Lighting for mixed stills and motion
12 March 2026
How we plot a day that has to yield both a hero still and usable coverage without relighting every setup.
Journal
Notes from set and from the grading desk.
Compositing CGI so it does not announce itself
18 January 2026
Product renders fail when the light in the CG does not match the plate. Look-dev starts on set, not in the CGI room.
Call sheets that protect the idea
9 December 2025
A shot list is not a wish list. It is the order of work when the weather, the talent, or the building turns.
Archives that another team can open
16 September 2025
Delivery is not a dump of folders named ‘final_v7_REAL’. It is a structure a stranger can traffic.
Locations that survive a second setup
28 August 2025
A beautiful square at 8:00 can be a crowd at 11:00. We recce for the whole plot, not the first still.