Hoje faz dez dias que saímos de Vancouver rumo ao Brasil para passar o break de fim de ano. Não foi muito planejado, a gente tinha pensado em ir pra Los Angeles primeiro, e acabamos mudando de idéia em cima da hora. Uma das decisões mais acertadas de todas, porém! Comecei a escrever esse post no dia …
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December 2014
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIG - ANAMORPHIC LENS-YCLOPEDIA FAKING THE LOOK In spite of all the magic involving anamorphic lenses, there are situations where it's much easier (and cheaper) to fake the anamorphic look than to use the actual lenses. Over the last couple years a bunch of different options …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIF - DIOPTERS, OR CLOSE-UPS ANAMORPHIC LENS-YCLOPEDIA After almost one year of experimenting, researching, many lenses bought and sold, I realised how much time was wasted just looking for important and trustworthy pieces of information or user tips regarding a lot of lenses. …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIE - DAMAGE AND SERVICING DIOPTERS, OR CLOSE-UPS For a proper result when working with anamorphic adapters, the constant use of close-up filters is required, thus many anamorphics need some modification to their front part, since they don't have standard (or any) filter …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIID - CINEMA LENS (2X) DAMAGE AND SERVICING Just to be clear: all the anamorphics taken into account for this research are no longer in the making. The last batch, for the digital video market, was discontinued around the year 2000. Before these, most of them come from sometime …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIC - DOUBLE FOCUS (2X) D - CINE LENSES (2X) The final group of anamorphics described here: the best was saved for last. Anamorphic Cine Lenses still exist in great numbers abroad (remember, this article was written in Brazil), and by 2012-2013, are being announced by many major …
Matte Painting foi uma matéria bem aleatória. As aulas começaram muito bem, e no meio do processo eu peguei birra de alguma coisa que ainda não sei - a idéia, o conceito, a execução, meu trabalho, não faço idéia - mas fui deixando de lado, enrolando e fazendo esforço mínimo até agora de manhã. Hoje …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIB - ISCORAMAS (1.5X) DISCLAIMER: This article was written way before the announcement of the FM system. I haven't had time to study it properly, so some information here is probably outdated already. C - DOUBLE FOCUS (2X) Entry point for many anamorphic users, these lenses are …
When I decided to go Instagram all the way I haven't thought about technical specs for even a second. I created my account and started to upload random things in there - at least one picture a day - and for today I thought of trying to upload a short video, stop motion style. Edited the thing …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIA - FOCUS THROUGH (1.33X) B - ISCORAMAS (1.5X) Back in 2009, an Iscorama could be bought for little over a hundred bucks. Currently their price ranges between US$2500 and US$3500. It takes a lot of effort, patience and time to get better deals. Iscoramas were made between 1970 …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER III - LENS RESEARCH A - FOCUS THROUGH (1.33X) The most subtle lenses, when it comes to stretch factor are also the newest ones. Between 1999 and 2004 the standard screen size switched from 4:3 to 16:9 and, the same way it happened in the movie industry, would be too expensive to …
Um ano e meio atrás eu postei sobre a diversão que foi jogar Far Cry 3. Agora estou de volta, pra falar da edição seguinte. Lançado pouco menos de um mês atrás, Far Cry me manteve entretido por mais de quarenta horas. Jogar um shooter no PS4 é ridiculamente mais difícil que no PC, mas mesmo assim …
Entre todos os meus anos de escola, faculdade e afins, sempre tem uma coisa em comum que me desagradava: a ordem alfabética na chamada. Ok, se fosse só pra chamada era tranquilo, mas era também pra apresentações, entrega de prova, entrega de trabalho, então duas opções eram cenário comum e as duas …
Ontem tivemos o feedback e revisão dos nossos projetos de demo reel na VFS. Tá melhor explicado nesse post aqui, mas uma coisa é tão peculiar e relacionada com esse blog e minha evolução no caminho da fotografia que PRECISAVA ser postada aqui. A GRANDE alteração no meu projeto é que o formato da …
Yesterday we spent the whole day grouped together in room 105, reviewing and getting feedback from our mentors regarding our projects. It was pretty cool because we got to see everyone else's projects, not just our own. Some very nice reels at work in 3D111, gotta tell you. I was the second to last …
I was feeling super lazy about working on slap comps. Fact. In film production school all we do before the shooting is, SOMETIMES, a demo, which is a rough version of the whole movie in someone's living room, with the director, producer and whatever crew members are available. It does help a little …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER II - INTRODUCTION LENS RESEARCH After the first weeks of research, reading, watching tons of test videos and getting to the core of the anamorphic squeeze pros and cons, there were still plenty of questions unanswered. My curiosity got the best of me and so I decided it was time …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER I - WHO AM I AND WHAT IS THIS ABOUT INTRODUCTION What are these so called "anamorphics"? The dictionary states "Optics. having or producing unequal magnifications along two axes perpendicular to each other". In our case, a lens or adapter that distorts only the image's horizontal …
WHO AM I AND WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? One of the main things for me in photography is the strong connection between technique and creativity one has to make to achieve good looking results. Knowing how the camera works isn't enough. We need to understand human vision, composition, colors, light, and …
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Seis Meses em Retrospectiva - um título que não representa nem metade do post.
December 6, 2014Ok, tem seis meses e umas duas semanas, mas ainda tá valendo, tá perto o suficiente. Esse post é uma montanha russa, então, nem se empolguem muito nas partes eufóricas ou se preocupem nas depressivas! O que me motivou a começar esse post foi a arrumação de arquivos de ontem, quando comparei o tanto …
We heard, numerous times, this assignment would be hell, that nothing works and people go crazy over it. I think no one is going crazy in our class. Tracking was hard, that's for sure, but after that, it was all fun and this is what I'm writing about in this post. Seriously, this has been the …
During this week we'll talk about the role of color on our reels. For such classes I worked on some grading for my current frames, aiming at the look I want on the final product: something that feels colder while keeping skin tones almost natural, just a bit less saturated and still have a nice …