Jesse Aragon

I recommend the 858, touchscreen hasn't been a problem for me and the internal spot meter readings are great and bright.  You can also use a digital stills camera for a partial reference.  

Hello All,

I am looking for any leads on crew in the Washington DC area for a narrative project coming up in early January.  Both camera and Lighting, shoot me an email or DM me here, thanks! 

jessearagon@icloud.com

Very Nice :)

I would test the batch out, years ago I remember using some old stock and the backing would get stuck to the film... :(

Great video on cronenweth, thx for sharing.

thanks!

Hey guys,

just wondering if anyone has a recommendation, where I can take an m18 feeder cable to get fixed, it seems like one of the ends(connector got bent) thus the lamp will only strike when the cable is folded to one side.

Another great pdf! thanks for sharing :)

Another great pdf, thank you Stephen!

Thanks for sharing!

I don't know if you have thought about also adding some 1x1 led panels, the kind that's dimmable and gives you both tungsten and daylight. I really enjoy using those especially since you can run them off a camera battery. add some 1x1 cutouts of different diffs as well.

David, the trailer looks great! I was wondering about the shot at 1:13 in the trailer with the girl and the overexposed window. I have a shoot coming up where I am planning on doing something similar outdoors, in the afternoon with the sun backing a young girl, I want that hot overexposure from the background. Did you bring it up in post or did you get that in camera? I am shooting this on a red, I am wondering if I should play it safe and give myself some room in post.

Thanks

I've used some of these off brand lights before, they definitely don't match the arri quality, but if your punching them through a frame or diffusion it doesn't really matter. They do tend to leak a bit of light though, especially from the sides, compared to the arri's.

Your dof also depends on your lens, depending on the look you can also try pushing the stock.

Here's one of my favorites, Supper at Emmaus, by Rembrandt, I love how the lighting comes from within the frame.

Yes these were sony cards and both had the problem. Although the take was intact up until the error.

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has encountered codec errors with the alexa, I had a shoot this past week where after about 1 minute the camera would stop recording display a codec error and would require a re-boot. It was very annoying and cost us time. This occured when the Camera was recording to 64g SxS cards @ 60 fps on a high speed enabled alexa. Our solution was to go 422, that seemed to solve the problem.

thanks

Jesse

wow 12k per day.

don't forget set design! which I feel is one of the most important aspects.

Very nice, really enjoyed the exterior work.

I just had a shoot in the desert with one of these cameras, it was a nightmare in 100+ degree heat.

Can someone please explain what you are trying to accomplish when you rate stock at a lower iso than what it is, or when you underexpose and then set your printer lights higher to compensate, I can't quite understand the techniques involved or what the process actually accomplishes. A few examples would be nice.

Thank you

jesse

good job I enjoyed the film, I dont know if it was intentional or not but some of the close ups looked rather flat with a lot of dead space, cool stuff though.

Thank you all for the excellent comments and examples, I see now how contrast plays a role in creating these types of scenes, by the way i love conrad hall's work on that film, ive watched it quite a few times now!!

thanks jesse

Ive been wondering how it is one would light a scene to produce something like apocalypse now in the cave scene or lighting so that the subject has a very low lit light on him/her. Would you light the subject with plenty of light, then get a correct exposure, and then stop down to a desired level or is there another way? Im thinking along the lines of Gordon Willis where the scene is way underexsposed, is that him lighting the scene with plenty of light and then stoping down the lense or what?

example: light subject, ambient meter says 5.6 (middle gray) then stop down 2 stops to dark gray?

any help would be much appreciated

thanks

jesse