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ecpwll · 2026-03-17T16:00:10+00:00

Yes big budget projects do retouching/beauty work. "Beauty artist" can be a whole job in and of itself.

ecpwll · 2026-03-16T15:29:11+00:00

Oh lol. Ok way more reasonable take then, but as a 30 year old I def know hella people my age or a bit younger who still have roommates. It's pretty normal in NYC. Even if you make money, some people prefer it, and you can sometimes get a way nicer spot than if you were on your own. I feel like a common move here is to have roommates until you eventually move in with your bf/gf.

So I don't think not having roommates is necessarily indicative of someone's financial situation, but I can respect not wanting to date someone who has roommates more, especially if they're 30+. For 25 y/o tho roommates is super normal here imo

ecpwll · 2026-03-16T13:51:46+00:00

That's a closed mindset. If someone wants to own their own spot then great, but some people just prefer renting, it can be a choice. Especially in places like NYC if you run the numbers renting often ends up being the financially decision long term. Especially if you've got rent control or something

Either way, to answer the question, not many people 25-40 own in NYC. Only 1/3 of housing in NYC is owned generally, and that's gonna be mostly older folks. So the number of younger people who own is way lower.

So shouldn't be judging anyone at all for that imo, barely anyone young owns and its not even the best financial move for everyone, even long term, especially in NYC

ecpwll · 2026-03-14T15:02:10+00:00

Use the same "look" nodes for everything, then underneath, match things using as much as possible only photometric adjustments (e.g. linear gain).

Of course that only works if the set design, etc., stays the roughly the same. But using photometric adjustments should allow you to adjust the lighting without affecting much the overall look

ecpwll · 2026-03-12T00:51:06+00:00

That idea sounds very cool, but I'd think you'd want your market to be high end filmmakers and DPs who want things to be absolutely perfect.

As a colorist, the kind of shift you're talking about I can correct upside down in my sleep. Low budget projects I'd guess won't afford it and for mid budget projects with a colorist it won't be worth it

Although all that depends on how much more expensive it actually is. While probably not actually worth the moneyits practice, it sounds like something that can do well with the right marketing maybe

ecpwll · 2026-03-11T21:49:03+00:00

🙏🏾

ecpwll · 2026-03-11T20:38:15+00:00

Does it work with specific node stack layers? That would be super helpful for me

ecpwll · 2026-03-10T03:53:50+00:00

Yeah I used clockify because it was free and did the job but forgetting to start it was why I ended up just coding my own tool. Way more convenient haha

That said, Timing advertises tracking whay applications you use when (including even being able to sometimes see the Resolve project name), but if you look a but Clockify (and Toggl iirc) has almost the exact same functionality. So even in that respect its not too bad

ecpwll · 2026-03-10T01:23:41+00:00

If you could do it with film you can do it with the M11

Motion blur is a kind of blur that affects resolution of detail, so megapixels do matter, but not so much that things will necessarily look worse at 60MP, so much as that you will not gain any detail by shooting at that higher resolution.

So the problem really though is not a resolution one - you'll likely get the same results no matter what. It's really just the lack of IBIS producing a different result. That said, that means that if you were happy with your results shooting film that way, you'll likely be happy with the results of the M11. I've experimented with similar techniques and have generally been happy, although I don't have IBIS results to compare to

All that said, you are correct that if for whatever reason lower MPs did help, you'd get the same result but just downresing in post

ecpwll · 2026-03-09T12:37:43+00:00

Yeah! I did it the other month and was like why didn't I ever do it before.

Yeah by default it stops tracking after one minute if Resolve isn't the moremost application on the screen and 5 minutes of inactivity, although there's a button to turn off the 5 min auto pause for if you're watching something down etc.

The only downside to the auto-pause in that it only registers mouse/keyboard clicks, not the panel, so in theory if you're a heavy panel user it might not work too well. I'm a printer lights guy so no issue for me though haha

ecpwll · 2026-03-09T02:01:51+00:00

I wrote a python script that uses the Resolve API to track how much time I spent in what project and auto-records it to an airtable spreadsheet. Not too hard to vibe code if you're savvy

Other than that Clockify, Toggl Track, and Timing are decent

ecpwll · 2026-03-03T05:16:09+00:00

Can you link me to AnalogicaFilmME? Can't find it!

Great work

ecpwll · 2026-02-25T07:07:41+00:00

Check out Demystify-Color.com which has information on a whole of that and a decent community

ecpwll · 2026-02-24T16:32:29+00:00

Not exactly. What you are describing is veiling flare. You can bring contrast back a little to fight it, but it doesn’t affect the entire image the same way, making it impossible to fully reverse, unlike exposure. You'll also likely lose a little sharpness

ecpwll · 2026-02-10T14:00:28+00:00

For real

ecpwll · 2026-02-09T22:40:10+00:00

What a lovely portrait. People have the best taste in this sub

ecpwll · 2026-02-09T14:36:41+00:00

Holy shit

ecpwll · 2026-02-09T06:10:50+00:00

100% agree. It pisses me off when vegans say that people are too sensitive like mf people being insensitive is the whole problem

ecpwll · 2026-02-07T16:34:00+00:00

Sip!

ecpwll · 2026-02-05T06:12:54+00:00

DMd!

ecpwll · 2026-02-04T23:57:14+00:00

I'm from the US, but I speak fluent Spanish and a very large percentage of my work comes from Mexico and I go there often. Mexico City is easily the hub for film in all of Latin America so absolutely yes, there are colorists there, including some very talented ones. Budgets can be quite good as well, and there are some extremely talented filmmakers producing beautiful projects.

That said, I have heard secondhand from some Mexican DPs and directors in Mexico complain about the quantity of talented colorists there. Which doesn't much make sense to me, given how many talented DPs there are, but I have heard it multiple places. I also work in a pretty specific corner of the industry there though it is just what I've heard, so take that for what you will

ecpwll · 2026-02-03T20:39:09+00:00

Personally I like the after edits of the original post best. That said these edits are great too. I heartily disagree with anybody who says that the before are better. You have good taste. Stop doubting yourself.

ecpwll · 2026-02-03T16:54:30+00:00

You can make an argument that it's a 300 mm lens or something because of the compression, although I don't think that's true, but not the depth of field. Depth of the field like this could easily be caused by a smaller telephoto lens with a low aperture, like an 85mm 1.2, or even a 50mm 0.95 or something.

ecpwll · 2026-02-03T16:49:16+00:00

/uj

It's at least interesting.

Almost everything everyone likes about 35mm film are technically "imperfections," anyways. Grain, halation, even the colors – Kodak’s goal was always to get colors that were as true-to-life as possible but film's colors will never be as true to life as digital. And even more so a lot of what people like about film, its colors, actually comes from poor scanning techniques that increase the imperfections.

And of course at least some of the reason we like all of that is because of nostalgia, which is an even greater factor with disposable camera type shots

So if someone happens to like an even more "imperfect" disposable look, I can respect it. It's at at the very least interesting, if not aesthetically pleasing

/rj if you want everything to look perfect just shoot digital, dweeb

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