There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Some "moodier" sets might require some handheld lighting from assistants for extra highlights which are comped in to a degree later.
I have different user styles I created for different shooting scenarios they act as a start point, automatically tweaking; RGB squeeze, clarity, sharpening, vignetting, contrast, saturation highlight and shadow recovery. That way I have a solid start point that I can make minor changes to on the fly, plus the client sees the image over my shoulder looking a lot less flat than raw files straight out of the sensor.
Once the set, cameos and detail shots are captured, the client chooses selects on location using capture one colour tags, or from a contact sheet if the client is offsite (usually low res jpegs processed at sub 50%) selects are then processed, colour corrected, composited and retouched in photoshop, saved as both PSD's and Jpeg "finals". The finals are zipped and sent to the client, all sessions are backed up automatically through time machine/ archived manually, both offsite and in studio RAID storage devices.
My filing system goes something like:
Drive:/ . . . . / Digital Work/ "Client"/ Year/ (all capture one sessions within that year)