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13 Hours:The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi Shot on DRAGON

Well, for what it's worth that tactile sweaty hot sun look of past Bay films now work in digital thanks to chips like Dragon. Something you can't do on some other older sensors that will just hard clip to white a lot in those scenarios. The only thing missing now is film grain, but that is a matter of personal taste.
 
Anyone seen the movie recently? Watched bluray yesterday and i must say this is the worst looking Dragon footage ever.Whats up with those blue burned in flares and other ugly stuff?
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
Anyone seen the movie recently? Watched bluray yesterday and i must say this is the worst looking Dragon footage ever.Whats up with those blue burned in flares and other ugly stuff?
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Aren't those blue flares from the Anamorphic glass they were using?
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
Anyone seen the movie recently? Watched bluray yesterday and i must say this is the worst looking Dragon footage ever.Whats up with those blue burned in flares and other ugly stuff?
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Blue flare strikes are usually from the optics. The look of the film is very "hot", should I say, but far from the worst looking movie shot on Reds.
 
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Looks like the saturation of the blue flare caused some sort of artifact in the conversion from raw to RGB... This looks more like a Rec.709 color matrix artifact, I've seen it with very saturated blue neon lighting on an HD camcorder for example. Which means it probably isn't in the original raw file (the blue flare is, but how it drops to a dark blue is a color matrix artifact, maybe related to color clipping in Rec.709.)
 
I watched this the other night after seeing this thread. Personally I didn't prefer the coloring ... it felt a little off in the saturation of the colors. They nailed a particular look (if they were shooting for this look) but it's not my preference at all as it's too "crushy-punchy." I did see the flares a couple times and it looks like the exact same thing that happens when I overlay a LUT with too much contrast.

Cool film though ... which is why I watched it three times lol
 
This movie looks exactly like Micheal Bay wanted it to look. It has nothing to do with the camera choice. It's a heavily stylized look. Some may care for it, some may not, but it's what the guy wanted.

Nick
 
That might be the DragonColor2 issue where it flares too hot, and a simple switch to DC1 would fix it?
 
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