I really like filming, do you like it at all?
Yes! I'm big into cinematography. It's an actual science and art of motion-picture photography, so it's very important to how the film gets made and how it looks. It includes things like recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, among other things.
That's awesome! Definitely, it's super complicated and it has evolved quite a bit since the early days.
Yeah, it involves things like using a lens to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images onto things like a light sensitive surface inside a camera when doing an exposure, in order to create multiple images. It's highly complex stuff.
I did not know all that, the things people are able to do with modern day cinematography is beautiful.
Yeah, and that's just part of the process. But the end result with photographic emulsion ends up being a series of invisible latent images on the film stock that's produced, and then these are taken to be chemically developed into an actual visible image. Tough work.
You're really beginning to make me appreciate all the complicated things that are able to make cinematography possible!
well as for entertainment purposes and mass communication.
History.
History Precursors.
In the 1830s, moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks, with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer (stroboscope) in Austria, Joseph Plateau (phenakistoscope) in Belgium, and William Horner (zoetrope) in Britain.
In 1845, Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera able to make continuous recordings of the varying indications of meteorological and geomagnetic instruments over time. The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some
. [Laughs.] So I got to do it, and we did it at a time when there really was no green screen for special effects. You had to shoot what was there. It's amazing how dated that film looks now, because of our ability to do things technically now. I mean, it really looks antiquated. Mare Winningham is one of the greatest actresses ever. It was eight weeks of night shooting, though, so you'd be driving home from work at, like, 6 in