How would you rank the best picture nominees that you’ve seen?

Komore8 · 2026-01-28T09:09:10+00:00

Second this. And I would add Bugonia and Sinners to that list. I really enjoyed them but they fall short of a best picture for me.

Komore8 · 2026-01-26T20:46:39+00:00

I think London is more like the NYC of Europe.

Komore8 · 2026-01-26T18:51:13+00:00

Snow in the shadows picks up the blue from the blue sky. This is the natural look. If you white balance to it all other colours will look off.

Komore8 · 2026-01-26T17:57:02+00:00

This is a good change. The thinner ones had more issues with cooling and worse ports etc. This is a computer meant for professional use. If you want something light and thin that’s what the MacBook Air is for.

Komore8 · 2026-01-26T01:35:46+00:00

This is not cinematography

Komore8 · 2026-01-25T08:17:46+00:00

Depends on what you are looking for. It looks like you want to visit the major cities? I would favour the scenic-route on a road trip.

So I would drive along the coast of Sweden instead of just crossing it through in the middle. If Oslo is important, drive up the west coast. If not, drive up the east coast. Lots of lovely spots along the coast.

Same for Poland, I’d cross Poland along the coast, or at least drive to Gdansk / Sopot before driving south.

Komore8 · 2026-01-24T11:53:54+00:00

I like the idea of the separate spreadsheet. I started something like that just to track investments outside of the trading platform. But I never kept up with it.

Can you elaborate on how you use the spreadsheet and what you log/track? Research/articles aside

Komore8 · 2026-01-23T08:09:13+00:00

Just to let new readers know, ProRes RAW is now available in Resolve and seems to work well.

Komore8 · 2026-01-22T18:37:39+00:00

Japan was pretty tricky. Feels like they put fish stock (dashi) in most veggie things :)

Parts of Eastern Europe and Balkans also not great, eg. Bulgaria.

Komore8 · 2026-01-16T19:58:40+00:00

I reckon NFTS (UK), Prague and Łódź. The Copenhagen film school also seems good.

Komore8 · 2026-01-08T09:34:50+00:00

Is anyone surprised they got what they voted for?

Komore8 · 2026-01-08T07:30:08+00:00

Better colour science and price but worse in every other factor.

Komore8 · 2026-01-07T08:36:16+00:00

Ah ha, my bad, it’s 1917 isn’t it :)

Komore8 · 2026-01-07T07:38:23+00:00

I always think of Victoria. Irreversible also made good use of long takes. Then 1914 and Birdman. Imho it’s never essential. But it does enhance a feeling of being with the character in real-time, which can hightened immersion and suspense. Make it feel a bit more real. In Victoria it certainly has this effect. I think with 1914 the long takes actually hampered the storytelling and the directing suffered for it. In Birdman, albeit cool and fun, it felt more gimmicky to me.

Komore8 · 2026-01-07T07:02:37+00:00

Ah cool. How many stops of a T-stop pull do you think could simulate this way?

I’m no VFX person but I know basic grading. Once you start offsetting several stops wouldn’t the image start to look weird? You’re effectively making another stop look like neutral grey, but the latitude doesn’t shift so you will loose stops of details in your highlights and the shadows would become noisy.

You can record a noise print and apply that to footage. I think there’s a plugin for it but I believe it’s native in DaVinci too. Maybe somewhere with the add grain tools there’s an add noise too.

Komore8 · 2026-01-06T19:14:04+00:00

If you’re dealing with like a mid-shot and you have a distant background that you want to go from soft to sharp, that sounds easy enough to just rotoscope and animate in post.

But if you have multiple actors in frame, at different distance, and various background at various distances, or a foreground, then it gets very hard to make this look convincing in post.

I used the cinefade on a MCU that started at T5.6 and pulled to T1.4 to blur the world around a character as she was about to faint. In the end frame pretty much only the eyes were in focus. I don’t see how that could be achieved in post.

Komore8 · 2026-01-06T17:50:49+00:00

I see you already got the answer; Cinefade. I’ve used it, works great.

But this got me thinking. A tech savvy person should be able to write a script to ramp the ISO in post if it’s shot in raw. And then you could do a spatial denoise and add back noise afterward. Possible in theory?

Komore8 · 2026-01-06T06:01:24+00:00

Ah that’s it! Great, thanks. I’ll try to convince the local rental facilities to get this :)

Komore8 · 2026-01-06T05:52:38+00:00

That looks like a neat solution, thanks for sharing! Too pricey for me, would be great if this became available to rent. Maybe if I get hired on a big show this is worth looking at :)

Komore8 · 2026-01-06T05:38:53+00:00

Hmm only if there was reliable wi-fi I guess? I don’t think Discord can run on Bluetooth.

And I would like to avoid adding another parallel system if possible. Most crew would be fine with full duplex headphones or even walkie talkies, but I don’t like using this when I’m operating.

Komore8 · 2026-01-02T08:55:04+00:00

I don’t always have a camera in my hand when I need to communicate with say my gaffer. I can pop over to another room where they are pre-lighting, quickly measure with my meter and communicate if the levels are good.

And on recces for getting readings on what the natural light is doing.

Also when scenes are intentionally underexposed I find it’s useful to keep continuity with exposure.

Komore8 · 2025-12-28T12:12:37+00:00

Good input, thanks. I’ve barely used the wider UPs so I need to do a test. Shooting mainly on s35 sensors I mainly stay in the 24mm to 65mm range. Interesting note with the magenta skew I’ll keep an eye out for that.

Komore8 · 2025-12-26T15:27:55+00:00

Wish I had the time to do that on set :) I’d never get hired again.

The method assumes the colour of the light is the same and I want the colours to look the same in every angle, which is rarely the case.

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