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Mar 2025
59m 56s

POST-PRODUCTION - with Ed Lachman

James Ellis Deakins, Roger Deakins
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 132 - Post - with Ed Lachman

In this special episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, cinematographer Ed Lachman (Season 1, Episode 77) joins us to talk about post-production from the point-of-view of a cinematographer. Throughout the episode, Ed shares a bounty of his own observations regarding colour, luminosity, and depth of field, and we share our own perspectives on the perceived effects of anamorphic and spherical lenses. We later discuss the fatiguing effect of a monotonous montage of dark images, and Ed reveals a recent revelation about the relationship between resolution and colour. We also discuss the different (and complicated) methods of mimicking film in digital images, and we reflect on the importance of making your image look the way you want in-camera. We also ask Ed what he might do differently today to achieve the same Douglas Sirk-inspired look of Todd Haynes’ FAR FROM HEAVEN, and Ed even brainstorms what he might do on his upcoming film shooting later this year.

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