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Interesting! Thanks again for answering all these questions!
To flip the question, how do you think you would’ve handled exposure if you had shot “Jarhead” on digital. I might be mixing up projects, but I think I remember reading that you did a pull process on that film combined with a slight bleached bypass. Would you attempt to do something similar on digital where you overexpose the exteriors to get more shadow detail and then pull it down in the DI?
I’m also curious in general how you tend to expose day exteriors. Obviously, it varies depending on the intended look, but I was curious how you would meter on a backlit exterior shot like this one:
I’d imagine the key to fill ratio was pretty extreme on this. Would you just split the difference between the key side and shadow side or is there a certain number of stops below middle gray you will always keep the shadows?
That’s very interesting about the hard versus soft light! I don’t think that’s a popular opinion since a lot of people say film handles highlights better and so hard light can be more pleasing. Why do you think that you are more likely to use soft light when shooting film?
I’m curious also, if you think your recent digital movies would look substantially different if you had shot them on film. Obviously, Blade Runner and 1917 would be nearly impossible to do on film, but do you think something like Sicario would have a different look to it? Do you think your exposure choices would be substantially different? If I remember correctly, in that movie theres a couple of prolonged scenes at blue hour which would require a very precise underexposure and exposure adjustments in-between takes/angles to keep it consistent as the sun goes down. On digital, I assume you are placing your exposure on set exactly where you want it in post, but if that was on film, would you have chosen to underexpose less in camera and bring it down in post instead?
Would that result in an increase in exposure and contrast like a push process? Or is this something different entirely?
