“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.” WantNeedsGivingArtDoneMomentsFormArtistFocusPaintingExpressionAmountPhotographyBasesCamerasMediumsArtisticReasonableCriticizeCompositionSelectionSculptureSelectLightingArtistic Expression Author:Edwin Land
“I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.” WayWantHandsSchoolFilmMovingBitsWhitePiecesTeachingFieldsKeysDirectorsDirectLet MeCamerasDepthSizeFactorsLensesLightingFilm SchoolBits And PiecesDepth Of Field Author:Columbus Short
“I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.” IfsThinkingTwoActorsEnergyMinutesPositionFlowCamerasLighting Author:Cristian Mungiu
“The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.” WayLittlesEndsActorsProcessSoundCreativeRecordsDesignDirectorsFlowTheaterCamerasStructureDialogueStorytellingSuitsRhythmDevelopingPostsToneThe End Of The DayEtcCollaborationFilmmakingEditingLocationLightingMixingHoningSound DesignCreative Collaboration Author:Glenn McQuaid
“Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.” LooksOne ThingShadowCamerasLightingResearchers Author:Bill Gates
“People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantArtBigsBreakConceptsCamerasLighting Author:Nikki S. Lee
“After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.” ShouldTryingLooksBookDoneJobsSubjectsFiguresTaughtDegreesCamerasStoresMagazinesFlashEquipmentLightingPhotojournalismMagazines And Books Author:Peter Menzel
“I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.” PeopleWayI CanDifferentStoriesFilmActorsWatchesExpectationsAspectTheaterCamerasCaughtHelpfulCommentAngleCaught UpNever QuitLightingWrong WayCamera Angles Author:Condola Rashad
“Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.” KnowsPersonsPlayFilmHoursInvolvedDirectorsShotsAspectCamerasLikesGet InvolvedLightingInsertNicholson Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.” Would BeFilmCreativeInformationBalancePicksCamerasOneselfScriptureBiblicalEditingAngleAdaptationLighting Author:Joseph Fiennes
“When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses.” ThinkingWayTakenAccountsCamerasBudgetsExpensiveExpensesPackagesLightingBegets Author:Katie Aselton
“I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.” I CanFilmCamerasContactSheetsStubbornLightingAssistantsVisceralReplicate Author:Carol Friedman
“Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.” ShouldMatterComedyJokesCamerasFancyLighting Author:Fede Alvarez
“It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingActorsSceneDirectorsUnderstoodCamerasVery GoodBe YouLensesLightingGood DirectorsCameraman Author:Christopher Walken
“On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.” FourTvsShotsCamerasAll TimeWorriedAngleLightingWardrobe Author:Demi Lovato
“My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.” FirstsMeanRememberUnderstandingSituationAchieveInformationPhotographyCamerasCleanPhotographerPhotographPrioritiesClaritySteadyCompositionDocumentariesLensesFidelityLightingNuanceTransmitTaking Pictures Author:Sam Abell
“Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.” LittlesPersonsSometimesFilmBitsWatchesDirectorsCamerasShoesCrewLightingSouvenirs Author:Jean Reno