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.
Why we grade stills with the film
2 February 2026
Matching a retouched still to a show LUT is not a courtesy, it is how a campaign holds together in a media mix.
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.
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.