Opening titles: commercials that sell a series
The art of the opening title sequence is flourishing like never before. The best ones contain clues, “Easter eggs,”...
Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 14.1
Alright, Alright, Alright, Blackmagic Design has released the latest version of the color grading and editing software DaVinci Resolve....
Art of the manual white balance
White balancing a camera is only half the story. Now we have to white balance our lights. Back in...
Three beautiful TV shows you probably aren’t watching
I’ve worked on episodic television. I know how fast it moves. That’s why I’m amazed at how good recent...
Canon Compact Zoom Lens Review: 18-80mm and 70-200mm
When I started this career I was told to never ever, under no circumstances, use a camera’s autofocus. Just...
Halloween 2017 movie recommendations
“Terror is smelling a corpse, while horror is finding it.” Gothic fiction defines these terms as very different things,...
Art of the Shot: Mindhunter cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt
Shot with a tailor-made RED camera, the RED XENOMORPH, auteur David Fincher chose cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt to helm camera...
Current thoughts on current lenses
Near perfect lenses are easy to find these days. The problem is… I don’t want them. I want lenses...
Affordable-ish Pro Cine Prime Lenses
Ten years ago if you were “indie”, you kludged together some fast still prime lenses for your cinema camera...
Reality: it’s completely overrated
There’s no such thing as a reality show, only unreality shows. The more unreal, in some cases, the better....