Contents Introduction
vii
To the Reader
xi
Technical Basics Chapter 1: Film Tests — Stephen Burum, ASC
1
Chapter 2: The Lab — Eclair in Paris
9
Chapter 3: Lighting a Set — Stephen Burum, ASC
15
Sources Chapter 4: The Single Source — Jordan Cronenweth, ASC
23
Chapter 5: Two Hard Sources — John Hora, ASC
31
Chapter 6: Hard & Soft — Owen Roizman, ASC
39
Chapter 7: The Moving Source — Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC
49
Portraits Chapter 8: Three Women — Michel Hugo, ASC
59
Chapter 9: The Bride — Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC
67
Chapter 10: Anamorphic Portrait — Steven Poster, ASC
75
Day Interiors Chapter 11: Beauty and the Beast — Henri Alekan
85
Chapter 12: Filling the Shadows — Frederick Elmes, ASC
99
Chapter 13: Two Days — Tony Pierce-Roberts, BSC
109
Chapter 14: Morning Variations — Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
119
Night Interiors Chapter 15: Day & Night — Haskell Wexler, ASC
129
Chapter 16: Candlelit Dinner — Laszlo Kovacs, ASC
139
Chapter 17: Rembrandt Homage — Yves Angelo
149
Chapter 18: Shades of Bird — Jack Green, ASC
157
Postproduction techniques Chapter 19: Custom Processing — Eclair Laboratory
167
Chapter 20: Desaturating the Image — Denis Lenoir, ASC, AFC
175
Chapter 21: Virtual Effects — Asterix and Obelix Versus Caesar
185
Designing Sequences Chapter 22: Breathless — Raoul Coutard, AFC
197
Chapter 23: Fearless — Allen Daviau, ASC
207
Chapter 24: Seven — Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC
219
Chapter 25: The Last Emperor — Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC
233
Glossary
239
Bibliography
255
Photo Credits
256
Index
257