Peter Mosiman

Steel Blue is a fantastic alternative for a moonlight effect. It carries a little green within the blue which takes the edge off the blue IMO. But again, like everyone's said before, it all depends on what you're looking for. It's also extremely helpful to experiment and test with all kinds of kelvin temp's while your light source is up, so you can get a feel for what temperatures do what to the colors. It's fascinating really.

I just recently used a whole bunch of the Mole's. I ran 19 babyLEDs off of 2 20a stingers. It was really great given the constraints of the location we were shooting in. I was using all daylight ones so I can't comment on the "white-ness" of their tungsten brothers, but the daylight color seem consistent and pretty nice looking. My only qualm with them is that they don't pack quite the punch/per fixture you would hope or think they would have. It's fairly close to their tungsten "equivalent", but not quite. As you can tell below, I was pretty stoked on how much power all that light pulled.

Jack Cardiff too. The documentary on him (Cameraman, The Life of Jack Cardiff) blew my mind. He did things that were so incredibly simple and brilliant at the same time. It's almost that there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about some of the things he did. Stupid smart.

Deakins and David Boyd (who shot the first 2 seasons of Friday Night Lights which, IMO, has the most ballsy cinematography I've ever seen on TV).

Ben, if you can't do artificial lighting, try and make sure that you can at least choose where they sit. Next to windows for the natural daylight is the best solution, but you can at least do your best to sit them in a place in the room where the subjects wont have raccoon eyes. cheers

My favorite shots of yours were from 1:48 to 1:52... I was impressed with the stuff you've shot. It seems like you do a lot of steadycam work. Is this the case or do you do a lot of smoothcam in post?

Just thought I'd update everyone by letting you all know that this film won multiple awards last night at DePaul University's (where I go to school) end of the year film festival. We won Best Cinematography and Best in Show (by popular vote of the audience). I am extremely pleased with these honors and plan on entering it into many more festivals with the rest of my fellow filmmakers.

Thanks Luke, all the best!

hahah lmao. :lol: I think I will take this into account next time I need a car mount.

Hey everyone. I've been working on this project for my HD Cinematography class for the last 8 weeks or so...thought that I would show it off here as I am very proud of it. Plus I also know that this is a CINEMATOGRAPHY forum. :P Just wait until I get my Scarlet...this is just to demonstrate my potential! :D Let me know how you like it yo's! http://www.vimeo.com/4971318

You are correct Ziryab. Just to back you up... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/technical

you could also go the 5dmII route for the 35mm dof look.

now they just need to create a solid pair of 3D glasses for real cheap. =]

Not gonna lie. The last couple of films I have seen in the theaters have just be horribly taken care of and I was so distracted by all of the imperfections of the print that I could not get excited about the movies I went to see. Now I know thats not the films fault, but I have seen a couple of digital projections recently (Slumdog, Crank) and both looked perfect ( the whole movie and I loved it. I personally have only seen 2K digital projections and not 4K but I would love to see one soon. Anyone know if there are any in Chicago?

get as big of bounce cards/film core as you can and bounce it from the street to the in shade part (in the pic, <--referring to the morning shoot), but I personally see nothing wrong with using that shade to your advantage. it would be a good way to show a subtle lapse of time. also, for your close up shots you can use some chinese lanterns to provide the fill/key you'd need. also, for when the sun shines directly on you...you can use nd's/grads to stop it down. what are you shooting with? whats the story, mood, etc....as that also makes a big difference.

I personally do not have any professional experience in the field yet as I am still a student, but I wanted to say thank you for putting this out there. I think its important to be treated as a professional and I know that this doesn't always happen (at least its what I've heard) and I don't like to pick fights or even finish them so I am not looking forward to this aspect of the biz but knowing there are more people out there that haven't succumbed to it makes me hopeful for my future.

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Thanks Adrian. I appreciate the honesty and the detail in which the lighting would be more interesting. I have gotten some other feedback about their needing to be more contrast between the talent and the background. I will be working on that as well as trying to find more interesting ways of pulling off emotion with lighting. Sometimes feedback can be too much to take in at once...then I remember that I have so much time to get better at it and every project that I do from now on will get better and better. :lol:

Awesome. Took awhile to figure out what was going on.

Its pretty good mate. If you look at the link posted in my signature (B.L.P.) you could see a website that was also made in iWeb but has a very unique (not themed look from iWeb) and it was just built in photoshop and imported into iWeb as .png files. Simple and straightforward and it looks great. I did not create the website but I am a BLP member. I honestly think it is a sleek site and could use a little publicity. I think that if you wanted to make your site a little more original and unique, definitely try to design something in photoshop and see how it works overall. I think you'd be surprised with what you come up with. :lol:

I agree pretty much with all that you said. The first time I saw it, I went into the theater with absolutely zero expectations because I'd never heard of it before. When it ended, my jaw was wide open, I could not believe how moved I was by the story, the unique way of telling the story, and the absolutely stunning color the film had. Half of the time I was drooling over shots that were very wide...such as the one of the "beach" where they were all doing their laundry and the range of color in that shot just floored me. (I know I sound like a fanboy, and I probably am, but in all honesty, the movie really made me feel this way and I am more than okay with that). I mean, there were so many good things that I liked about the cinematography that its hard to pinpoint just a few things because I really did love the whole film. Very moving piece that really made me feel like I was experiencing their lives without intruding on them. I feel that this is due to a lot of the camera angles and overall cinematography of the film. I saw it a second time, and this time I was paying more attention to the details and I could not help but just want to freeze frame half the movie and be like, god that is beautiful.

I have been practicing for a year and a half and I finally made something that I think has some merit. (Of course, I'm not constantly filming, but still, all the practice makes perfect comments are true. I guess I just never understood that practice also means heck-o-lotta time. haha Zimmer works the same wonders on me. Very inspiring music. :lol:

So everyone, I know that I am not a big poster here but I am working on becoming more involved and sharing in the knowledge pool that this forum has. I figured that I would learn some more about the style of lighting that I want my pieces to have so that I have something to show to back up my statements. I finally shot something that I am proud of. Please take a look and "constructively" criticize as I love hearing what other people think or how they feel about the piece. LINK!...Enjoy.

Agreed. :lol:

I understand how he constantly reuses it can be frustrating but there is something about it that always works. I love it personally. I just get my other looks from other films. Ha, that sounds weird, but hopefully you get it.