r/cinematography

On August I decided to buy a Nikon Zr as my first cinema camera. On september I got the chance to try it out on the field for a student short film in Spain. Here is the result: https://youtu.be/05kAwXHxyYc?si=_x-mUk-QMr9htcPm

A two day shoot, outdoors in the heat of the Spanish sun and high-key lighting and indoors with more of a low light scenario.

We shot it with DZO Arles lens for the exterior and Blazar Mantis for the interior (it is an imagination sequence so I thought the change from spherical and anamorphic would help. For the interiors, I was worried about the latitude on this camera, but using its 6400 base ISO and from that base crank it down all the day to 800 worked perfectly for the detail in darker zones.

It was a very fast paced shoot for the exteriors (we shot more than it is shown on the final cut and we needed to run against the sun clock) so everything out there was lit bouncing the sun light and adding negative fill for some shots.

For the interiors we didn't have a lot of money for lighting but enough for a Aputure 400x and a Swit flexible panel which ended up being really useful when filtered with muselin or silk to break the color patern of the led panel.

In general I think we did a good job on the cinematography for the project but there are a few things I now see that would have done differently, mainly on the color correction and controlling the shadows that fall on the character's face a bit more.

Also, for future projects I'm going to try to convince the director and myself to shoot less shots so both of us can be focused on what we are actually doing and not just follow the planned schedule. Some things I feel didn't work on the day and could have been changed just a bit if only we took the time to look around us and make those changes instead of just following the plan.

Anyways, lmk what you guys think, any feedback is apreciated. Here are some stills.

Actual footage of my film not just a picture

Anybody got any clue what the average T stop of thing was shot at?
Was it a wide open job? Doesn't look muddy enough for that...

Pretty cool shot using supertele, I'm guessing either 600mm+ or some postfx fuckery

How to do this. like put a screen or person on a glass? like how to light it, also, how to show a person behind a glass while they are pretty dark, without adding reflections on the glass?

Watch short film here: https://youtu.be/BvmMbdS6OK0

Real proud of my first in-camera transition that I did!

I shot this music video on a Soviet Kragsnogorsk-3 camera I bought from its previous owner, who had kept it in his basement since the 1980s. He originally bought it to film his family, and had also used it for secret film clubs he ran for students in his basement.

For this project, I really wanted to use the camera again, so we decided to embrace its limitations.

It was all shot on Kodak 500T, and two of the rolls were expired/mouldy- it turns out keeping it in the fridge doesn't always stop this- I won't be doing that again.

Full video for Hide from the light, as well as full credits.

Would love to hear what you think and if you've ever used this camera ?

Hi there, just to preface, I'm a director starting some very early planning on my next short I hope to shoot in January. I recently watched Three Colors: Blue for the first time (loved it) and this moment really struck out to me. My DP and I were planning to use light near the end in specific ways to evoke a specific feeling, though that would be more of an editing trick by using artificial film burns we would shoot in a dark room through a glass and then double expose over the footage shot. My thought after watching the film though was we could do something like this as a tease used earlier in the film by having lightly dancing flares like these appear during specific moments in the short.

My question is, for anyone that has scene the film, how did they make these suddenly appear without cutting away or adding any noticeable lighting change into the frame? Is it perhaps it's own double exposure or am I just being dumb and it's as simple as shining a small light that didn't change the lighting of the scene much into the lens from like above or below? My apologies if it's obvious, I'm just not finding it with a few different searches. Or if anyone doesn't quite know exactly how they did this, I would be happy to hear alternative solutions for a similar lighting effect.

https://youtu.be/_g9dPD3D9zk?t=100

I couldn't simply find the scene as it plays in the film with music and whatnot online, but did find it in this analysis video. If the timestamp link doesn't work, the shot starts at 1:41.

Would gladly appreciate any help or insight!

Director: Claire Kilner

Director of Cinematography: Alejandro Martinez

How was this multi-vision spinny effect created for the sequence

I was watching this wildlife show, and during the nighttime they put on the filter? Doesn’t seem like infrared, maybe very high ISO and a colorgrare?