Cinematic Large Format Mistake?

Alan Gales · Jul 19, 2017

E. von Hoegh said:
I've never seen an entire Star Wars movie.

I've seen the Muppet's Movie, Barney Live on stage, and Peter Pan live outdoors at the Muni Theater in 100 degree weather. The things we parents do for our children! Of course it could be worse. Can you imagine parents suffering though Justin Bieber?

Of course there are fun things for me too like my teaching my daughter how to use her Olympus OM-1. Having her help carry my 8x10 gear and shooting her OM-1 while I'm shooting my Wehman. Her telling me that after she graduates college with an engineering degree that she wants me to teach her to shoot large format.

Alan Gales · Jul 19, 2017

E. von Hoegh said:
You mean they don't already?

I have an Aunt who is in her 80's. She was talking to another elderly women who said she had a headache and had to get some brand of pain reliever that she saw on tv. The fellow in the advertisement had a headache and took the same pain reliever and by the time the commercial was over so was his headache. My Aunt thought the lady was nuts!

E. von Hoegh · Jul 19, 2017

Alan Gales said:
I have an Aunt who is in her 80's. She was talking to another elderly women who said she had a headache and had to get some brand of pain reliever that she saw on tv. The fellow in the advertisement had a headache and took the same pain reliever and by the time the commercial was over so was his headache. My Aunt thought the lady was nuts!

Perhaps not. My headache usually goes away when the TV goes off.

Prof_Pixel · Jul 19, 2017

BrianShaw said:
I was watching Ghandi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(film) and noticed the photographer with the crown graphic (1) photographing relatively close with the lens board barely extended (not even extended enough to really focus at infinity unless she was using a 50mm lens

What I see far more often are movie/tv 'photographers' using Graphics with the bellows fully extended so that the lens board is at the end of of the track - well past the infinity stops!

John Koehrer · Jul 19, 2017

Does a TV ad count?
Northwestern health Care' showing an ad with a very pretty field camera, mounted on a Gitzo.
The Fuzzygrapher seems to be composing a setup and fiddles with the shutter from the back of the camera.
All the while with the Holder and DS in the camera. Might be a Lisco, it's got the nice white end on the slide.

Theo Sulphate · Jul 19, 2017

Having the flash powder go off while under the dark cloth was NOT a mistake!!!!

Yes, the shutter was open, the photographer was looking at the groundglass, and of course the film holder was not in the camera.

The movie was accurately depicting just one of dozens of mistakes large-format photographers make!

winger · Jul 20, 2017

Alan Gales said:
Television and Movies are fantasy.

Yes, and try being a forensic chemist testifying in front of a jury that thinks everything on CSI was correct.

jim10219 · Jul 20, 2017

winger said:
Yes, and try being a forensic chemist testifying in front of a jury that thinks everything on CSI was correct.

Does anyone know where the "zoom in and enhance" button is located in Photoshop? Every time I try it, I just get larger pixels instead of crystal clear faces.

winger · Jul 20, 2017

jim10219 said:
Does anyone know where the "zoom in and enhance" button is located in Photoshop? Every time I try it, I just get larger pixels instead of crystal clear faces.

And reading license plates when they were shot at an angle from a distance.

Alan Gales · Jul 20, 2017

winger said:
Yes, and try being a forensic chemist testifying in front of a jury that thinks everything on CSI was correct.

I've heard that!

I'm a retired Sheet Metal Worker. I always like the action movies where everyone crawls through the duct work.

MattKing · Jul 20, 2017

Alan Gales said:
I've heard that!

I'm a retired Sheet Metal Worker. I always like the action movies where everyone crawls through the duct work.

I've often wondered what plumbers think of The Shawshank Redemption.

Alan Gales · Jul 20, 2017

MattKing said:
I've often wondered what plumbers think of The Shawshank Redemption.

Only Mario and Luigi might believe that story.

Alan Gales · Jul 20, 2017

Many years ago a friend of mine, John, was at a party when he was young. There was a fellow there who was mad at another fellow over a girl. He pulled out a pistol and shot at the fellow he was mad at. Unfortunately, John was in-between them and got shot in the hand. John went down to the floor in agony. He said being shot was nothing like the movies where they simply reply, "I think I may have been shot.". Fortunately, it was a only a flesh wound and John fully recovered. He said it burnt like hell though when it happened.

