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a place where that was the only possible
way to do it."
As an example, Ackroyd points
to a scene in the Maersk Alabama's
engine room, when the emergency
lights go off and the crew hides in darkness. Exposure was a good 2 stops
under. "I like the feeling that the film
stock is struggling to get something
onto the negative," he says. "When I get
to the DI, I might wonder why I did
that, but at the time, I just felt it was
right. I've always thought that in documentary work, the shot that's underexposed or scratched or blurred lends
honesty to the story. Nowadays it's a
trick, but I like the sense that this is
what was necessary."
Ackroyd knew the Fuji stock
would also excel in high-contrast situations, such as the pirates' dramatic
takeover of the cargo ship, when their
ebony faces were backlit by the wraparound windows on the bridge.
"Because we were at sea, there was no
way of lighting or diffusing that," says
Ackroyd, who even eschewed bounce
materials while cross-shooting this
partially ad-libbed scene. "I just trusted
the film stock to cover that range of
exposure."
Although the ship had its own
pull-down ND shades, "they had a
slight magenta tinge," he continues.
"We used them occasionally, but mostly

Top: A tense
Phillips considers
what to do.
Middle: Muse and
Najee threaten
Phillips on the
bridge. Bottom:
Steadicam
operator Cosmo
Campbell films Ali
and Abdirahman.

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