The yearly homage to Harley Davidson was celebrated near Viennas Praterstadion with merchandising, a stage for the bands, a stunt show and of course with many Harleys. My impressions of that event were shot at saturday, 14th of May. I just took my Canon 5D MkII with the new Technicolor Cinestyle ready to prove the highly acclaimed flexibility for post production. I’m no huge fan of todays blockbuster look. Just to state more precisely, I’m no fan of the orange/tealish look at all. I like vivid colors, the vibrance-slider is my best friend. But this time there’s an exception to my rule. And there’s a good reason. Harleys main corporate color is a kind of orange and smoking tires for me should look a little bit blueish. So there’s the perfect excuse for colorgrading the shots in a manner sooo many others do …

Technicolor CineStyle

I think I will use the profile whenever it makes sense. In the past I often selected the well known superflat or Marvels Cine-Style, they both are very useful profiles. But there’s a different way of treating the blacks, I’ll be back with a more technical post about the new CineStyle. I also tried to use the free LUT Buddy, but FCP crashed. I don’t know what was the reason for that misbehaviour, I was able to see the very pleasing results of the single frames when editing in FCP. But when rendering, boom crash, … Nevertheless I’ll try again, with lut-transformation I should get back my beloved vivid “real live” colors.

Typical “blockbuster” orange/teal look

Those are the colors I like much more

“2nd Miss Vienna 2011″ (don’t ask what ’2nd’ means, I don’t know)