I first became aware of composition over time while watching the film The Hit. There’s a scene where two characters have a conversation while leaning against a car. The shot is very low and very wide, and a lighthouse fills the background. On the right side of frame a character talks to another character who […]
Day: August 17, 2008
What Wired Didn’t Understand about Depth of Field
In the Sept. ’08 issue of Wired Magazine, in an article about the RED camera called “A Star is Born,” the author states that the difference in depth of field between film cameras and HD cameras is due to “analog versus digital,” with no other explanation. I’ve written this for him and for anyone who […]
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The Olympics
I was lucky enough to have attended the first week of the Beijing Olympics and all I can say is WOW! From an attendee perspective and seeing my first Olympic Games in person, to a traveler and visiting China for the first time, to a video production geek spending way too much time watching how […]
Wired Magazine Gets the RED Totally Wrong
I’d like to encourage everyone reading this to pick up a copy of this month’s Wired magazine (Sept. 2008, page 128) and read the article. Then I’d like you to write to both Wired magazine’s editorial department ([email protected]) and the article’s author (Michael Behar, whose email address is listed at the end of the article). […]