Blog
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Letter From the President
Creation of the Image
“Much will change as a result of 2020. Some things will disappear, others will return modified by lessons learned during these past months: different, but better.”
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Letter From the President
Documentaries: Stranger Than Fiction
With the “creative non-fiction” of documentaries to light the way, telling us stories about ourselves, some that may be hard to watch, we learn so much about our world, and how to live in it together.
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Parallax View
New Site Pays Tribute to Doc Pioneer Leo Hurwitz
He went on to make singularly important contributions to the development of other film and television techniques through the 1990s, helping to invent multi-camera TV and what came to be called cinéma vérité.
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Shot Craft
Light Quality 101
The primary characteristics of light that a cinematographer must learn to master are intensity, color and quality. Here we’ll take a look at the fundamentals of quality.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Icebox Problems
“Even as productions are finally ramping up again, we are going back on set in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), with each of us bringing our own 6-foot radius of isolation.”
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TheFilmBook
Grain Ghost -- Frames2 -- Uncut Gems with Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC
Frames2 offers a detailed look at Darius Khondji's lighting for the nights of Uncut Gems, the application of film grain to the Alexa image, and underexposure.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Picture Partners
“Cinematographers have been called many things, on set and off, but one defining characteristic is the ability to collaborate.”
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Parallax View
Michael Cioni Turns Up the Music
The ASC associate member has been composing, recording and editing original music tracks — a creative project and reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact.