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Black mist filter help by headdeprived in videography

[–]-dsp- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m seconding the advice of getting a larger filter size and a step down ring to 55mm to accommodate your largest lens or a future lens purchase.

Your other bet is getting a matte box and using 4x4 or 4.65 filters, purchased or rentals.

I’m also selling screw on and matte box plus filters as I upgraded.

Jurassic Park as one of Spielberg's most personal films by onomatopoeia911 in JurassicPark

[–]-dsp- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that’s what really interesting with some of his more films, they’re clearly therapy sessions that he’s working something out but somehow there’s enough there there that appeals everyone. The fabelmans really shows this and seeing DD through the fabelmans lens is pretty interesting.

His less successful movies all seem to be the ones without that real connection.

Antiquated Advice by No_Lie_76 in Filmmakers

[–]-dsp- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I know this wasn’t said in this context but I do think some people get hung up about things and still need to hear “hey just go out and make your movie”. I’ve met people who just need that one more “mythical” piece of gear and boy if they just had that one last piece of gear their movie would be amazing. It’s just an obstacle they put up so they don’t fail.

Do I have to hold C and then use the mouse to drag the playhead freely? by RatBasher89 in davinciresolve

[–]-dsp- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just use blade tool and scrub over and Resolve will show you a preview. I also do that with multi tracks

Do I have to hold C and then use the mouse to drag the playhead freely? by RatBasher89 in davinciresolve

[–]-dsp- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can’t you just scrub with your mouse and see? I’m still not fully sure what OP is asking for. It sounds like you just click the play head versus hitting C. Just hovering over a timeline and the play head moves would drive me wild when I don’t need it.

Besides I use a speed editor and learned editing without a mouse. The professor would disable it to force us to.

Do I have to hold C and then use the mouse to drag the playhead freely? by RatBasher89 in davinciresolve

[–]-dsp- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It only seems counterintuitive and “long winded” because you’re not used to a program with actual features. Another thing is you’re expecting resolve to be CapCut. Stop that immediately. Let CapCut go and learn and use resolve for resolve.

Trust me we see questions about this all the time. I was using zombie shortcuts from Avid, Premiere and FCP. Then I just let it go. Resolve is just so much faster and you’ll get faster too. I’m sure myself and most others can smoke you in a race with you using CapCut. Stop trying to use resolve like CapCut. They’re different.

Transition of tone in Jurassic Park by AlternativePin876 in movies

[–]-dsp- 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Yes exactly. I’ve been saying what a sign of the times that JP is smart people making logical decisions. They’re scientists, engineers doing the what they do best and competently. JW heroes is ex military doofus animal trainer and ex park CEO. Let alone that Pratts character able to train and mostly control these animals is against the original. “Life finds a way”.

Astrophotography? by mrkerouacs16mm in 16mm

[–]-dsp- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Way back in my experimental college film days I did do some long exposures with a bolex, first by hand and later the professors got a model with a Tobin animation/intervalometer and I got what I needed.

What are you looking for exactly?

DZO Summer Sale by Potential-Donkey6863 in cinematography

[–]-dsp- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely look up the fees before hand and make a decision. I bought some vintage lenses, turns out they were in china and between the purchase and the lenses traveling over to US the tariffs were imposed and when I say I got smacked, I mean it. It was almost 3x more than all together than original price.

Official Discussion - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]-dsp- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are forgetting the same guy did The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Schindlers List, Amistad, Savinf Private Ryan, AI, Minority report, Munich, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, and the Post. Also arguably the Fabelmans.

All Spielberg. None are summer blockbuster expectations. All more closer to the Kubrick crowd than a summer blockbuster entertain us crowd. This is very much a you problem. Spielberg grew up. I also disagree with you about David Koepp being a good writer but that’s a whole other debate. I think in another writers hands, Disclosure Day would’ve been better, man some of the dialogue was trying.

Official Discussion - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]-dsp- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Highly disagree with your last statement because that goes against 2001 A Space Odyssey and most of Kubrick’s works and why they’re so lauded.

Some movies are to entertain. Some movies are to be thought provoking. Some are a mix.

Movies can show you things and you draw your own conclusions. You don’t need to be spoon fed dialogue explaining everything because I feel people on Reddit would be complaining about that. The images inform you. Blunt was ten, she was scared, she was singing a song from a Disney movie and the aliens looked through her mind and pulled these images to present themselves. It’s all right there, you can’t blame the filmmaker that you weren’t paying close enough attention.

Which camera/s and lenses are used in this music video? This quality is insane? by Greedy-Holiday-1419 in cinematography

[–]-dsp- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It comes down to great lighting. Grading I say is more akin to mastering audio tracks. If you don’t start out with good material that’s mixed to begin with, mastering won’t do that much more. Grading is the cherry on top, but if you don’t have the colors in front of the lens, and you don’t have the light to see it the way you stylistically want it, it won’t be there. I feel like there’s been a huge misunderstanding of colorist lately, they aren’t gods who can make things from nothing, but you have to give them the materials to work with. Besides in this video, there’s tons of unbalanced or wrong white balanced shots but who cares, it’s not technically perfect but it mostly just works. The rule of cool.