Arklatexian · Jul 21, 2017

AgX said:
On the other hand that dark cloth would be yielding some shelter in case something would go wrong with flash-powder debris...

I was told, years ago, that the reason news photographers always wore hats in the days of flash powder was so burning magnesium would not burn their scalps at the moment of ignition so AgX you are probably correct. Maybe he forgot his hat. By the way, I have seen holders for flash "papers" made of thin sheets of magnesium. The holder had a hole in the center of the reflector where the magnesium, which was clipped to the holder, could be ignited by either a match or cigarette lighter. It was a bit safer than powder, but not much..........Regards!

Arklatexian · Jul 21, 2017

Alan Gales said:
Many years ago a friend of mine, John, was at a party when he was young. There was a fellow there who was mad at another fellow over a girl. He pulled out a pistol and shot at the fellow he was mad at. Unfortunately, John was in-between them and got shot in the hand. John went down to the floor in agony. He said being shot was nothing like the movies where they simply reply, "I think I may have been shot.". Fortunately, it was a only a flesh wound and John fully recovered. He said it burnt like hell though when it happened.

That sounds like it could have happened any night in 2017 where I live except the shooters are better shots now and the results are about 40% fatal. Regarding the dumb "I think I may have been shot" is the old favorite Hollywood scripts that say:"Oh I'm OK, it's just a 'flesh wound". Anyone who has had a shoulder operated on can tell you that rehab is painful as hell and takes a long time and the actors are usually holding their shoulder while saying those really dumb words.........Actually it is almost as dumb as the scenes in movies where news photographers are shooting 4x5 Graphics of crime scenes with the lens at the end of the track like for a 1:1 close-up.......And the family tells me not to use profanity..........Regards!

Arklatexian · Jul 21, 2017

Prof_Pixel said:
What I see far more often are movie/tv 'photographers' using Graphics with the bellows fully extended so that the lens board is at the end of of the track - well past the infinity stops!

Prof. Pixel, you beat me to it.......Regards!

Theo Sulphate · Jul 21, 2017

oldtimermetoo said:
I was told, years ago, that the reason news photographers always wore hats in the days of flash powder ...

In the U.S. at least, hats were standard male attire until 1960, when JFK was elected. If you look at any old photo of people in cities or in groups , prior to 1960, you'll see that almost all men wore hats.

E. von Hoegh · Jul 21, 2017

jim10219 said:
Does anyone know where the "zoom in and enhance" button is located in Photoshop? Every time I try it, I just get larger pixels instead of crystal clear faces.

That's simply the modern equivalent of enlarging a newspaper halftone, revealing a wealth of detail.

E. von Hoegh · Jul 21, 2017

oldtimermetoo said:
I was told, years ago, that the reason news photographers always wore hats in the days of flash powder was so burning magnesium would not burn their scalps at the moment of ignition so AgX you are probably correct. Maybe he forgot his hat. By the way, I have seen holders for flash "papers" made of thin sheets of magnesium. The holder had a hole in the center of the reflector where the magnesium, which was clipped to the holder, could be ignited by either a match or cigarette lighter. It was a bit safer than powder, but not much..........Regards!

Silly wabbit. They wore hats so they'd have a hatband to stick their press pass under. Don't you watch old movies?

BrianShaw · Jul 21, 2017

Why isn't this foolishness in The Lounge?

E. von Hoegh · Jul 21, 2017

BrianShaw said:
Why isn't this foolishness in The Lounge?

I did move that the thread be moved... I'ts fun in a futile kind of way.

Doc W · Jul 21, 2017

E. von Hoegh said:
I did move that the thread be moved... I'ts fun in a futile kind of way.

It didn't start out as foolishness. I thought that there might have been a genuine reason for the photographer being under the darkcloth. Turns out that there wasn't. And then it got weird.

E. von Hoegh · Jul 21, 2017

Doc W said:
It didn't start out as foolishness. I thought that there might have been a genuine reason for the photographer being under the darkcloth. Turns out that there wasn't. And then it got weird.

Weird is good. There's far too much conformity these days.

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