Dieter Verlaenen's Lounge Discussions

"Star Lord"

Nice timing.

Wow. This is great filmmusic. It inspires me to write a certain story. That's cool. We writers and composers should exchange our work more often to get inspired by each other. Thanks for sharing!

Overwhelmed by the continuos response to Arise, eventhough I posted it a long time ago, thank you everyone very very much! I'm releasing an album soon so I'll post it here in case you all want to hear more epic uplifting music I've written.

powerful Milo...and it always great to create for self...it's a nice respite from what CAN on occasion become a grind! :D

As a still photographer with well over 30 years experience, I'll just say that there is no such thing as a perfect shot. The image, either on film or digital, is just raw material to work with. It is made more usable in post-either a wet darkroom or Photoshop. Think about your end use or user, and shoot with that in mind. Did somebody buy and/or publish your photo? Then it was "perfect" enough.

I absolutely agree! Keep on clicking!

"Fixing it in post" is a poor substitute for ability behind the lens. And 90% of the time, the cinematographer and the editor are two different people. (always a great way to ingratiate yourself with the editor - leave glaring errors on the film that you could have avoided by moving the camera a bit to the left)

I am not a photographer but it's same in music the perfect shot is always the best and most difficult to achieve Good luck with your work Alan

This is not about "fixing" it in post, which all too often is the opposite. Post production image manipulation tools are considerations added to what I do on the set and in pre-production testing. While I know I can make any scene look exactly as I wish on the set, I choose the combination that gives me my images as quickly, thus cheaply, as possible. As an example take the typical "summer blockbuster" look of greenish blue backgrounds , warmish highlights and increased gamma and vignetting (big generalization, but we all know the look). I can do all those things with camera set-up, lens filtration, and light filtration. Doing all of these things takes time and toys. Much easier to know that I will correct fully detailed specifically created images later to achieve the look I am after. While I pre-build an LUT so that the happy gang in video village keep their knickers untwisted, I know that in colour correction it will take only a few moments to make the shots exactly what I envisioned. This approach is much cheaper than doing it on the set, in this case. It is using everything at your disposal to bring your imagination to the screen. Again, the idea is to know how to use all of the available tools in combinations unique to each shot, in order to achieve your artistic intent as cheaply as possible that make the best images.

Tara you sound so beautifull, Arunee can't wait to perform with you again cause always a real pleasure. You girls have it all i am so proud of you !!!!

Thanks my friend. Both our girl sing beautifuly together. Looking forward at the gigs they will be doing the next months, starting with the big Your'In festival in Belgium.

If anywone has a nice song in English, don't hesitate sending it. Tara is looking for new and talented writing people and guitard based songs. My mailadres: erik.vaneycken@telenet.be.

Great gig today in our hometown. Tara played four songs on a network - business event. Much appreciated by the audience.

Congrats Tara!!!!

Thank you for your kind words Erik and yes Tara also rocks and together they are like angels

lovely sound. I'm working on a songs too. How do we collaborate?

hi Dean my mail is dieter@onestepbefore.be the person in music that is following Arunee atm is Jeroen Swinnen you can find him in google.

Kelly feel free to send your piece to Jeroen swinnen or to me sounds a great project

she is awesome.