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Freedom Fighter
Top: In the film’s opening scene, Lincoln visits with Union soldiers. Middle: The president considers his options in the Oval Office. Bottom: Lincoln reads to his son Tad (Gulliver McGrath).
Scenes set in Congress were shot in the Virginia State Capitol building, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson. The filmmakers needed to be able to shoot throughout the day and into the night while maintaining a consistent daylight look outside the building’s eight large windows. Outside the windows, Kaminski’s crew positioned eight Condors that each held two 18K HMI Fresnels through Hampshire Frost, “but there was very little we could do inside because it’s a historic structure,” says the cinematographer. “The chairs couldn’t be moved or removed, for example. We had to be very careful.” “If you light everything through the windows, you can seldom make a wrong choice,” Devlin observes. “You get natural-looking contrast in the scene, and you can move a lot faster. We worked closely with Rick Carter to get the right kinds of drapery on the windows — nothing too dense, and nothing too white. Rick chose a kind of shark’s-tooth material that wouldn’t bloom too much.” Inside, Kaminski used Lumapanel Ultras through large frames of ¼ Grid Cloth to shape the light around the performers. “I still shoot mostly around a T2.8/T4,” he says. “I don’t like going below T2.8; the shot becomes about focus at that point, and it can fall apart very quickly. T2.8/T4 seems to me to be the right exposure. The focus puller doesn’t have to kill
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Contents
Editor's Note
President's Desk
Short Takes: Swimmer
Production Slate: Rust and Bone • It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!
MI6 Under Siege
Ravishing Romance
Freedom Fighter
An A-Plus Event
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
2012 AC Index
In Memoriam: Harris Savides, ASC
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Jerzy Zielinski, ASC, PSC
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - Editor's Note
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - President's Desk
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - Short Takes: Swimmer
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American Cinematographer - December 2012 - In Memoriam: Harris Savides, ASC
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