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Thank you so much for your reply Mr. Deakins! It is always a fantastic gift to receive an answer from you!
Thank you, as well, for your advice to work very closely with the production design and set dressing, of course when the scale of the production allows me to do that.
In a “recent” project (a small budget feature that I shot last year) there were some issues with the set dressing (of course no set or studios were involved due to the limitation of the budget but only real locations) and I went to stores to buy some kind of fixtures that I had in mind for some spaces, it was not so easy cause it was my “second” experience for a feature, but it helped me to find the “right” kind of practicals for each space (unfortunately I couldn’t cover all the scenes).Thank you again Mr. Deakins, In the next posts I will try to upload stills to make the post more complete and visually “direct”.
I wish you a peaceful Sunday,
Max.Hello Mike, just tried to clear the “cache” but nothing. Maybe I’m doing something wrong, I’m just hitting the image button and uploading pics but when I hit the “reply” button my reply doesn’t appear.
maybe it needs to be verified by a moderator? When you post pics with the new version of the forum was the reply “immediate” or did you have to wait?
Thank you,
Max.Hello Stip, thank you for your reply. I think you are right, and sometimes it is “needed” to consider every factor (like those you wrote) and try to find a way to bring ourselves to the project with our creative ideas during the dialogue with the director.
Have a nice day.
Max.Very pleasant and interesting! No questions about lighting but a lot of good questions in my opinion, and very informative answers.
It felt to me to have a good chat while watching the whole video.Thank you so much for sharing Mrs James!
I wish you a peaceful Sunday,
Max.Thank you very much for your reply Mr. Deakins! I know you are really busy around the world and really appreciate your answer (priceless).
“In a case like this I will ask for a rig to be put up knowing it might only be necessary for…”
The big lesson for me here is this concept, too often, also if I do often just small productions I do things during the day by watching on the frame, and often the result is a lot of stands and cables around.
When I saw the photo of the rig I thought about your possible idea to have a “clean” set and lamps “ready to use”.Thank you again for your reply Mr. Deakins, and thank you as usual for your kindness. Reading from you is always fantastic.
I wish you a peaceful day.
Max.I found the pic that I’m referred.
Photo via Historic BlancoOf course, If I violated some copyright I can delete the image, mine was only a question asked to learn from Mr. Deakins.
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Max.If I can join in this topic, I think Ganesh asked a good question and did a good subjective analysis.
In my opinion, first of all, art is subjective. It is subjective when someone feels and creates a piece of art and often is subjective when a human being is connecting to it and has his sensations, his reactions, and his own interior questions.
I think, to answer to Ganesh, that Mr. Villeneuve took his risk to change the way to introduce a crucial character like Alejandro, and by doing this he changed the whole Image System of the movie and the way we as an audience perceived and followed the story.
When we all do something we taking our risks, this is a process that can improve our path (passing also by brutal failures).
I agree with Michael (Mr. Ryan) and to be honest I never analyzed the fact Kate is something like an “observer” of the story, we as the audience are Kate. This is a strong storytelling point of Sicario in my opinion and is maybe the the factor that makes the movie not “just an action movie”.
Of course, this is my opinion, as an audience. I’m not won any awards nor feel like a movie theorist.
In the end, I agree with the concept to be always respectful of each other.
I know you Vanniyan are so passionate about movies and cinematography and are a huge fan of Mr. Deakins (like us) but this doesn’t let you blame and call someone “child”.Often a child can teach us to see something that we never saw.
I apologize for my bad English.
Have a peaceful Sunday all forum members.
Max.Hello Jeff, if I can share my thought about this topic I would say that exposure is something subjective and so also the method that you seems it’s better for you is the right for your work.
I use a mixture of: incident light meter, false color, waveform, and also spot meter.
When I started to be fascinated by photography there were already digital cameras and so monitors to judge exposure, but when I “grew up” in terms of knowledge and awareness I understand that, for me, relying only on a monitor is something a bit approximate. When you have to balance lights for a set and you want to be specific about contrast/tone/differences between bright areas and dark areas I think you have to be a bit more specific than seeing on the monitor and dim down the lights while you look at the monitor without knowing at what STOP that light is.
The same for me is for false color, when you look at a false color, you see a scale based on IRE, now there are a lot of people more prepared than me over this forum, but each camera has its own increase of IRE to reach a STOP of value.
I look at false color (as for waveform) only to see if I’m clipping highlights or blacks but everything in the middle I feel is quite complex for me to judge.
If you do multiple tests and understand (with a light meter) how your camera sees a full STOP with a false color, you, of course, can be the idea of which color means in terms of under and over exposure.For me, an interesting tool, that would be a mix of false color and spot meter, is the EL Zone, by Mr. Ed Larchman, but if I remember it is only for Panavision.
Please note, this is MY own thought, there are a lot of fantastic dp’s over there that expose their image fantastically well only watching at a monitor because they are fixed and solid a workflow and this is the point for me.
Develop your workflow and stay on which you feel better comfortably with.
I wish you a great day.
Max.Thank you so much Mr. Deakins for your reply! It’s always fantastic reading from you!
The beauty of “simplicity”.
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Max.Since I discovered this site, it is my best inspiration source every day. It gives me the strength to go ahead and follow my ambition and passion, especially in difficult moments.
There are not enough words to thank Mr. Deakins and Mrs. James, for everything they did and do for the cinematography and cinematographers.
I always loved to share and for this purpose, I love their attitude, Learning is one of the best parts of life, and even if (like me) there was not the possibility to go on film school, resources like this give us the ability to learn from a master and improve ourself.Just two words from a simple guy: Thank you.
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