BCineSkills Article Category: Advanced Lighting Techniques (e.g., High-Key, Low-Key)
Vintage lenses
Ancient Optics Ancient Optics is a cinema lens manufacturer with a focus on vintage optics. The company preserves and curates legendary optical designs for the modern cinematographer. Its extensive testing protocol insures all its lenses have the unique optical characteristics the company wishes to bring to the community. Ancient Optics’ most recent projects – Petzvalux, … Read more
LED lighting
PAINTING WITH LIGHT(-EMITTING DIODES) From colourful punk gigs to offices full of flickering tubes, from cricket pitches made of light to glowing sea monsters, LED technology has opened up many possibilities for creative cinematography. “Although the quality of tungsten light is in theory better than LED, because of its flexibility [LED] is by far superior … Read more
Ask the experts: The filmmaking trends to look out for in 2024
As we bid a not-so-fond farewell to a difficult 2023 for the industry, there are plenty of exciting innovations to look forward to in 2024. We’ve asked 16 experts for their thoughts on this year’s hottest topics. Sustainability in the spotlight As cinematography returns with a bang in 2024 the focus on doing so sustainably … Read more
Dynamic Lighting
Lead image: Zoe Boyle and Kerry Howard lit by China lanterns and covered wagons for Witless shot by Benedict Spence DYNAMIC ILLUMINATION We are lucky enough to live in a time when lighting technology runs the gamut from the simplest tungsten globe to banks of programmable LED panels controlled by an app. Six DPs share … Read more