokina 11-16mm F2.8…the essential lens for any crop sensor Canon.<\/p>\n

Other gear was my Kessler Crane 2 foot Philip Bloom Pocket Dolly<\/a>, a 3 foot normal Pocket Dolly from Kessler Crane, the Oracle and Elektra Drive motor system for the timelapses, <\/a>a miller solo 3 stage carbon fibre tripod with DS20 head (which I took in the pool right up to the head…it is a fresh water pool and it seems fine, the water was also totally calm so no chance of getting the camera\/ lens wet but still made me a little nervous!), a manfrotto flat head tripod with 503 head for the pocket dolly, a couple of Gitzo traveller tripods…what else was there? Oh, lots of timelapse controllers, loads of batteries, cards, my Macbook Pro and some hard drives!<\/p>\n

I also had some Vari NDs from Singh Ray and some Fader NDs. Oh and one final important bit of kit. Some nice fat cuban cigars for those long nights of timelapses!<\/p>\n

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