But sometimes it does irk me a bit when I hear the blame being placed on the films/art directors/cinematographers when in reality most things are totally fine.
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Not everyone has uncompressed blu-rays to watch, not everyone has blackout curtains, not everyone has a nice TV they know how to calibrate. I realize not everything is feasibly fixable for everyone. They are watching things in low resolutions or with highly compressed streaming. They don't have their TV calibrated correctly (or a very cheap TV that can't achieve proper calibration) and their blacks are getting massively crushed which makes dark scenes impossible to see. They are watching something in a well lit room with a large amount of glare on their TV (and just don't mind under normal circumstances)
I realize this will come off as me being "that guy" and dismissing the concerns of individuals who are having legitimate issues, but I found a lot of the time with friends and family who have issues with this, it's one of several things: If you have to have your brightness or backlight set to max to see anything and your room is dark, it’s almost definitely this setting - bump that up a notch.Īll this confusion is why I’m so for Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson’s insistence on TVs coming with a proper goddamn cinema mode that doesn’t require users to dig through submenus to make movies look close to what was intended. Look up your TV on a site like to get a starting guideline for calibrating it your eyes will thank you and your TV will last longer when you’re not blowing out the backlight.
It’s usually buried in an advanced picture setting and the default usually might be fine for broadcast TV but stuff like Netflix (or virtually any movies) targets a 2.2 gamma setting, which might be called something different depending on your TV. Prey is extremely dull and under-lit, and while grey man is a bit better, you can tell a lot of work was done in color correction because it has a foggy/gray look to the blacks/shadows that have had their levels cranked).If you have a newer TV, usually the problem is the gamma setting which is set to “pop” by default (making brights brighter and darks darker) rather than look natural, which of course makes horror movies look like complete ass. I'd prefer to cut to the chase and see a film in black and white (with actual contrast) than the dull pastel mess that the bulk of tv and film has become (just look up at the reddit top bar at the stills from PREY and THE GRAY MAN. Big budget films are sometimes the only places you see this work now. I really miss bombastic expressionist lighting in films, especially indy films that have more room to play WRT stylistic decisions. The real idea of naturalism has to do with natural places that light comes from in a scene, color and so on, as opposed literal natural light, which is usually far too weak to show the contrast through a lens that we get from using our eyeballs in real life. You have to be blind not to have seen this trend.Īctual naturalistic cinematographers still use a lot of lighting. That is why almost everything in film and TV now is so dim and muted: cheapness disguised as a decision in taste. Our eyes have a huge dynamic range, so while it might be "naturalistic" through a camera lens, it's not compared to what we actually see. (Almost) everything now (especially indy films, but a lot of stuff that has a budget, too) is under-lit because filmmakers think they can get away with it by using a digital camera and call it "naturalistic".
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