— It’s summer, hopefully you’re in a place with darkness at night, and you can shoot the stars! Ian Norman from lonelyspeck.com shows some of his beautiful night skyscapes, and also tells us how to shoot our own using the ETTR (Expose To The Right Method) and then process them to get nice images even [...]
– The director of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes reveals 2 interesting tidbits in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) online dialogue: 1. Reeves wanted to shoot anamorphic, in part because of the narrower depth of field. But Reeves was told he couldn’t shoot anamorphic because the lenses didn’t match closely enough for [...]
— VICE Media’s Director of Photography Jake Burghart and Segment DP Jerry Ricciotti show us how they configure their Canon C300s for their rugged and sometimes dangerous documentary shoots. The video is on vimeo +++
The 2014 World Cup is using a 7-camera system to calculate the ball’s position near the goal line within a few millimeters. The cameras run “up to” 500 fps. The system was developed by a German company, and also sends a “Goal” message one second after the action to a watch worn by the referee. [...]
Our friends at Photocinerent shot with a high-speed Phantom Flex as they drove through Paris, and posted their video on vimeo. The combination of frozen people and a moving camera is eerie. I’m guessing that the video was shot in HQ mode at 1275 fps, which means they were driving pretty quickly +++ Link http://bit.ly/1iMjUJu [...]
— Our friend Jon Fauer has posted a video shot by the folks at Servicevision in Barcelona, demonstrating their new anamorphic lenses. The footage shows the 35mm, 75mm and 100mm at T2 and T2.8, and was shot with an Alexa. (The AC, by the way, is very good at those wide open stops.) The 35mm [...]
— In an interview with Carolyn Giardina for The Hollywood Reporter, Emmanuel Lubezki shares his excitement about HDR (High Dynamic Range), in order to get ride of “the gap” between current digital cameras and what he is used to getting on film negative. +++ Link http://bit.ly/1mdxgAN +++
– This is a public service announcement about a huge computer security problem, the biggest one in the history of the internet. The Heartbleed bug (aka CVE-2014-0160) has made many sites using https security vulnerable for the past 2 years, to random downloads of information, including user names and passwords. The range of sites that [...]
I gathered these 4 series of photos of the Paris Interaction event hosted by K5600 Lighting, Transvideo and Little Grand Studio. Marc Galerne‘s concept was to facilitate exchanges by filmmakers around lighting and monitoring gear. The concept worked ! The photos were taken by Jacques Delacoux, Jean-Noël Ferragut, Samuel Renollet and me. J’ai rassemblé ces [...]
This is not about film, but more of a public service announcement for filmmakers using Apple hardware. — If you own Apple hardware, you should navigate to gotofail.com to check the vulnerability of your mac computer, iphone, ipad and ipod to the gotofail bug. This bug puts you at risk in public wifi networks to [...]