Still photographers love histograms. Cinematographers hate them. Here’s why our world is so different from theirs in this regard… This is a normal histogram, pulled from Resolve 10. Histograms count pixels, nothing more, and they only tell us how many…
Author Art Adams
![Making a Pinhole Camera Out of a Sony F55](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo-11small-300x185.jpg)
Years ago I turned a low-end SD camera into a pinhole device by covering the lens port with black wrap and poking a hole in it. I decided to try again with a much higher-end camera. Here’s what happened… In…
New OLED monitors are able to display most of the DCI P3 color space, something that was previously impossible to do without a digital projector and a very dark room. Some are saying that on-set monitoring in P3 is a…
![Resolve 10 Waveform Values for the Unsure](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/artadamsScreenshot-2013-12-02-17.38.57-351x185.png)
Every time I download a new version of Resolve I have to fill out the little questionnaire that asks me what features I’d like to see added quickly. I always write, “Add a waveform scale that reads in percentages!” And…
Being detail oriented is a great thing. Obsessing over the wrong detail costs a production in both time, money and storytelling. Years ago I shot a scene where a character walks down a hallway into a sunlit room. There was…
![Trusting My Meter: The Perception of Brightness](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-30-at-4.54.28-PM-308x185.png)
Ever since my days working in film I’ve tried to find some way to equate my sense of brightness to real world exposure. I learned to do this well with film, but HD has been a mystery… until now. On…
![Shooting S-Log2 Without a Net](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/artadamsWampire-Article_1.1.28-351x185.jpg)
One of the greatest things about the Sony F55 is that I can shoot S-Log2 inexpensively. One of the worst things about it is that I can’t see what I’m doing. Here’s how I worked around that. In my last…
![An Interior Lit with Two Lights, Part 2](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/artadamsWampire-Article_1.1.42-351x185.jpg)
In my last article I wrote about lighting a dramatic library scene using only two lights. Here’s how I lit a rich, dreamy bar scene using the same two lights. Bay Area dot-coms are big on creature comforts. I shot…
![An Interior Lit with Two Lights, Part 1](https://www.dvinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/artadamsWampire-Article_1.1.18-351x185.jpg)
Sometimes the best shoots are the ones where you just have to make do. A recent music video threw me a challenge: do the best you can with two lights. So… I did. Here’s how… Recently Sony sent Adam Wilt…
This is the final article in my “Best of” Reddit AMA series. Lots more goodness follows… On being asked how to communicate your desire for a particular look with a DP: Traditionally you share films and images that you like…