Chapter 9. The Camera and Optics
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
—Ernst Haas
When we say something in a movie looks realistic, we really mean it looks like it was at some point a real scene, and at that time, it was also photographed with a real camera. The distinction is critical, because the photographed world looks different from the one your naked eye sees.
Cinematography is essential to compositing, and increasingly, compositing is also vital to cinematography (vividly attested in the Oscar win in that category for Life of Pi, a movie whose signature shots ...
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