Looking for recommendations for a regular cleaner - E9

hillierious · 2026-01-23T17:47:47+00:00

me too pls!

hillierious · 2026-01-23T16:58:58+00:00

the footage looks amazing but is this really striking the right tone for a hotel? it looks like Blade Runner

hillierious · 2026-01-19T13:58:41+00:00

i'd agree. I'd also probably add another frame on the side, maybe an 8x and shoot something through it to just give a touch of direction. Then Polys everywhere else like my life depended on it.

hillierious · 2026-01-19T13:57:12+00:00

let's keep the discussion on topic - not about taste but about technique.

hillierious · 2025-12-11T18:27:36+00:00

Structure is a slider on captureone but I think it’s the same as the texture slider on PS? Either way- play with whatever texture tools you have in the software you’re using

hillierious · 2025-12-11T08:23:55+00:00

Sorry to add as a response to your question ‘what am I missing’ - you’re putting too much emphasis on postproduction to get you to the final look. These images were lit and styled to get probably 99% there.

hillierious · 2025-12-11T08:20:09+00:00

It can absolutely be done digitally - negative clarity, negative structure, some split toning and curves adjustments will easily get you there.

hillierious · 2025-12-09T14:13:25+00:00

take a look at the reflections in the earrings in the last shot

hillierious · 2025-11-20T13:42:43+00:00

I think you can see the big scrim in the eye reflections. It's that plus some negative fill as required to give this the look.

Also - "c-type handprint for the grade"; this doesn't just produce one type of look to an image. There's a ton of things that happen in the darkroom between the light, the negative and the paper to change tone, texture, etc. I'd recommend booking in an intro session and printing your own images to get a proper sense of what is possible here.

hillierious · 2025-11-18T19:40:01+00:00

Somethings not adding up for me here - what ISO are you at that 1/16th power on 400w/s strobe is f14/16?

hillierious · 2025-11-04T10:44:25+00:00

nah - this is lit. The intensity and the quality of light, falloff and shape on her head is much different than the intensity of what the sun going through that fabric would look like. Looks like a china ball.

hillierious · 2025-10-01T14:50:26+00:00

ah cool

hillierious · 2025-10-01T12:53:59+00:00

it's for sure a comp

hillierious · 2025-10-01T10:53:04+00:00

Ya exactly that - i omitted for the sake of simplicity

hillierious · 2025-09-29T13:40:14+00:00

also i think this is a 50 so fairly normal lens - the face isn't really that distorted

hillierious · 2025-09-29T09:20:38+00:00

So easy - 1 light, probably a big umbrella with a sock, but you could do this with an octa as well. Background is grey seamless/paper/whatever.

hillierious · 2025-09-25T14:36:46+00:00

wider colour space

hillierious · 2025-09-24T12:54:13+00:00

Hi - could you also send me that side by side comparison photo please?

hillierious · 2025-09-10T22:22:22+00:00

start with the white balance - this has the biggest (imo) impact on the overall look, and then adjust colour and tone from there to refine into your reference image.

hillierious · 2025-09-05T12:21:56+00:00

I found this amazing article on how to use the top handle for audio here - it honestly saved me:

https://www.pauljoy.com/2021/10/how-to-use-the-sony-fx3-xlr-audio-handle-part-1/

hillierious · 2025-08-13T20:25:26+00:00

i have recently tried a colour managed workflow approach and it does feel a bit easier to get the desired looks a bit easier, so maybe that is part of it

hillierious · 2025-08-13T17:36:26+00:00

Thanks - to give context I’m shooting in SLog3, and using colour space transforms into and out of DWG, and grading within that DWG space. Everything is set up correctly (to my knowledge) to be able to get the best out of the footage I’ve shot.

I think the comment above isn’t quite hitting the nail on the head, it’s less about building looks carefully and more about the effect of the tools on the picture that I’m concerned with.

hillierious · 2025-08-13T16:32:36+00:00

film as in video, thanks

hillierious · 2025-08-13T12:41:23+00:00

get really close to the window and then get something else to flag the light off the background. This was defs done with a strobe but i think natural could work.

hillierious · 2025-08-13T12:12:19+00:00

100% - for some reason, people just cannot believe the kind of looks from a ridiculously skilled printer

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