What type of lens was used to get this shot?

[Gary Huff]

Your timewine sample edit definitely has a cell phone look in many shots (especially the shakiness and the quality of your voice in the audio), and your entire energy drink spec commercial has noise consistent with what cellphone noise looks like. The whole “shot at f/11” explanation seems to be to explain why there’s no shallow DoF, which there wouldn’t be from a sensor that small.

[Ryan Elder]

My examples I posted on here before were all done with cameras with detachable lenses.

[Gary Huff]

Great! Then use the lenses you already have.

[Ryan Elder]

Yeah but I don’t mind ordering another lens for some of the shots, that’s doable.

[Ryan Elder]

It’s just the DP’s lenses are not long enough for some of the shots.

[Todd Terry]

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Gary Huff]

Your “DP”’s lenses are perfectly acceptable for the quality you are getting. Don’t waste money.

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks. I see what you are saying, but sometimes I feel the lenses do not look right for every shot. The short film I shot last week, I settled for a 35mm lens, even though I really wanted something wider for the type of shot.

Or how for other shoots I settled for wider even though I feel the shots could look better if they were on a longer lens. So I feel that I am not wasting money.

It seems that some other filmmakers are okay with a bare minimum if quality. Like when it comes to cinematography, they feel that as long as they have a camera, a lens, and some lights that is enough to make the movie.

And technically it is, but I feel like I could be doing better, rather than just doing the bare minimum. Isn’t good to an extent, to want to produce the best movie I can rather than just shortcutting the bare minimum every time?

[Gary Huff]

[ryan elder] “It seems that some other filmmakers are okay with a bare minimum if quality. Like when it comes to cinematography, they feel that as long as they have a camera, a lens, and some lights that is enough to make the movie.”

You’re a filmmaker that is okay with a bare minimum of quality, it’s reflected in the work you’ve shown. You should just take what you have and make a movie instead of just yapping about it.

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks, but you say I am okay with the bare minimum, when in fact I am not and want to upgrade. What makes you think I’m okay with it?