9 frames from the upcoming Apollo 11 documentary. Click on image to start slide show +++ LINK http://bit.ly/Apollo11Teaser +++
Mar 042019
Mar 022019
Photograph of Darius Khondji by Marianne Chemetov +++ When I visit Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC, in his home in Paris recently for coffee, tea and talk about his art and craft, we speak in his dark living room, with a small pool of light from a lamp on a nearby table, and soft daylight coming [...]
Mar 022019
+++ In part 2, Darius and I discuss: Big Light Sources Approach to Exposure Light Meters Contradictions Working with Directors +++ LINKS Visit with Darius Part 1 http://bit.ly/DariusKhondjiVisit1BenjaminB Part 2 http://bit.ly/DariusKhondjiVisit2BenjaminB +++
Feb 242019
+++ The performance of SHALLOW by Bradford Cooper and Lady Gaga at the Oscars was captured in a single-shot Steadicam “Oner”. The scene is beautifully sober, with simple backlighting and a staging and camera movement that ends up with a stunning close-up of their two faces. As Lady Gaga recounts to Jimmy Kimmel, Bradford Cooper [...]
Feb 022019
Netflix published a YouTube video showcasing the wonderful cinematography by Alfonso Cuaron for his film ROMA. I grabbed some of the beautifully intricate frames below. Every still frame merits study, like a photograph. Click on any image to enter into a slideshow mode: +++ YouTube link: http://bit.ly/Roma-Cinematography-YouTube +++
Jan 222019
+++ Director Guillermo del Toro offers 10 pithy insights into his friend Alfonso Cuaron’s movie on his Twitter feed: heaven and earth, shit and transcendence, servitude and water… +++ Link: http://bit.ly/10RomaMusingsGuillermoDelToro +++
Jan 212019
Although I love “I have a dream”, my favorite speech by Martin Luther King is the one he gave the night before his assassination: “I have been to the mountain top“. You can listen to the rousing, prophetic and death-defying 8-minute conclusion, which starts by recounting a previous assassination attempt when someone stabbed him, and [...]
Jan 062019
This post features a video in which Peter (colorist for Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter films, Faust, Inside Llewyn Davis) compares the highlights and blacks of film print, Xenon DCI and Laser HDR projection, and gives an overview of his HDR workflow…. The video is an edit of Peter’s presentation shot by Pauline Maillet [...]
Dec 212018
A post about the aesthetics and tools adopted by 10 strong cinematographers for their films at Camerimage: from New Naturalism, to Neo Vérité and Cine Expressionism, from film negative to Alexa 65. link: http://bit.ly/Ten2018FilmsBenjaminB +++
Sep 282018
This post continues my impressions of some of the current and future cinema technology presented at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam. +++ SUMMARY 1. LED Smart Light Marc Galerne K5600 Lighting, Frieder Hochheim Kinoflo 2. Texture Equaliser Daniele Siragusano – Filmlight 3. VFX in Real Time Adam Myhill from Unity and VFX consultant Habib [...]