Whats Been going on?
Well as per usual i have left the old blog to gather dust.
I have been working with a group of still photographers who are interested in cinematography. The possibilities that cameras like the 5Dmark2 the 7D and the new rebel t2i offer have excited many dedicated stills guys to merge into the video market. For one such group i have been acting as a middle man between the two worlds. Its been great fun working with these photographers and i think that some of there working practices could certainly benefit the video shooting world. One thing right off the bat that stills guys are boggled about is the lack of true color accuracy in the video world. Cameras that don’t shoot in a recognizable spectrum, post production monitoring and the likes. In the stills world color accuracy from camera to final delivery is critical. It has made me really evaluate how i manage color in my work. I have also had to give the dedicated stills guys a bit of crap from time to time. It is in the nature of the experienced still photographer to be very macro focused about everything in the frame at all times. There has been more that one experience on set with a still photographer as the cinematographer where we spent hours finessing a single shot when we needed to move forward. Still photographers think about telling a story in one frame and sometimes neglect thinking about how the performance of the actors and combination of many shots tell the story. Its not that i think that they need to abandon there attention to detail but limit it to a point that will allow them to be productive in the independent film making arena. You sometimes have to make sacrifices to keep on schedule, its just the nature of the low budget film world. I have however worked as misc. crew on a production that was poorly manage and poorly executed and in my opinion a fiasco. When ever i give the stills guys too much crap they always remind me of that project. The creativity and enthusiasm that this group of photographers brings to the world of film making is exciting and i look forward to seeing how it influences and integrates with the motion world.
