Alright I will watch when I get time but still remains my question honestly. The image shown is a landscape like one would expect in a nature documentary. Which I can definitely say most are not dull, under saturated, and sad.
The video claims High Dynamic Range makes movie creators less creative with contrast and lighting, leading to a flat look.
As a hobbyist photographer (for what it’s worth), “contrast” is the first lever I reach for in editing to make a photo look “good”. I love playing with lighting and shadows and contrast. But that’s my personal style; I have a mate who loves the saturation and colours more.
I don’t know why you got downvoted, I did the opposite. You sound like me actually. I’m an amateur photographer who recently upgraded equipment, so despite aspirations of being better I’m no expert, but I do the same. I agonize over the exposure, contrast, and output tone range a lot. I did watch this video and while I agree that there probably are more boring looking movies now, I also wonder if it’s a part of a larger trend of less artistic movies period. I think the movies I end up liking are normally the more visually appealing ones, and while maybe I’m a dummy who just likes things that look good, it feels like some movies just have better… everything. Writing, direction, art direction, casting, everything. The video pointed out some examples of meh photography, but it actually did a lot more of showing good (older) photography, so I’m not sure I’m convinced it’s a problem for me per se. Some of the top notch movies that come out today are astounding to look at. For example he mentioned Nosferatu. That’s been a while at this point but damn that movie was amazing visually, and every other way. Sorta weird ending but I digress. Yeah maybe art direction is more meh now, but the movies I expect to look great typically do. /shrug
I remove my own upvote from my comments. It’s my weird thing I do haha
Yeah I agree, it feels like movies are sacrificing “art” for “clarity” if that makes sense. It reminds me of the yellow paint and popup tutorial plague in videogames. In older movies it kind of felt like you had to pay attention and notice details, and it was worth re-watching things because you’d experience it differently each time. Nowadays I don’t bother, because the entire experience has all been spoon fed directly into my nervous system
Alright I will watch when I get time but still remains my question honestly. The image shown is a landscape like one would expect in a nature documentary. Which I can definitely say most are not dull, under saturated, and sad.
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The video claims High Dynamic Range makes movie creators less creative with contrast and lighting, leading to a flat look.
As a hobbyist photographer (for what it’s worth), “contrast” is the first lever I reach for in editing to make a photo look “good”. I love playing with lighting and shadows and contrast. But that’s my personal style; I have a mate who loves the saturation and colours more.
I don’t know why you got downvoted, I did the opposite. You sound like me actually. I’m an amateur photographer who recently upgraded equipment, so despite aspirations of being better I’m no expert, but I do the same. I agonize over the exposure, contrast, and output tone range a lot. I did watch this video and while I agree that there probably are more boring looking movies now, I also wonder if it’s a part of a larger trend of less artistic movies period. I think the movies I end up liking are normally the more visually appealing ones, and while maybe I’m a dummy who just likes things that look good, it feels like some movies just have better… everything. Writing, direction, art direction, casting, everything. The video pointed out some examples of meh photography, but it actually did a lot more of showing good (older) photography, so I’m not sure I’m convinced it’s a problem for me per se. Some of the top notch movies that come out today are astounding to look at. For example he mentioned Nosferatu. That’s been a while at this point but damn that movie was amazing visually, and every other way. Sorta weird ending but I digress. Yeah maybe art direction is more meh now, but the movies I expect to look great typically do. /shrug
I remove my own upvote from my comments. It’s my weird thing I do haha
Yeah I agree, it feels like movies are sacrificing “art” for “clarity” if that makes sense. It reminds me of the yellow paint and popup tutorial plague in videogames. In older movies it kind of felt like you had to pay attention and notice details, and it was worth re-watching things because you’d experience it differently each time. Nowadays I don’t bother, because the entire experience has all been spoon fed directly into my nervous system