How to do close up circling shot?

[Daniel Stilling DFF]

Did anyone notice that this is all to address a question that's almost 4 years old?

Either Sean has gotten it by now, or he went on to greener pastures.

 

Eric, please feel free to voice your opinions, but please refrain from stating them as unbendeable rules, ohh, and take care of your laundry of this forum, it's pretty ugly...

[Sanjay Sami]

If you need to move very precicly with a long lens in a perfect circle, why not just rent a circular dolly track? You can use as long a lens as possible and you can put stuff like lights on it.

 

I know Steadi is often used instead of a dolly for the sake of time on set. That's a separate discussion. Often times with roundy rounds, however, we don't start or end exactly in the circle. We either move into it, or move out of it somehow. Something a dolly can't do.

 

Dance floor :-)

[Eric Fletcher S.O.C.]

Dance floor :-)

 

True and with an great dolly grip you can do some amazing things

[Lars Erik]

Play nice Eric.

[Afton Grant]

Dance floor :-)

 

Yes, but anything but a nice, flat, preferably interior surface severely limits the situations where you can practically use dance floor.

 

Stinkin' bunch of pedants up in here.

[Igor Votintsev]

Here is my 360 from 6 years ago ...

Yes! It is the real working answer! Without blah-blah-blah...

Thanks, sir.

Edited January 6, 2013 by Igor Votintsev

[Twojay Dhillon]

*Uncomfortable silence* So... a dyslexic goes into a bra...

[William Demeritt]

Was it a Tiffen bar or a GPI bar?

[Twojay Dhillon]

JUMBO'S...

 

 

 

EDIT: oooh, the dyslexia works with that one!!! :wub: :wub: :wub:

[Eric Fletcher S.O.C.]

JUMBO'S...

 

if you have a glidecam do you get change?

[Twojay Dhillon]

if you have a glidecam do you get change?

 

Only if you sidle up to the rail.

[Eric Fletcher S.O.C.]

if you have a glidecam do you get change?

 

Only if you sidle up to the rail.

 

Track to the rail or circle to it?

[Twojay Dhillon]

if you have a glidecam do you get change?

 

Only if you sidle up to the rail.

 

Track to the rail or circle to it?

 

I'd personally try for a push-in, but to answer your question: I think consulting your horoscope and cross-referencing that with which phase the moon is in -- with its resultant ebbs and flows -- will allow for a better answer of whether one should spin the stick on the gimbal or cha-cha with the devil.

[Tim Moynihan]

Frederick von Gimbletorque...hilarious!! Charles, that one may stick!!

 

Tim

[Stig Indrebo]

What handgrips do people prefer for circling shots? I´m currently experimenting with different types, like the one where you place your thumb and pinky (to keep horizon) on one side of the gimbal and the rest on the other. See pic.