johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
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Working with vision, speed and an inherently collaborative nature, John Brawley has developed a reputation as one of Australia's most talented and sought after Directors of Photography. Since graduating with an MA from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, he has built an impressive slate of feature films and television credits including some of Australia's most loved shows.
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
1y ago
My colleague Ron from SIMMOD sent me these early pre-production samples of the ARIA Black Mist filters and I’ve finally gotten around to trying them out. The Aria Black Mist filter to the eye seems to be a kind of ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
1y ago
A quick example with the 12K UMP I just received my Laowa 12mm T2.9 PL mount lens. It’s official name is actually… Laowa 12mm T2.9 Zero-D Cine This is a really interesting lens, as it’s very small, very wide and ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
2y ago
It’s one of the easiest things to test, and yet I rarely see it being done. I’ve always tried to test the actual ND filters I’m using or might be using every time on every new show. The combination of ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
3y ago
It’s been a few weeks since Blackmagic Design announced their radical new sensor design packaged in the form of the Ursa Mini Pro 12K camera. I’m in pre-production on a film shooting on northern Ontario Canada. In the story weather ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
One of the amazing developments with this new sensor is the ability to shoot the same full sensor raster or size at different resolutions without having to crop. Typically when shooting st different resolutions we’d expect that the sensor would ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
You probably know the sketch from Spinal Tap ? Where Nigel Tufnal, lead guitarist of Spinal Tap shows off his specially made Marshall guitar amp where all the dials go to 11 ? You may then have had a similar reaction to ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
Here’s a little podcast chat I had with my long time colleague and friend Illya Friedman. It’s less tech geek and more philosophy slanted which I love ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
Here’s the camera original files from my very good friends at Digital Pigeon. Please practice responsible downloading. If you download all of these then it’s 80GB of camera files. Here’s my compilation in the blind test form and with the ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
I always love a blind test. It takes away the prejudice one might bring when you’re trying to scrutinise images. I always like to test like this at the beginning of each project. I usually end up with a short ..read more
johnbrawley | ramblings of a cinematographer
4y ago
Here’s a short I did a little while using the Olympus E-M1 II. It was shot using the internal 4K codec, and using the Olympus Pro lenses. I used a mix of the primes, the 17, 25 and 45mm mostly ..read more