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Bounce light

Sunlight through the window

Product lighting

Creating interesting walls

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Support black filmmakers and cinematographers

Refer black cinematographers to producers and directors

Hire black individuals for your crews

Blackmagic Design suggests user roll back cameras from 6.9.3 to 6.9.2
URSA mini pro 4.6k, g2, and broadcast cameras

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Carry only two lenses a wide and telephoto lens - too many lenses is a burden

Keep your kit lightweight - strip everything that isn’t necessary

Do not bring a light - it will bring attention to you

Always be aware of your surroundings

Bring more batteries and cards than you’ll need

Our brain is the 1, and only, essential tool we have.

After a certain level, producers are not hiring you for your gear, but for your mindset and abilities.

Develop your mindset daily.

Grit and determination

Visual inspiration

Education

Shooting

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Sharpness isn’t truly a factor when it comes to shooting more resolution.

More lifelike and accurate dimensionality to the image (smoother curves)

We can actually see past 4k

More pixels mean more photo sites and that means more color information

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The Mixbook is a pocket LED light that can emulate any RGB Rosco gell.

The Mixbook is priced at $94

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Sony A7Sii - $1,998

Full frame

E mount

Micro HDMI

Blackmagic Pocket 6K - $1,995

6K

USB-C port

Dual native ISO 400 & 3200

Includes Resolve license

Internal compressed RAW & PR422 HQ

Canon EF mount

Panasonic GH5 - $1,297

20.3 MP

Internal 400Mbps 4:2:2 recording

Micro 4/3 sensor and mount