Monday, August 18, 2008

Rewiring Wired

Wired’s RED article turned out to be the result of a large game of “telephone”

I’ve spoken now with both the author of the Wired article and Jim Jannard and I’m convinced the technical errors in the article are simply a matter of someone outside the industry trying to understand some complexities that not many inside our industry totally understand.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Composition Occurs in both Space and Time

No shot stands alone. A little planning makes all compositions stronger.

I first became aware of composition over time while watching the film The Hit.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

What Wired Didn’t Understand about Depth of Field

It’s not about analog vs. digital, it’s frame size vs. focal length

In the Sept. ‘08 issue of Wired Magazine, in an article about the RED camera called “A Star is Born,” the author states that the difference in depth of field between film cameras and HD cameras is due to “analog versus digital,” with no other explanation. I’ve written this for him and for anyone who wonders why 35mm film and large sensor HD cameras have so little depth of field.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Wired Magazine Gets the RED Totally Wrong

Did anyone fact check this article, or is that just old-fashioned?

I’d like to encourage everyone reading this to pick up a copy of this month’s Wired magazine (Sept. 2008, page 128) and read the article. Then I’d like you to write to both Wired magazine’s editorial department () and the article’s author (Michael Behar, whose email address is listed at the end of the article).

This is one of the SLOPPIEST pieces of journalism I have ever read pertaining to the film industry. Here is the email I just sent to both the author and the editorial department:

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Friday, August 15, 2008

RGB and the F23

The more spectra your camera can see, the more it can do.

The Sony F23 sees hues of colors I didn’t think a digital camera could see. Why?

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Swing of Things

Using tilt/shift lenses for good instead of evil

I recently shot a museum project where the style required almost exclusive use of tilt/shift lenses. (We occasionally used a Zeiss 14mm prime, but that was rare.) It was a lot of fun, but I remember how tilt/shifts were a considerable mystery before I used them for the first time. Here’s the nickel tour of how to use these lenses.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Advice to a Camera Trainee

What I’d tell someone who starts a job as a camera PA--tomorrow!

A film student, who I’ve been mentoring, landed a job on a low-budget RED project as camera PA. He sent me an email saying he’s starting the job tomorrow, and what should he know? Here’s the email I sent him to prep him for his first real camera department job:

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Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Fine Art of Negotiating

I should learn how to do it sometime.

I received a cryptic email the other day: “A director we’ve hired asked for you. Please tell us your rates and fees for a one day corporate project.”

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