Thread: "cinema" style

I saw one of KVGs shots today that I thought looked right out of a film. I have chatted with Boid in the recent past about recreating a cinema style in stills photography. Show us your shots that have that look like they are from the big screen. Generally, I would think most of these would be 16:9 aspect ratio (or wider), but feel free to share an image if it has a cinema feel in other ways. Feel free to go through your archives and crop one to fit. For my first one here, I cropped to 2.35:1 aspect ratio (the popular CinemaScope aspect ratio) and then dropped it and centered it on a blank black 16:9 frame (like our modern-day tellys).

Untitled-1 by Lukinosity, on Flickr

I'm beginning to think kelly is making movies, and just tosses us random screen grabs on occasion.... Lol ;D

Supa cinema man!

Heres some of my oldest ones


Face to face with one's own self by Kelly Gibbons, on Flickr


The Hipster by Kelly Gibbons, on Flickr


The Collector by Kelly Gibbons, on Flickr


The Smoker by Kelly Gibbons, on Flickr

Some of my newest









I'm really glad you guys like the cinematic style

This is Tom from Edmonton whom is my inspiration.
Flickr: N.O.R.E.'s Photostream

I like it! I might have to give it a go sometime soon :-) very inspirational

Kelly, your shots here have a pretty consistent white balance or color scheme that makes me feel like I'm viewing a movie.....very different from reality or from straight photography. Do you use a preset or does it depend on the image? I think the shots with shallow DOF lend themselves better to this "cinema" look, but I also am interested in the processing and color treatment that I see in your images.

In the first set, I LOVE "the hipster". The second set seems to have more of a consistency in color balance. Are you arriving more at a look that you are using consistently?

Dang, you guyz are 2 good!

I'm gonna have to ponder this.

Originally Posted by Luke

Kelly, your shots here have a pretty consistent white balance or color scheme that makes me feel like I'm viewing a movie.....very different from reality or from straight photography. Do you use a preset or does it depend on the image? I think the shots with shallow DOF lend themselves better to this "cinema" look, but I also am interested in the processing and color treatment that I see in your images.

In the first set, I LOVE "the hipster". The second set seems to have more of a consistency in color balance. Are you arriving more at a look that you are using consistently?

I don't use a preset, but I usuall go for a greenish tint to the white balance with hash contrast. The constant battle I have with photography is my yearning for a shallow dof (but I don't need it to be super shallow) and my preference for a wide angle perspective(28-40mm equivalent). The first shot of the second set was done with a 45mm 1.8 on my gx1 and it achieved the dof I'm after, but not the perspective. I am seriously considering a ff dslr with a 35mm 1.4, but the thing that holds be back is the size. Here is one done with the 25mm 1.4 and its better, but not quite there

Therein lies the crux of the problem. Older FF cameras are always dropping in price with the release of every new body.