Friday, 3 January 2020

Two things professional photographers DON'T use.














1.V-Log

So Martin Scorcese works with his director of photography setting up the lighting for the key scene in his new mafia movie and then shouts we're shooting in V-Log!! I think not. Film, TV and advertising video makers get the light right before they start. Why on earth would they bother with some low contrast, low saturation nonsense. No, V-Log is for pretend professionals and people who have no idea how they want their footage to look. Apart from anything else it just takes up time to get the footage looking right. Why not get it right in the first place? File under 'Things for people with too much time on their hands.'














2. Wide apertures

OK, there are occasions when it's a case of no wide aperture, no picture. But if you are a pro photographer going to a job you anticipate what you need. If you may be shooting in a dark environment, you take the light with you. These days it's using Flash and/or LED's. And just how often do you see bokeh images in commercial photography?