“One of the things I’ve noticed over the years with HDR is once the DP sees the look with the added range they think they may have wanted to adjust the framing. The added levels on highlights and added saturation to highlights pulls the eye around in different ways than when we have a small… Read More
Manual SDR Grade vs. Dolby Vision Derived SDR Version
Can industry professionals distinguish between the ‘hand graded’ SDR version of a Hollywood film and a Dolby Vision derived SDR version? That’s the question Dolby Vision set about to answer when they went on a worldwide tour of nine cities to do an ‘SDR Survey’. The cities they visited were Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, New… Read More
a7s III HDR PQ Grade Reveal
ProRes RAW HQ Grade Reveal
Lighting setup – window light, two reflectors
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part IV
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part I Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part II Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part III Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part IV Atomos: Outlook The forecast for Atomos, which designs, manufactures and distributes monitor/recorders which range in price from USD $299 – $6,499, with a gross margin of around… Read More
Armando Salas: Strategy for HDR Monitoring on a Budget
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part I Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part II Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part III Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part IV “The technology changes every time you sneeze. So for any show, it’s gonna be about investigating and pushing and figuring it out. Because a lot of times,… Read More
HDR Nirvana
ASC associate member and American Cinematographer contributing editor Jay Holben discusses HDR from the set to post with Polly Morgan, Markus Förderer, Marshall Adams, Erik Messerschmidt, Jay Holben and Dave Cole, followed by a question and answer session in a new series of in-depth interviews entitled Insights: an incredible wealth of knowledge spread across three absorbing hours. In… Read More
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part II
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part I Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part II Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part III Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part IV I sort of equate shooting in SDR and finishing in HDR [to] shooting on film but exposing it on the video tap. You know you’re only looking… Read More
Criteria for Evaluating Online Instruction
As the number of online HDR tutorials grows, it becomes necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff. The best way to go about that is pretty straightforward – just have a look at the content creators’ own footage: is it noisy? blurry? are highlights clipped? how about tonal gradations, or lack thereof? compression artifacts?… Read More
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part I
Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part I Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part II Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part III Why HDR Production Monitors Matter, Part IV “Unnecessary.” “Not possible.” “Fantasy.” Those are the words of a director of photography, slumming in L.A. since wrapping up shooting of a satirical period piece for Hulu,… Read More
