I have this lens and I have no idea what's up with your photos. The lens is extremely tack sharp even when shooting wide open at F1.8. The only issue with shooting at F1.8 is that the images lacks contrast. I have to stop it down to F2.8 or so to get really good contrast.
First: Thank you for your interesting video. I have a little bit of criticism to your commercial clip and please do not understand that as negative feedback, I simply want to reflect you my impressions, when I saw this commercial the first time. At first, I did not understand anything about what this clip wanted to communicate to me? I saw a phone and a blurry background, a woman, stairs, a car, a man, an enigmatic grey box, again the woman, and the phone and the information "just borrowed". What was borrowed? The phone? Later in the video you explained it and I understood your intention, but to my opinion, a commercial clip should be self-explanatory, and your clip wasn't (at least to me). Maybe the reason was that the clip did not clearly show the problem, that could be solved by the app (and this enigmatic box)? This grey microphone-thing, I think a lot of people (like me) have no idea what that thing is and what you can do with it. I asked myself, how I would had made that clip? Here is my proposal: It starts in a normal living room. A woman comes in with a package in her hands. She opens the package and takes a new lamp out. She climbs on a chair and tries to hold the lamp to the ceiling, but her arms are too short. Cut. Bäääm! Full screen: The name of the app! Cut. The woman takes her phone out of the pocket. Cut. Bääm! Full screen, GUI of the app (so that viewers can see what she ist doing). She types "ladder" and gets results. Cut. Now outside, the viewer sees a street. The woman walks on the street from left to right through the frame. Cut. Viewer sees a house. Woman comes in the frame and rings the doorbell. A man opens the door. Cut. Viewer sees in an open garage. Man and woman carry out the ladder. Cut. Viewer sees the street again. Man and woman walk from right to left through the frame and carry the ladder. Cut. Viewer sees livingroom again. Man stands on the ladder and installs the lamp to the ceiling, woman holds the ladder for security reasons (or reverse). Cut. Viewer sees the street again. Man and woman walk from left to right through the frame and carry the ladder back. Cut. Viewer sees the garage again. Man and woman come into the frame and stow the ladder away. Cut. Viewer sees the house again. Man and woman sit on the veranda in front of the house, drink coffee and chat. Cut. Bäääm! Full screen! Name of the app! I think that would be a little bit easier to understand (and self-explanatory). First the problem (woman needs a ladder), than the solution (the app to quickly organize a ladder). I hope this helps a little bit.
Cameras don't really get the credit, they are just tools, I think most people just want to know what tools you use because they are curious what limitations you had to work within, or what utility you could exploit. You do a grwat job of breaking down all the management , planning and workflow, and as a bussiness owner I can appreciate that more than maybe most young creatives only looking for a way to get paid doing what they enjoy, but kepping in mind that a big percentage of your audience might not have a business or projects like this to manage, it is reasonable that their interest might be more in the tools and the work than the workflow and management. ...either way great video, Nice Work! Don't sweat it, if it's not everyone who is as interested in your behind the scenes as they are the highlight reel, that's why you get paid the big bucks!
I can relate with more desks, One for Administration Work, one for Creative Work, one that is more of a Workbench for Servicing and setting up gear. then there is the one in my truck..... Who knew a desk job could mean setting up the perfect desk.
Love your setup and view!! I am very new to video and photo editing. I noticed in your videos and you mentioning in this one, about the track pad. I noticed today while I was using my mouse, I was going over to the track pad on my MacBook to use it for some functions. Why do you prefer to use the track pad over the mouse sometimes? Anything better about using it over a mouse when editing?
Literally just came from an LTT (Linus Tech Tips) video involving their cable management stuff to here... so, you know, go check that out ;) too funny. Also, in the studio doing cleaning and organizing today so this is great content just to have on while doing that!
