Aaron Solomon

When you light for a feature, do you often follow the key-fill-hair light trio, or just dump light on the scene artistically?

If you look at a color wheel, magenta is opposite green. By using hair lights with magenta on them, you make it easier to differentiate the people from the background, and not have greenspill on them....That's what I think anyway.

Wow that really opened my mind. I've never really thought of it like that. At this point I've had color temperature drilled into me so much sometimes I forget about the actually colors haha. Thanks Adrian.

But what about the actual shot? Like sometimes a picture is just ugly and its colors are whacked and is that mainly a resolution thing?

Ok. So sort of manipulate beauty/ugliness to achieve what you want?

So based on the mood you want to convey to an audience?

OK Thanks Adrian. If only I didn't have school to fill up my day haha...I'll try to get out there and make some stuff. I'm working on a remake of Cabaret that we almost have the rights too but we'll see how that works out. I'm probably shooting on a DVX-100A and some VX-2000's so it'll be fun trying to make anything look pretty but I'll enjoy it haha. Thanks.

Hey, So we all know what the difference between SD and HD and 4K looks like, but I'd get murdered if I attributed too much of a film's look to the resolution in which it's shot. I've shot a lot of SD, but mainly event stuff, and I've only shot HD twice. When it comes down to making a film pretty, especially in the digital age, how many of you actually take out a light/color meter and set your F-stop based on that or gel lights based on the color temperature reading you're getting? How do people judge which filters to put on? Experience? I mean besides simple stuff like a polarizer going on in daylight. I know that HD and anything in 4K improves upon SD drastically, but what keeps even an HD shoot from looking like a kid movie with weird colors? I guess that's my real question. How much of it is resolution and type of sensor vs. the F-stop you're setting at (I know that probably doesn't have anything to do with color) and everything else? Thanks, Aaron

If I knew, I'd gladly tell haha. I'll try to find out but it's a really consumer camera that doesn't belong to me and FCP is accepting the 1080P30 and 720P30, just not the 720P60, so I was wondering if FCP didn't like that frame rate or something.

Hi all, I have 720p 60fps footage to import into final cut from a small kodak camera. It's giving me an error message for that, but not for the 1080p footage I'm also importing. Do I need to convert the footage somehow? Thanks, Aaron

Thanks!

I just have a question, when you're planning out a shot, do you actually take into account angle of view? and do you use a light meter when you're shooting digital? or just play it by eye?

Thanks for everything by the way.

Sorry I know this is off the topic, but about field of view, how is that determined? What affects it? Are the different distances between objects that we apparently see when lenses have different focal lengths results of changes in field of view?

You shot that in one and a half hours? It's beautiful. Did you do any color correction?

So ideally we want a huge sensor to cram tons of pixels on for high resolution and make the sensor big enough that the pixels are still large enough to be hit by photons?

I thought focal length was the distance from the back of the lens to the film/CCD? Not the object being filmed, which is what you seem to be saying.

So aside from being able to cram more pixel's on a larger sensor, what's the advantage of having a larger sensor? Depth of field? And what about having more pixels? Why not smaller pixels on a larger sensor to produce a "finer" image? Thanks, Aaron

Thanks! Aaron

Ok so I know this post isn't really HD specific but no one commented anywhere else so here we go: Hi all, I hear about gamma and alpha channels often, could someone explain them to me? Also could someone help me with color curves? Thanks, Aaron

Hi all, I hear about gamma and alpha channels often, could someone explain them to me? Also could someone help me with color curves? Thanks, Aaron

And that's only in 360 on youtube.

Wow that looks amazing.

What are you shooting on?

I haven't used it myself but according to CNET it doesn't have great night time performance. http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/videocams/0,39050560,39083763p,00.htm <EDIT: The link doesn't seem to be working, but CNET said "The Bad: Average night time performance"> Aaron