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Valentina Vee
@valentinavee
Director & Cinematographer "menswear guy" of cinematic lighting
Mar 6 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
The lighting from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Red Carpet looked so glowy and beautiful?! I think I know why! It's because they used a style of lighting that I've NEVER SEEN ANY OTHER RED CARPET USE! 🧵 Image First off: I'm trying to use as many screenshots or photos WITHOUT FLASH as I can, because some photographers added flashes to their cameras which flatten the image. I want to only analyze the CARPET lighting - the one that was installed even before the photographers arrived. Image
Feb 6 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
No, you’re not crazy! Night scenes DO LOOK darker now than they did in the decades prior.

But it’s not because cinematographers refuse to light their scenes (common misconception). It’s because the STYLE of lighting has changed. Let me explain. 🧵 As cinematographers lighting a scene, we ask ourselves: “Where is the light coming from, if it were naturally in the environment?” Then we try to supplement that with our own lights. Here for example: the key light on the face could potentially be coming from a nearby storefront. Image
Jan 8 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
WHO DID THE LIGHTING for the THR round table this year BECAUSE I WANT TO KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH Image To light 7 people simultaneously and have it look good from every angle is a herculean feat! Especially when you compare it to the round table from 3 years ago, where it looks flat and lifeless. WHY IS THAT? Let me explain... Image
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Dec 13, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
What does it mean to be successful?

I often wonder this while contemplating my own mortality and its inevitability. And let's say I achieve success. What’s the point, if I’m going to die anyway?

I think I’ve found the answer. 🧵 Success comes upon the completion of a goal.

Quantifiable (10 pull ups),
temporal (do laundry tomorrow),
tangible (gold medal),
immaterial (learn French), or a combination of these.

Married (immaterial) with 2 kids (quantifiable) in a house I own (tangible) by 35 (temporal).
Sep 6, 2024 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Oh I know!

First let’s talk about the lights. They’ve got an array of 5 circular trusses. These contain moving beam lights (yellow), moving wash lights (green), followspots on the 3rd/4th rings (purple), and some sort of multi-diode panels or tubes on the outer ring (red). 🧵

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Image Now all these lights (except the tubes) are quite “spotty.”

They are direct and don’t spill out onto the people in the background.

Unlike panels, they’re going to create shadows under the chin/eyes. That’s why you need several of them from many sides hitting the same person.
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Mar 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Sucks that if you want more jobs as a DP, you gotta be an owner/operator and go into debt to buy a $60,000 camera that’ll be obsolete in 3 years. I truly think what’s holding me back from booking more is that I am camera-agnostic & prefer to rent what’s necessary for the job. Don’t even get me started on the “just rent it out, it pays for itself” argument. You either have to do it yourself and risk liability/theft or develop a relationship with a rental house that wants to house/rent that particular camera. And most of them are already full up.