Jeff Cronenweth: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[Peter Matthes]

This afternoon I attended a screening at the Sony building in NYC.

Jeff has knocked this film out of the park.

The footage has such a beautiful look to it. To my eye, it has a satiny, film-like grain to it. This is, without a doubt, the first digitally shot film where I can say that not one frame looked like "video". Both camera and DP shine is a wide variety of locations and lighting set-ups.

Go see this film at the best theater you can. Trust me on this.

P.S. It's also great to finally see a film director recognize Joely Richardson's abilities. She is such a talented actress, and she deserves some great breaks after all she's been through recently.

 

[Michael Millichamp]

This afternoon I attended a screening at the Sony building in NYC.

Jeff has knocked this film out of the park.

The footage has such a beautiful look to it. To my eye, it has a satiny, film-like grain to it. This is, without a doubt, the first digitally shot film where I can say that not one frame looked like "video". Both camera and DP shine is a wide variety of locations and lighting set-ups.

Go see this film at the best theater you can. Trust me on this.

P.S. It's also great to finally see a film director recognize Joely Richardson's abilities. She is such a talented actress, and she deserves some great breaks after all she's been through recently.

Jeff deserved the Oscar for Best Cinematography for The Social Network.

The way he lights and films just overwhelms me. It's beautiful and natural and so.... well, perfect.



And I do agree about Joely Richardson. Nip/Tuck did a good job in the first 2/3 seasons of making her character great, then they ruined her for me with the later seasons.

 

[Robert Berger]

the sensor is the same, the electronics behind the Epic is compleet diffrent, so is the firmware....

 

[John Russell Schmidt]

I have been curious about using a blue filter on RED for a while. And Mr. Cronenweth continues to astound with his use of this particular sensor. It makes sense to filter blue if the sensor performs best at cooler color temps but I haven't heard many other people mention or discus such. Has anyone else out there tested this approach and what were your findings?

 

[Marc Wielage]

Very glad to see Jeff was nominated by the ASC for Best Cinematography:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048456?refcatid=13

It's a big mix this year: film (Tinker Tailor, The Artist, Tree of Life*), Red (GDT), and Alexa (Hugo). I was surprised to see the snub for Janusz Kaminski's work in War Horse, which was a beautiful film. Note that at least The Artist was shot "at" Red (studios), as opposed to "on" Red. Also a very, very strikingly-beautiful film.

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* with pickups on Red!

 

[Steve McBride]

Me and a friend did some tests yesterday with the RED One MX to test the ISO, but we also found out that when we shot at 5600K (the standard for the MX sensor) and then brought it into REDCINE and dropped the color temp from 5600K to around 4200K (roughly what an 80D filter would bring it to), colors looked richer and skin tones looked truer.

I'll try and get some screen grabs to show this.

 

[John Russell Schmidt]

I'd love to see some Steve. Were you guys lighting with tungsten or daylight lights?

 

[Steve McBride]

We were in a room entirely lit by natural day light from a window. Since we were out for testing the ISO and not color temp, we didn't have any lighting fixtures to test other color combinations. Possibly something to do on our shoot this week.