This cinematographed site is a Heritage of UNESCO. It is located near Chennai, India. The place is known as Mamallapuram. It was visualised and created by Pallava Dynasty who ruled Tamil Nadu between 2nd and 9th centure CE. These were sculpted from single stones which were abounding that sea shore area. It was visualised by a Pallava King Mahendra Pallavan. The sculptors drilled, holed and chiseled away unwanted pieces of stone to give such a 'built' appearance. It is a marvel of architechtural workmanship. The intricacies of scarving and sculpting is mind blowing.
Now coming to technical side - Canon 7D camera with RAW ML moduless was used with Tamaron 17-50 2.8 lens. As the tripod was not allowed everything was shot hand held. In this build 'live view' was not enabled. so only blind shooting. NO pan or zoom was possible. Just a 10 or 15 mtes quick shoot.
The post processing of RAW was done in Photo shop CS5.1 converted into TIFF images. Then Premere output. Originally shot in 1472x626 and upscaled to 2K in PS. Out put is 1080P MP4. This is Indian equatorial top light. The process was for Vivid Colours against stony monotone with rich blues, greens and stony reds.
Pl pardon the shaky old-man's hand.