A gallery of images of the historic project to create the first image of a black hole, or more precisely, of the shadow created by the sphere of a black hole’s horizon. The gigantic black hole in galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is the size of our solar system. The M87 black hole is actively creating [...]
9 frames from the upcoming Apollo 11 documentary. Click on image to start slide show +++ LINK http://bit.ly/Apollo11Teaser +++
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 [...]
+++ 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 +++
+++ 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 [...]
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 +++
+++ 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 +++
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 +++