bobbioni Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 ...using it in order to reduce overall contrast or to modify color in the darkest image areas altering the mid-range and lighter image tones.... ok, I am looking for movies made with this process, someone knows one? since the only flashing images that I saw was my tests thans leticia bobbioni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted July 30, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted July 30, 2007 I used the Panaflasher on "Northfork", following some similar techniques used in "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (i.e. diffusion, smoke, and flashing). Besides "McCabe", Zsigmond used flashing heavily on "The Long Goodbye". Freddie Francis used the Lightflex, later the Varicon, to flash movies such as "Dune", "Glory", "The Straight Story", though not heavily. Lubezsky flashed "The Little Princess" lightly (about 10%). Many of John McTiernan's action movies were flashed lightly ("Hunt for Red October", "Last Action Hero", "The 13th Warrior".) One of the first movies to use flashing throughout was "Camelot". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Bartlett Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Hi David, Would you mind explaining, or giving an example of how flashing affected the look of Northfork (a screenshot, perhaps)? I am interested in the process, but know little about it. Beautifully shot film, by the way. --S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted July 31, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted July 31, 2007 Up to a 7% flash, you create some small improvement in shadow detail, but above that, you are just lifting the blacks and softening the colors. The sharpness is also reduced because sharpness is affected by contrast. But I was combining a 15% to 20% flash with a skip-bleach process on the prints, which restored the blacks while further softening colors (think of it like mixing paint -- flashing is like softening a color paint by adding white paint into it, and skip-bleach is like softening a color by adding black paint into it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Bartlett Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Thank you, David. That makes a lot of sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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