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No green screen in the first shot of Bond.
Really? It's clearly Studio shots, whereas Lea shots are all Location shots. The light is totally off on the 007 shots.
Do we think that Linus Sandgren could get an Oscar nomination for cinematography?
Matera looked absolutely beautiful. Golden hour sunsets and just a lovely warm autumnal like light. Bravo
Yes, I think Linus deserves awards (plural) for NTTD. I don't care as much for the Oscars as I used to, but of course they are still considered important in the industry.
Yes, Matera really stood out.Not that anything else was bad, it was all great.
It seems it was impossible to put the camera anywhere in Matera and not have the frame be photogenic. Nonetheless, Sandgren and Fukunaga shot those sequences so beautifully. It just felt timeless. The Matera scenes will live in the pantheon of great Bond moments for decades to come.
I was wondering though if Sandgren included one of those iconic shots in the film where Craig is standing with his back to the camera and his legs spread apart. Those scenes were always so cool in the Sam Mendes films. I cannot recall a moment in NTTD like that....Can anyone? It's one of the trademarks of Craig's run.
https://imgur.com/a/5gPfKkV
Was it? Damn. For some reason I thought it was left in.
Such a fantastic still. It would make a great photo to frame and put on the wall
Which explains why I kept seeing all these posts saying that Deakins work on SF was superior. At first I couldn’t understand it. Now it makes perfect sense. Of course Deakins’ work was superior. In fact Phil Meheux’s work on CR was superior as well. Deakins’ sharp colors practically popped off the screen, whereas Sandgren’s images have this fuzzy/blurry quality to it. Almost like it’s a bit out of focus. I kept noticing this all throughout the movie. I don’t know if they were going for a dream-like quality or something but I didn’t like it. I loved the sharpness of Deakins’ images.
And then the ending at the poison garden/factory just had this dull gray palette to it that I didn’t care for at all. In fact that whole ending was shot in this gray haze. I kept thinking the whole time “can you not get your camera into focus? What’s with all the haze?”
I’m surprised folks aren’t complaining about the haze because they seem to dislike that aspect in the Roger Moore 80s films that were shot by Alan Hume. That haze was especially evident in FYEO.
So if I were to rank the cinematography of the Craig films it would look like this:
1. Deakins - Skyfall
2. Meheux - Casino Royale
3. Sandgren - No Time to Die
4. Schafer - Quantum of Solace
5. Van Hoytema - Spectre
I think Schafer's work on QOS is underrated (if we take the horrible way it was hacked around in the editing room out of the equation). I'd rank cinematography as follows:
1. Deakins - Skyfall
2. Sandgren - NTTD (but I need to study it more)
3. Schafer - QOS
4. Meheux - Casino Royale
5. Van Hoytema - Spectre
Agreed! This is also how I’d rank them.
That being said, Craig doesn’t have any ugly films IMO. They’re all visual stunners.
I am an enormous fan of the cinematography in QOS. It's second only to SF for me. Both are far beyond what I ever hoped we might get for a Bond film.
(And I'm referring to the series as a whole. OHMSS is up there too for me, but SF and QOS are on another level entirely.)
1) Sandgren tied with Deakins
2) Shafer
3) Meheux
4) Van Hoytema
Yes, exactly. They are all great.
Let i say iam happy for this moment and it be other way around what i feel after Skyfall.
There is No Time for a breath moment and things looks/feel difrent with the trailers. A thrill ride with a lot of action. I get a bit of between QOS and CR feeling, but it never topt. Get idea we missing scenes in Italy and Jamaica / Cuba. The Umbrella and spots (A Night / Evening scene in Jamacia with motorbikes on the background when Bond walking to other side of street) what i name it earlier is not in the movie.
Less sharpnes in pretitles scenes is mabey what it need , because there was also a danger that it going to look like to much on QOS style.
I don't know or change more then only MGM lion at beginning who was new one.