CINEMA: Crushed blacks.
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- ********
I think I am over the "crushed blacks" look.
Everything coming out has the blacks crushed and I would like to see a shift towards flatness again in cinematography.
It's so 2000's...and we are in a new decade.
Time for a new look, maybe.
Thoughts?
- dbloc1
what is crushed blacks?
- ********0
photography.
maybe this is not the right forum for this kind of talk?
- How often have you seen the right talk in this forum?CyBrainX
- SteveJobs0
hdr in the hizzle
- fo shizzlemoldero
- no wizzlejaylarson
- wizzle, fo shomikotondria3
- wizzle my quizzleutopian
- ok_not_ok0
- your silly********
- *you're********
- you are********
- only came here to make sure someone had posted thislocustsloth
- and noone likes to blow out the whites.********
- your silly
- ********0
The godfather is a great example of it being done right.
I saw the wrestler this weekend, and it has more of the contemporary "crushed black" type of usage.
- inteliboy0
the wrestler had a pretty raw 16mm kind of look... the grade was barely heavy.
sure you don't mean that bleach bypass look? Janusz Kaminski does this to a T... and pretty much any Tony Scott film from the last decade.
- ********0
I love Kaminski's work... everything he does is brilliant.
- ********0
I just checked out Kaminski's non-spielberg work...
He definitely works better with SS.
- HijoDMaite0
So it is basically under exposing? Why would one want the crushed black look?
- I guess to evoke a darker emotion in a scene?HijoDMaite
- yeah but it is being overdone********
- + hiding cgi replacementsjasonabc
- yup jasonmoldero
- yes, it helps hide cgi stuff, its hard to match the color coming form the 3d, so you crush both blacks and call it done xDfeel
- Julesvm0
- Caravaggio was the shit!HijoDMaite
- No argument from me. You can end this thread now.CyBrainX
- ********0
Robert Yeoman's work on The Life Aquatic is somewhat similar in tone to the above painting.
- Amicus0
Totally agree with Julesvm and HijoDMaite
- ********0
The other guys is a prime example of it just being a period-pieced out, cliched post-contemporary shtick.
- ********0
"The other guys" is a prime example of crushed blacks just being a period-pieced out, cliched post-contemporary shtick.
- ********0
There will be no option 3.
- ********0
"The Other Guys" is a prime example of ' the crushed blacks look' being a period-pieced out, cliched, post-contemporary shtick.
- ********0
you're putting more thought into this than they have
