Stephen Perera

......I would encourage you to use Eastman Double X as its beautiful to my eyes.....see my posts or watch a piece I did with it in this link: a good way is go into photoshop....open a colour image...use a Black and White adjustment layer (layers palette).......that simulates the filters and what effects they have on greyscale images

I don't think....I know!!!!! hahahahahah try ur best grading yes...and yes....pure pure pure pure luck

you HAVE TO LOAD in darkness.......thats the answer! footage is super cool love it....long live our beloved film!!!

Pentax Spotmatic.....my old British passport......old maps i have.....old tourist office pen.....old postcards from that era......original suitcase from that era that was my uncle's.....I styled him myself...went shopping at ZARA for his clothes...point Im making....just go out there and shoot and have fun!.

props all mine hahah....one man band

...and some fun shots to add..... Basically I'm shooting 16mm for local clients whom I talk into shooting film and having a LOT of fun pretending Im one of you guys, the real cinematographers

....and he sees the beach......(this is where he has his SUP business)

......so he falls asleep....and dreams has back in the 70s or 60s

...so here's another fun piece Im working on with a friend of mine who has a Stand Up Paddle business.....we shot a self mocking 'dream sequence'...he is out paddling then comes back in takes a nap and he dreams of being back in the 60s/70s and getting to Gibraltar for the first time and seeing the beach where he's gonna set up his business

great shots of the best 16mm camera system....Aaton!

Tarantino used it in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Hey Karim...the compression has killed the beauty of the grain......will happily send it out to anyone interested once I know what Im doing with it and I lock the final edit with the correct 'thank yous' etc etc.....H265 output is small files and good quality for example The edit and title cards DaVinci Resolve 16 (free version)...somebody tried to convince me to add fake film glitch on the text but i thought too gimmicky....some said text too sharp and again....I thought the compression will take the edge off anyway so not an issue

hope you watched the clip on Vimeo...thanks for the responses

Thanks for watching Dan...the first person haha.....em I don't know what to do with it.....local Government or local support groups for the cause are interested in it without seeing it yet........dont know whether they would want to water it down or change it so Im hesitant as I want to do it as I see it..... I simply did it as a personal statement.....i.e. bought the film, shot it, sent it to Cinelab London and paid all associated costs from my own pocket as like what they call a 'passion project'

Thanks for all the comments...appreciate the positivity.....Watch the piece here Password: violence

Password: violence

So its sort of ready......perhaps some of you would be kind enough to watch and see what you think....needs audio to be up......it's a piece against violence to women.....dont know what Im going to do with it yet....local Government interested in it but don't want to compromise or water it down.....local support groups as well.....

I shot 16mm 100ft rolls of 50D, 250D and Double X, some rolls of these many months ago, kept it in the fridge...sent it to UK a few weeks ago to Cinelab London...went through 2 hand luggage X-rays in airports and the film came back great....

Hey Tyler, yes this new footage is to go with the other footage I bored you all with last time.....the Governor's Residence Banquet hall was unavailable for filming as the roof had to be taken off for replacement so the whole thing was delayed for me for like 6 months......still, i insisted I had to film in there to elevate the final product as we can see Gibraltar Crystal product in use in Gibraltar's most famous (one of) buildings and tourists....especially Americans...love anything to do with British Royal family and all the rest of it...... oh and yes I know the candles went a bit wonky on the stills I attached earlier as I did my dolly track move up the 8m long table......I was shooting ONE 100ft roll of 250D in there and was at literally 1:1 ratio get it right and move on to next shot....the film discipline so to speak as I see it when there are no 'people' in there

...and now the 500T stock...yes I'm left-eyed and i go lop-sided a bit when I frame up hahah. I shoot Hasselblad film system for pro jobs and my horizon is em suspect at times!

this shows the famous KEYS of Gibraltar....back then the fortress of the Rock was secured by 4 main gates!

and another why not heh heh

...shot at the Governor of Gibraltar's residence inside the historic Banquet Hall with the table set up with Gibraltar Crystal (my client) crystalware.....obviously I was inspired in terms of the lighting I set up inside by Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) and I did a rack focus inspired by but nowhere near as cool as Hagen Bogdanski did in The Young Victoria....

...so this is the other project Im doing....some of it I've posted before but here is new stuff....I think its always useful to see footage stills to see the look and vibe of 16mm

I particularly like the tones in this still.....as I said Im not even near being a cinematographer like the rest of you here but in my opinion digital just doesn't do B/W like film.....