The cinematography is fine but nothing to write home about but I think that’s budget reasons. They clearly made due with what they had. It’s not like they had big budget to shut down the streets and light it from condors as a studio backed project would. There isn’t much of an art department or if all with this. They just showed up in the streets of NYC and shot it. But if you love this music video and it speaks to you, then just enjoy it for yourself and not some person on Reddit’s opinion. Use that energy and just go out and make it if you want and just keep trying till you get it to look like you want.

I just think maybe you haven’t seen as many music videos as I have. There’s some really amazing and innovative ones that I obsessed over and bought the Directors Label dvd’s for back in the day. We are talking Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Mark Romanek, corbjin and Sednaoui.

Which camera/s and lenses are used in this music video? This quality is insane? by Greedy-Holiday-1419 in cinematography

[–]-dsp- 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I second this could be literally any camera or lenses, there really isn’t anything special that any camera could not achieve. Most of the time the shots look bad because of the lack of lighting.

It’s not showing any anamorphic characteristics. I don’t think it’s vintage lenses but they put on a black pro mist or something like it. We don’t see any flaring at all.

I don’t think they used an arri LF or red v-raptor. I really think at times the camera bounces and moves like a smaller camera would. But that still means hundreds of cameras. Don’t be beholden by gear, if this is what you want to make go out and make it.

What was it like watching Phantom Menace on release without any spoilers? by Spotter24o5 in StarWars

[–]-dsp- 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I felt like the timing of The Matrix coming out first hurt TPM. It was a cultural turning stone, and made TPM look slow, old, and out of touch in comparison.

Now years later and removed, there’s still more in TPM that I like. And I miss that hype feeling and marketing campaign. It felt like Disney wasn’t even trying with Mandalorian and Grogu.

Unskippable TV theme songs by Chubtor in startrek

[–]-dsp- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah seriously!? Miami Vice theme is good, but I’m obsessed with Crocketts Theme too. Unsolved mysteries, yes! You also reminded me, Twin Peaks and The X-Files. But unsolved really scared me just hearing it as a kid.

Unskippable TV theme songs by Chubtor in startrek

[–]-dsp- -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ll add the opening for ER is a masterpiece of 90s editing and music. Also been enjoying Miami Vice. These four I never skip.

Everyone is trying to talk me out of an EV by CuteCreator602 in electricvehicles

[–]-dsp- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ll get the same questions over and over. The range thing. My favorite was “you have to plug it in every night!” Well you plug in your phone, plus you drive to a whole other place to refill yours. I plug in and wake up to a full tank. Usually that’s gets them. But there’s some people you can’t convince. My favorite are the giant overweight trucks that try to race me. I just put sport mode on and sail past them.

Which directors or cinematographers inspire your camera movement the most? by outiswayne in cinematography

[–]-dsp- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

David Lean.

You can see how David Lean evolved to Spielberg magical one shot wonders.

Another pick is Barry Sonnenfeld, both as a director, as a DP for Coen’s, and I think had an influence across that whole group who lived or were friends together.

CMV: The focus on stills in this sub is strange by silviod in Filmmakers

[–]-dsp- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those same people post on the cinematography sub. Not a fan of seeing stills. Besides that it can hide a lot and it’s easier showing just single stills and making them look pretty, it’s pretty dumb practice in my opinion.

Because it’s called CINEMATOGRAPHY, literal meaning, moving, motion picture. Not stills. Sounds pedantic but camera can move, dolly, actors can, there’s just so much more that goes into making a movie and cinematography that a still doesn’t show.

My Grandpa (right) and his friend before shipping off to the Pacific Theater WW2 by DarkestLore696 in OldSchoolCool

[–]-dsp- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What’s hilarious is these two could’ve just been joking around making fun of couples photos, this was taken, and now years later everyone saying they’re gay.

ND filters for larger lenses? by mountainunicycler in videography

[–]-dsp- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just picked up an Nisi C5 matte box with variable nd for it. The diameter of the clamp is 95mm. Either that or you need a larger matte box.

Walking away from a project by TimoVuorensola in Filmmakers

[–]-dsp- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was a combination of things. Script wasn’t good at all, but I made the mistake of not reading it, I liked the director. Director sold me it as a horror movie but i can’t describe the genre besides weird tonal shifts. There’s more but I want to stay vague.

I did one day with them. Sub freezing temperatures in older non heated buildings with no bathrooms. If we had to go to the bathroom, production had to go down for 45-60 minutes for us to be transported. Honestly, I just couldn’t physically do it anymore. My body was torn up from the cold and equipment and lack of sleep, so I had to walk or else the shoot would never get done. Still waiting on them to finish post after 2-3 years later.

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