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Open Mike (a day late): The Way Photographs Should Look This is an awkward subject, and I'm sure my attempts to verbalize it will be awkward and perhaps inept. So please forgive me if my words are insufficient. I'm hoping I'll manage to communicate anyway—that you'll "know what I mean." All photographs translate the visual world we see with our eyes into some form or other. All of these forms have characteristics. With experience, we learn what characteristics belong to which equipment, techniques, and tastes. So my question is, do you have a favorite kind of way that you prefer photographs...

Who is Bunny and what killed him or her? A long time ago, some literary friends were arguing about what allows readers to get "pulled into" a book of fiction. They were arguing nuts and bolts—one was claiming that Hemingway's simple, declarative style allowed more readers "a way in" to the stories he was telling, because more of them could understand him easily. Here's an example of his prose, in case you've heard of him but never read him: Manuel drank his brandy. He felt sleepy himself. It was too hot to go out into the town. Besides there was nothing to do. He wanted to see Zurito. He wo...

Why we still shoot black and white film March 1, 2021 Black & white film still has the ability to inspire passion and creativity in its users, even in this digital age. We talk to three photographers who continue to embrace the medium in very different ways Esther May Campbell Film photography has been in Esther May Campbell’s blood since childhood. She was given a Polaroid camera when she was eight years old, but it was the Olympus OM1 she received in her early teens that really changed things. ‘My teens were quite tricky times,’ she explains. ‘I was at a fairly dishevelled all-girls...

Guest Editorial: Inoculating Your Film From COVID in Seven Steps February 11, 2021 07:30 | By Staff Intro by We’ve been covering the return to production quite heartily here at  Below the Line, and every once in a while something hits my inbox that seems perfectly attuned to what is on all of our minds, and that is how everyone can return to work safely with COVID-19 not seemingly going away any time soon. With that in mind, we’re sharing this piece from entertainment attorney Harris  Harris Tulchin & Associates/ Tulchin Entertainment is an international entertainment law firm, me...

Nayak in 1966. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Mitra conducted regular workshops at the Film and Television Institute in India. Just like Ritwik Ghatak had fired the minds of direction students in a previous generation, Mitra laid open the secrets of the camera for a new breed of technicians. They included Virendra Saini, Anil Mehta, KU Mohanan, Dilip Varma, Sunny Joseph and Anoop Jotwani, who would go on to become eminent cinematographers in their own right. “He was like an Impressionist painter who would concentrate on different tones on the face,” Virendra Saini said. “The background ...