Aleksandra Miklowska

Hello, I am posting with a pressing question: I am shooting mattes on hi con film today, so just cardboard as the matte, placed in a matte box, and the the white will be the matte when I get the reverse. I need the white to NOT blow out because then it will affect the edges of my matte, making them fuzzy instead of a nice crisp look which is what I'm going for. I understand that the words "hi con" and "blow out" don't usually go hand in hand but I have heard of this happening to people when shooting titles, because they didn't use a spot meter, they ended up with "glowing" titles, or fuzzy titles. I realize this is because they were essentially shooting a lightbox, which is emitting light, therefore something completely different, but is it possible that the white cardboard I'm shooting against will blow out similarly from reflecting enough light to affect the hi con film. Or can I just expose for the reading I got of light hitting the white cardboard and be fine? Any help greatly appreciated! -Alex Miklowski

Hi all Just joined the community as I have a pressing question: Has anyone shot on print or internegative stock before? I imagine it to be a wonderful world of ridiculously low rating, extreme high contrast, like shooting high con film, but with the added pleasure of awesome color saturation. BUT I hear that the pitch on print stocks is slightly different since they're intended to go through a printer instead of a camera. Does this mean the sprocket holes would be too far or too close to go through a camera properly? Any ideas or advice about this? Thanks