Dear Friends, I'm about to buy my first spot meter, and I am looking at the Sekonic Speedmaster L-858D-U (link). Anyone have experience with it? I'm open to other recommendations, too. I've also looke

Hey There! I am currently a grad student and I will be working on a short fictional film about some young rock band performers. I want to recreate the lighting as if they were truly on stage. I am not

Hi dear mentors, Next saturday I'll be DPing a music video with just 3 lights: 1 1K fresnel, 1 1K quartz redhead, 1 500w fresnel. The scene will be just one: a color paper as the background. I will ne

I am shooting a interview using the Interrotron, with two Alexa LF cameras side by side. It seems to be hard to find a interrotron that is large enough to cover the physical space of two lenses. Does

Hello everybody, Next week I am going to make my first tests with a Cinema Camera. My brother works in a rental house and we are going test a Canon C 300 Mrk II, a RED Scarlet and maybe a Arri Alexa P

In my recent student project, I tried to do build an image system in a different way. But after a premier of my project, I didn't get an expected reaction. So how do I do self- analysis and learn from

CML-Mentor I hope this is the right place for this. I am working on a docu-series where I am being relied upon to wear many hats, including producer/line-producer style work. I have been tasked with a

Hi all- I’m giving a little talk tomorrow about lighting for commercials. It’s basically me showing some spots I shot and talking about how I lit them. If you’re interested, here’s the place: https://

Hello everyone, I'm preparing a music video that's being thought of as a two minute single take in front of a 30' blue screen. Because of the restricted budget, we plan to shoot outdoors using natural

We're taking the plunge and we're investing in buying our own gear. We've settled on getting a Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2, and now we’re lost in the endless research of rigging it out. I hope th

Hello, Next month I am going to shoot a video in Sony Alpha 7 iii and a Sony Alpha 6300. My last experience with Sony I use PPP2 and I don't know if I miss something, the footage was pushing for red.

Hi all- I’ll be giving a short workshop on lighting faces for streaming video using two lights, some diffusion and a bounce card. It’s fairly basic, so if you’re new to lighting this is perfect for yo

How is this done? -- Guy Mastrion Creative_Director_DP_Professor www.linkedin.com/in/guymastrion

Hi All, (I'm posting this lighting question to Mentor in the likely event I'm missing the obvious choice here.) I often like bringing hard daylight into rooms as cuts of light, then breaking them up w

Hi CML! I’m looking for a photometric calculator similar to the Arri Photo Calc but wanted to enter my own light power or incident light values in lumens/lux as well as beam angle. Can anyone recommen

Hello there, I've been reading CML on a regular basis for a year now and wanted to begin by expressing my gratitude to this group. It's been a wonderful learning platform! I'm currently looking into i

Skin Tones, rightly so, is a number one topic of discussion. But searching the forums, I haven't found a topic that discusses this aspect of skin tones. Did I just miss it? For those that don't know,

Before I dive in.... 1) I understand cameras are tools, it's not the camera's fault :) 2) I want to test but I don't have access to an Alexa LF 3) Over the short time I've been working, my clients don

I devised a test to measure the dynamic range of a camera. I tested the Alexa Mini and managed to get only 12 stops out of the 14+ stops listed on the ARRI website. What's going on? For my test, I kep

I have experimented with the idea of setting the camera’s EI to one number and setting EI on the meter to a different number - re-rating the camera. I plan on diving deeper into this after devising so