Category Archives: cinematography

Film lighting techniques and their effects

Reader’s question: I’m writing a How-To book for comic book creators and am trying to learn more so I can, obviously, teach more. I use a combination of film, comic book, and photography techniques in my teaching as they all apply to graphic

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Camera movement: equipment, techniques and best practices

Camera movement is one of the aspects that distinguishes movie making from still photography. In camera movement the feeling of motion is generated by the fact that objects that are close to the camera appear to move more quickly in the frame than ob

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F-stops, T-stops, focal length and lens aperture

Copyright © 2007 LAvideoFilmmaker.com – All Rights Reserved. _______________________________________________________________ The focal length of a lens is the distance between the optical center of the lens and the film plane (for film cameras

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Why filmmaking needs lights

Copyright © 2007 LAvideoFilmmaker.com – All Rights Reserved. _______________________________________________________________ If you have ever been on a film set you will surely have noticed just how bright film lights are. To an untrained eye,

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