Mitch Martinez - Director of Photography - page 5

Slow motion footage is inherently awesome.  The simplest things look epic.   From an entry level DSLR shooting 60fps to the Phantom series cameras that shoot up to several thousand frames per second, today’s technology lets us push the boundaries of high frame rate shooting.  If…

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Wireless video transmission has only recently become a reality for film sets.  True, it’s been around for a while in limited capacities but in the past handful of years it’s really blossomed into something great.  There are a handful of companies offering products in this…

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HDR is short for High Dynamic Range.  In short, it’s a way to get more latitude visually than your sensor can do on its own with a single exposure.  Still cameras often do this with bracketing or an external triggering device that allows many exposures…

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Aperture.  Iris.  F Stops.  T Stops.  Light Meters. Histograms…  A lot of people don’t know enough about these topics and of course, the more you know – the better you can craft your images. One of the first things that people think of when talking…

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The Lens Baby system has been around for a while.  I remember checking it out at their booth at NAB 08 and being intrigued by it but never really saw any high resolution footage that was shot on it.  The effect is really quite niche…

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Dutch heads are awesome.  So are their resulting dutch angles and camera moves.  The downside is that they’re expensive to buy ($7K or more for the really high end models) and not always stocked in every local rental house.  Granted, they’re far less expensive for…

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