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Art Adams

Art Adams is a cinema lens specialist at ARRI, Inc. Before that, he was a freelance cinematographer for 26 years. You can see his work at http://www.artadamsdp.com.

Art has been published in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Australian Cinematographer and Camera Operator magazines, and has written for ProVideo Coalition since its inception. He is an active member of the International Cinematographers Guild and a former member of the Society of Camera Operators (SOC).

Some thoughts on color, brightness, and contrast 1

Experts

Some thoughts on color, brightness, and contrast

Posted on December 26, 2017

I’m not happy with just knowing that colors work together in artistic ways. I want to know why. Here...

LED, the convenient yet dangerous light source 5

Experts

LED, the convenient yet dangerous light source

Posted on December 19, 2017

I love LEDs. Well, mostly. I have my tricks for dealing with them, and I’m going to pass some...

Panavision revives VistaVision for a digital world: part 2 6

Production

Panavision revives VistaVision for a digital world: part 2

Posted on December 11, 2017

Does large format really create a greater sense of depth and dimensionality in a flat image? Read on to...

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Production

Panavision revives VistaVision for a digital world: part 1

Posted on December 11, 2017

The mid-20th century epic movie experience is returning to a screen near you— at your local cineplex, in your...

Train your eyes to see color, the easy way 22

Production

Train your eyes to see color, the easy way

Posted on November 17, 2017

Color awareness is a learned skill. All you really need is a car. The human brain is a funny...

Opening titles: commercials that sell a series 33

Post Production

Opening titles: commercials that sell a series

Posted on November 14, 2017

The art of the opening title sequence is flourishing like never before. The best ones contain clues, “Easter eggs,”...

Art of the manual white balance 35

Production

Art of the manual white balance

Posted on November 13, 2017

White balancing a camera is only half the story. Now we have to white balance our lights. Back in...

Three beautiful TV shows you probably aren't watching 41

Experts

Three beautiful TV shows you probably aren’t watching

Posted on November 6, 2017

I’ve worked on episodic television. I know how fast it moves. That’s why I’m amazed at how good recent...

Halloween 2017 movie recommendations 65

Featured

Halloween 2017 movie recommendations

Posted on October 30, 2017

“Terror is smelling a corpse, while horror is finding it.” Gothic fiction defines these terms as very different things,...

Current thoughts on current lenses 67

Experts

Current thoughts on current lenses

Posted on October 17, 2017

Near perfect lenses are easy to find these days. The problem is… I don’t want them. I want lenses...