The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging

Author: Blain Brown
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317692659
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
It’s a whole new world for cinematographers, camera assistants, and postproduction artists. New equipment, new methods, and new technologies have to be learned and mastered. New roles such as that of the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), Digital Loader, and Data Manager are integral to today’s motion picture production process. Take your mastery of these new tools, techniques, and roles to the next level with this cutting-edge roadmap from esteemed author and filmmaker Blain Brown. The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging covers both the theory and the practice, featuring full-color, in-depth coverage of essential terminology, technology, and industry-standard best-practices. Brown covers new industry-wide production standards such as ASC-CDL and the ACES workflow. Interviews with professional cinematographers and DITs working on Hollywood productions equip you with knowledge that is essential if you want to work in today’s motion picture industry, whether as a cinematographer, DIT, Digital Loader, Data Manager, camera assistant, editor, or VFX artist. Topics include: Digital sensors and cameras The structure of digital images Waveform monitors, vectorscopes, and test charts Using linear, gamma, and log encoded video files Exposure techniques for HD and UltraHD Understanding digital color Codecs and file formats The DIT cart Downloading, ingesting, and managing video files Workflow from camera to DIT cart to post Using metadata and timecode The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/brown) features additional material, including demonstrations and interviews with experienced DITs and cinematographers.

The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging

Author: Blain Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415854115
Category : Digital cinematography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Covering the technical and practical aspects of production on the set, data management at the DIT cart and post-production, including the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ACES Workflow. Technical issues are presented in a readable but thorough manner with many diagrams and illustrations to explain the concepts. Dozens of color diagrams and illustrations make the concepts easily understandable. Also included is a website/DVD with video footage of the author in discussion with professional DITs, cinematographers and editors, and video presentation of other concepts outlined in the book. In addition to the technical aspects of sensors, exposure, digital color, codecs, color grading and data management, this book also deals with the more practical side of working as a digital cinematographer, DIT, DMT or camera assistant, including a chapter on how to put together your own DIT cart. Colorists and editors will also find the chapters on image control, workflow, scene-linear and the ACES workflow essential to their work and advancement in the industry.

The Complete Guide to Digital Imaging

Author: Joël Lacey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500283141
Category : Image processing
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Most books on digital imaging have followed the traditional imaging chain of input-manipulation-output. The Complete Guide to Digital Imaging argues that the digital designer will achieve better results by following the reverse sequence: output-manipulation-input. If artists know the final usage, they'll be spared the aggravation of scanning a photo at ultra-high resolution when all that's really needed is a 100-pixel animated gif. From providing tips on accurate previewing of images to clarifying color management systems and beyond, this valuable reference makes the complexities of digital imaging simple, understandable, and repeatable. Clear directions and hundreds of full-color illustrations demonstrate, step by step, how to achieve maximum results with minimum fuss--as well as get up and running quickly on image capture, image correction, output to print, and output to Web.

The Extraordinary Guide to Basic Digital Imaging -2nd Edition

Author: Alan Perlman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458371638
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
A complete and very understandable guide to all the terms, concepts, procedures and techniques that form the basis for a successful and satisfying digital photography experience. Learn about image resolution, file formats and compression, camera scene modes, organizing and preserving your images for posterity and much, much more. Features a detailed exploration of Picasa3, a free yet powerful image editing and digital asset management program from Google that offers a convenient and fully featured hub to accommodate all your imaging needs.

The Practical Guide to Digital Imaging

Author: Michelle Perkins
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc
ISBN: 9781584281504
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
This thorough guide to digital photography provides instructions for every step of making photographs with a digital camera, from capturing an image to producing beautiful prints. Hints for choosing a camera, tips for evaluating images, and advanced techniques for manipulating pictures are discussed, as is the importance of selecting the correct software. Using digital images online is reviewed, with suggestions for minimizing file size to reduce upload time, ideas for using images to create graphics for a web page, and guidelines for creating a safe digital work flow.

Color Science and Digital Imaging

Author: Steve Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781003486084
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects, demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion. Readers will not only learn how things work, their capabilities and limitations, but also the Color Science that goes along with it, in an accessible and informative manner. Starting in the Real World with an understanding of light and our human perception of it, the book then explores how digital cameras "see" the scene and digitize it. From the capture of these images, the Author then explores the fundamental concerns of storage, editing and managing color images, including with OCIO and ACES. Written for the professional Photographer, Cinematographer, visual effects, motion graphics or CG artist, Editor and Colorist, this book will provide you with knowledge of the upstream and downstream technology to your job that will not only give you a competitive advantage and help you to make better images while giving you a real-world working knowledge of Color Science"--

Digital Imaging for Photographers

Author: Adrian Davies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113609685X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Color Science and Digital Imaging

Author: Steve Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781032773865
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects (VFX), demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion. Readers will learn not only how things work, their capabilities and limitations, but also the color science that goes along with them, in an accessible and informative manner. Starting in the real world, with an understanding of light and our human perception of it, the book then explores how digital cameras "see" and digitize the scene. From the capture of these images, the author then explores the fundamental concerns of storage, editing, and managing color images, including with OpenColorIO and ACES, the Academy Color Encoding System. Written for professional photographers, cinematographers, VFX, motion graphics and computer graphics artists, editors and colorists, this book will provide you with knowledge of the upstream and downstream technology of your job that will not only give you a competitive advantage and help you to make better images, but also give you a real-world working knowledge of color science.

Digital Imaging for Visual Artists

Author: Sally Wiener Grotta
Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780070250673
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 661

Book Description
Covers the different aspects of digital imaging, including the basics of digital electronics, the physics of color, and the choice of a reliable printer

Visual Storytelling for Filmmakers

Author: Blain Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032414706
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, author Blain Brown explores how we use space, color, camera angles, composition, motion, POV and all the other methods in the day-to-day work of telling stories visually. Brown interrogates not only the tangible aspects of visual storytelling, but also the more abstract areas as well including visual metaphor, manipulating time and space, and visual subtext. It covers all the aspects of visual storytelling that directors, cinematographers, and editor use to tell stories visually a. Written by a working filmmaker with over 30 years' experience as a director and cinematographer, this book looks at both the how and the why of visual storytelling, consistently drawing on the day-to-day real-world environment of making a film. Ideal for intermediate and advanced students of filmmaking as well as professionals working in the industry. Topics Include: - Building A World - Cinematic Space - Visual Metaphor - Frame & Composition - Using Color - Time & Space - Light & Shadow - Visual Forces - POV & Eyelines - Motion - Lens & Focus - Establishing - Case Studies