Garrett Shannon

How are you liking the 858? I have one on the way but when shopping around I was surprised to see that Sekonic doesn't sell the 758 any longer; it was discontinued in Jan 2017.

Looks like the Tokina 11-16. That is probably a PL mount conversion? I've seen many places do them, that one appears to be by Duclos Lenses, pictured here: http://ducloslenses.com/Duclos_Lenses/PL116.html

Most of that is caused by shooting wide open. I would be willing to bet if you shot the same thing at 1/250th of a second at an F4 you wouldn't have that effect.

I would LOVE to have that issue. Days of Heaven is one of my top 3 films; I can't tell you how great it would be to get that issue. I'll send you a PM with my address. Thanks! So much for that PM. Wouldn't let me for whatever reason. If you need to reach me, through my website is probably the best bet. Thanks again.

If by body you mean body of the camera then you are looking for the universal symbol for the film plane. It is a circle with a vertical line drawn through the center, which extends past the edges of the circle on both ends. If you can't find such a symbol you want to measure from the film plane. The spot your are looking for has nothing to do with the lens, rather you are trying to measure from the sensor on a digital camera or where the film passes through the gate on a film camera so your measurement will need to start somewhere on the side of the camera. If by body you mean a human body (the subject of your shot which you presumably you want to be in focus) the general practice is to focus to their eyes. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL!! Usually the tape will be run to one side or the other of the actor's face to a point even with their eyes. In an extremely tight shot where the subject's eyes are not on the same plane as the camera and DOF is so shallow that only one eye will be in focus at a time usually the close eye is put in focus. Of course that is a personal choice and not a hard and fast rule. Happy focusing.

1. I would advise using compressor. In my experience the compression looks better when using compressor instead of FCP. Depending what version you have you need to either set the source dimensions to 2.40 and then set the export size to a 2.4 ratio. If you only set the export ratio to 2.40 then it will take your entire 4:3 or 16:9 frame and squeeze it into 2.40 aspect ratio. In the newest version I think you can just select export ratio and then check retain aspect ratio and it will do the crop automatically. 2. Start off the D5 if you can. Better looking footage in = better looking footage out. 3. If you plan to stream it from your website make sure you select compression settings for streaming not download and select the fast start - compressed header option. I usually use the Apple Trailers videos as a guideline and the 1080 trailers come in between 8 and 25Mb/s (Megabits) so your 720 transcodes should come in between 3 and 12Mb/s. Use this as a baseline and then it is up to you to decide how big the file size should be compared to the quality and how long it will take people visiting your website to download the video. If it’s so big that it takes 5 min to download nobody is going to watch it. Same thing for streaming; if people can't start watching within 5 seconds and continue to watch the entire video without waiting for buffering they are likely to turn it off. My 2 cents anyway. Check out my website http://garrettshannon.com if you want and download my videos to compare compression settings. Feel free to shoot me an email if you have more questions. -Cheers

My advise festival wise would be to keep it as short as possible. It is easier for the people doing the scheduling to fit in films which are shorter, especially under 10 min. But that is just what I heard. Foul language probably won't be a problem just keep that in mind when you submit and make sure to check the entry requirements as well as the festival's "theme" or mission statement. Probably wouldn't do you any good to submit to festivals which advertise themselves as family oriented, etc. If you aren't selling the script and the writing isn't so terrible or improperly formatted that it is causing problems for the actors or anyone else reading the script then I would advise you to write in whatever way best tells your story. Good luck.

HAHAH. Ya, I have definitely used the gel filter holder in the bolex before. I remember I got a free swatch of lee gel samples. The one that comes in that mini booklet and then cut out small squares of ND to fit in that little slide in holder thing. So good...

Ya. That is exactly what I am looking to be able to do. Just on any image. Is this what I would need to do the test that Chris Keth talked about: http://www.stouffer.net/Reflection.htm ? Also, how do I look at an image in a linear color space? Forgive my ignorance but I don't know that much color space and technical digital image lingo. Thanks everyone!

I don't need to know what the exact exposure is, only the relative exposure between one area of the image and another. Is there some way to translate luminance values in photoshop to stops so i can know for example that one area in the image is 1.5 stops brighter than another area in the image?

I was curious if anybody knew of a program or a way to do the following in Photoshop or something similar: I would like to be able to look at a digital still image on my computer and know what the different levels of exposure are within the image. Preferably in stops or something easily translatable to stops ie: the left side of the face is 1 2/3 stops hotter than the right side. Imagine having a still image from a movie and mousing over various parts of the image to get a general idea of how contrasty faces are lit or if there is a back light how many stops over it is. I think it would be a useful tool both to study the work of other DP's as well as review and make notes on my own work. Let me know if this is confusing and I can try to clarify. Otherwise, thanks. =)

try this thread: http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...8&hl=t+stop

You may also have more problems with flares/reflections in the gels as well.

Looking for a Super 16 SR2 1.85 ground glass. Arri or 3rd party. Thanks. Send a PM or reply. Cheers.

Looking for a Super 16 SR2 1.85 ground glass. Arri or 3rd party. Thanks. Send a PM or reply. Cheers.