Category: Camera Tests
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Camera & Lighting Tests for ‘Kitchen Sink Drink’
Originally a short film I was tasked with creating for my Film Studies A-Level, I remake it every couple of years to see how I have grown as a cinematographer and filmmaker. I decided to shoot in colour this time, unlike the previous one, with a focus on mixing colour temperatures and static camera movements.…
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Camera & Grading Tests For ‘Brothers And Sisters’
These are a selection of frames from the camera tests I did for a short film I will be shooting this summer titled ‘Brothers and Sisters’. I wanted to go for a very low-contrast but high-saturation look, injecting a lot of blue into the shadows, often front lighting when I can with the sun. The…
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Camera & Lighting Tests For Upcoming Project
Below are some frames of the camera and lighting tests for an upcoming short film I’m working on, nicknamed ‘Gothic Religious Film’. Continuing to experiment with faking anamorphic lenses like in my last blog post, which goes into much more depth on the subject. Also experimenting with a 16mm Kodak 500T film stock emulation. I’m…
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Creating A Classical Hollywood Look
I spent my summer developing a look I will soon use in a narrative piece I nicknamed “50s French Film”. The key characteristics of the look are a monochromatic presentation and a classic cinemascope aspect ratio of 2.55:1. I was inspired by various French films of the 1950s that were shot in black and white that…
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Documentary Style Filmmaking
I really admire the documentary-style filmmaking of Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020) and First Man (Damien Chazelle, 2018), and wanted to experiment with using my camera hand-held. However, one thing I might do differently, as I am trying to achieve a nostalgic and reminiscent feel to this experiment, is to use longer lenses, unlike Nomadland which…
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Using Light to Create Shape
I really love the dynamic range of the camera and wanted to see how I could use harshly contrasted lighting to create shapes, reminiscent of noir films. I thought interior sunlight would work well for this, as there is no ambient light filling in the shadows as there is for exterior shots coming from the…
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The Crop Irrigation Sprinkler
In my continued efforts of testing my new camera and lenses, I filmed the crop sprinkler out the back of my house. I used both the 24mm and 50mm Canon FD primes. (They appear to be a longer focal length as the camera I use has a micro four-thirds sensor and the lenses specified have…
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Initial Camera Tests
A recent addition to my camera set-up is the 28mm and 50mm Canon FD lenses, produced in the 1950/60s. I was drawn to them because of their low-contrast processing of light and natural and old-fashioned softness, as opposed to the higher-contrast and overly sharp artificiality of contemporary sterile-looking lenses. I wanted to see how they…