Online video tutorials can give the impression that shooting at anything but base ISO is somehow detrimental to image quality; and tests evaluating underexposure latitude in post are almost without exception done in SDR. However, because so much of HDR’s dynamic range is located in the shadows where noise tends to be most prevalent, and... Continue Reading →
ASC StEM2 Making Of and Download
The Mission is a 17-minute short film, carefully crafted by ASC cinematographers and associate members, image scientists, colorists, manufacturers and technologists to provide a cinematic and diverse piece of media that may be freely used to test theatrical projection, theatrical emissive displays, professional monitors, consumer monitors and post production image processing software and hardware. American Society... Continue Reading →
ACS: HDR Can’t Be Ignored
Ben Allan, ACS hosted a video on YouTube entitled HDR: A Cinematographer’s Perspective which documents the ACS Technology Committee performing an HDR test shoot with the support of Lumen Arty Film Studios, Panavision, Sony and Cutting Edge Post. They invited Toby Oliver, ACS (Day Shift) to light and shoot some example scenes and to monitor... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 