Helpful Ways for Cinematographers to Get a Grip on Lighting Part 3
Here we are in Part III of our series, Lighting Tips for Cinematographers. To recap, in part 1 I...
Helpful Ways for Cinematographers to Get a Grip on Lighting Part 2
The last post we talked about how to get a proper initial setting when lighting your subject/foreground and background....
Helpful Ways for Cinematographers to Get a Grip on Lighting
I spent the 1st half of this year releasing two films, a feature length documentary and a short film...
The Art Adams Zone System for HD
I used to be frustrated by my inability to use light meters in HD the way I used to...
Monitors and Filmmaking
The difference between a movie and a video is that a movie is created in the filmmakers’ minds and...
The New 4K: Different from the Old 4K
On a recent visit to Sony Studios I saw a 4K monitor for the first time. For the first...
Log vs. Raw: The Simple Version
Years ago I wrote an article describing how log encoding works using Sony’s S-Log as an example. Sony’s S-Log2...
Move the Camera, Not the Actor
On a recent shoot a discussion arose as to whether it was better to move an actor or to...
How to Be Kind to a Camera Assistant
A lot of people are starting out at the top these days–just buying a camera and starting a career...
Color Matching a Canon C300 to an Arri Alexa
I’m shooting more projects with the Canon C300 but none of the built-in looks greatly appeal to me. While...
