Photography

Color photography can be so much harder to get right than B&W. It's a level of complexity comparable to going from driving (2 D) to Flying (3 D). you deff have a photographers eye. ( and you should return it when you are done with it)
 
ananda11 said:
Color photography can be so much harder to get right than B&W. It's a level of complexity comparable to going from driving (2 D) to Flying (3 D). you deff have a photographers eye. ( and you should return it when you are done with it)
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Color photography is awesome, but for street photography and photojournalism a lot of the time black and white ends up being more powerful. You don't have the control over the scene as you do with staged photography. There are clashing colors everywhere, bright or ugly colors in places they shouldn't be where they draw your eye away from the subject. There's also something about black and white that adds a timeless aspect to a lot of photos. There is a time and place for both to be used and the key to a great photographer is knowing which to use when. I love playing with colors and stuff when I'm doing more commercial and film work.
 
Elysielle said:
Thanks! What Canon do you use?
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Canon 60D and a variety of lenses- a fast 50mm, a Canon zoom and a couple of lomos used on adapters. Though I've often got a 50mm mounted. Also some compacts for the pocket. I still have a few 35mm film cams from diff makers.... but rarely used now.

I have a few Canon Cinema cameras too with a fair bit of glass I have collected; XF100, C100 I and a C300 II.

I've been a Canon fanboy for many years! But use Black Magic cams too.

What do you use?
 
Captain_Marko said:
Canon 60D and a variety of lenses- a fast 50mm, a Canon zoom and a couple of lomos used on adapters. Though I've often got a 50mm mounted. Also some compacts for the pocket. I still have a few 35mm film cams from diff makers.... but rarely used now.

I have a few Canon Cinema cameras too with a fair bit of glass I have collected; XF100, C100 I and a C300 II.

I've been a Canon fanboy for many years! But use Black Magic cams too.

What do you use?
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I have a Canon 6D Mark ii for a body. For lenses I have a 50mm 1.8, 100mm 2.0, 16mm-35mm 2.8 that I primarily use. I also have a 28-135 and a 70-300 that I haven't really used much since getting the 16-35 and 100.

I don't have any cinema cameras of my own but have usage of a Black Magic and C300 II. I've got a really nice community of people I work with and some of us swap gear, I've played around with the Panasonic Lumix GH5, Fuji XT2, and a few different Sony mirrorless models.

Nice set up, what kind of work do you do? Sorry if I've asked this before, I've got a horrible memory unless I write things down haha. Most of the work I'm aiming for is documentary, specifically conflict journalism. For now I do a lot of commercial work and fiction film, I just wrapped a short film that's a part of a horror anthology and started a music video for a local international winning singer/songwriter.
 
@Elysielle The GH5 is a great little cam, in my experience you have to work at it a bit to get decent images out of it and it's fairly hard to grade to match Canon stuff. I've been "off" Sony for many years now I just don't like the "video" rather than "cinematic" look they produce despite trying many LUTS and settings .... if we need a crash cam a Canon DSLR or one of the small XC10 or 15 type works better for us.

I mostly do script writing, research and production management these days as I'm an old wrinkly & my legs are a bit bad ( .. probably too many years lugging Nagra's and heavy Super 16mm cams around!). In the areas of investigative journalism, political feature shorts and so on. Haven't done much drama ( by choice really...) and taught for a decade or two on the side, production and film history.
 
@Captain_Marko Sony was definitely my least favorite of the ones I've played around with, I'm more of a Canon person myself, the music video we are currently shooting is being done with the GH5, which is my friend's camera of choice, it hasn't been horrible, but there are things I wish that were different about it. I've definitely done more photography than film, I've only really gotten into film in the last year and a half, two years, and most of my work on sets is BTS photography with some AC, AD, and producer work. I'll be out in Washington working on the largest budget film we've done so far, a slasher that's based on a short that did great on the festival circuit.

Very cool! Script writing is a lot of fun. The stuff you've worked on, has it mainly been news/journalism related, or have you done much fiction work as well? It's definitely been interesting seeing things go from idea to script to screen and I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
 
@Elysielle Virtually no drama/fiction, I don't like it very much, I prefer factual investigative work. Not really news, more the stories behind the news on the world stage. Though when work has been slow I have done commercials as a producer, I don't like that either!

Glad you did well at festivals they are very good places to network. :)
 
@Captain_Marko Ahh gotcha, I didn't think I would like fiction at first, but I've been writing since I was small, there's something about watching a story go from an idea, to paper, to screen. Commercials are one of my least favorite things to do haha.
 
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