EOSHD covers some of the techniques used by DP Robert Richardson on Django Unchained. A big mainstream hum around Tarantino and the endless violence debates (which are really rather silly) can often get in the way of what I consider to be a great artist at work. He’s drawing in very broad brushstrokes again with Django Read MoreRead More
The medium isn’t dead, it’s changing. But sensationalistic pundits haven’t figured that out yet. Back in May of 1897, when his cousin fell deathly ill, the press erroneously reported that it was none other than Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) himself who was unwell to the point of expiration. To correct this, Twain responded with Read MoreRead More
Steve McCurry and National Geography document the shooting of the final roll of the legendary Kodak Kodachrome Film. And just cause… via PetaPixelRead More
The Future of Celluloid Film is dim. So they said in 1910. The death of film has been proclaimed over and over again – so argues this piece from the Village Voice. That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even Read MoreRead More
This fascinating 1958 documentary titled “How film is made”, that documents the production process and birth of photographic and cinematic film, was initially uncovered as part of a heritage in the Netherlands. Although its exact source and purpose are as of yet still unknown, it may have been an instructional film for new employees at Read MoreRead More
A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. By Tom JenkinsRead More
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Ron Fugelseth sent his son’s Toy Train to space in this uniquely creative weather-balloon flight video:Read More
Written and Directed by Fracois Ferracci, “Lost Memories” takes place in Paris in the year 2020, overrun with digital signage and holograms – a place where an old fashion Polaroid Instant Camera would feel very out of place. Visual Effects Breakdown:Read More
Shane Hurlbut explains some of the film tests he conducted for Terminator Salvation and The Greatest Game Ever Played. Push and Pulling, Stretching and Baking Before the digital age, as cinematographers we tested new and old film stocks; we pushed them, pulled them, baked them, took them to the breaking point. Cross processed them, ENR’ed Read MoreRead More
Vincent Laforet discusses the bridging step from silver particles to zeros and ones. I love film. Most of us love film. In fact when I told my father I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a photographer (my father was a photographer for Gamma Press, and then the Director of Photography and principle Read MoreRead More
Film enthusiasts of the celluoid variety have one less producer of film as Fujifilm decides to shut down production.
Fujifilm has mainly provided negative films for shooting and positive films for projection in its motion picture film business operations. However, in order to adapt to the recent rapid transition of digitalization in the shooting, producing, projecting and archiving processes of motion pictures Fujifilm has decided to shift its business operations to provide products and services designed for digital workflow of motion picture production and projection…
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