Comments for Benjamin Eckstein

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Will Cavanagh

Will Cavanagh — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:52:58 +0000

Looks great Ben, the lighting is fantastic. The models creeped me out a bit though.

I have a question though — you said “histograms (for checking focus)”. Can you point me in the direction of an explanation of how to check focus with a histogram — I’ve only ever used them to check the exposure and contrast of an image.

Nice choice with 1901 btw.

–Will

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Brent Lestage

Brent Lestage — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:31:14 +0000

Oops — Meant to say 5D MkII, not 7D.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Brent Lestage

Brent Lestage — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:29:55 +0000

Ben,
Outstanding! Definitely like the look of the 7D over the Sony (if the whiter backgrounds are, in fact, the 7D).

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:54:47 +0000

Thanks Bill, that means a lot. Happy to have you check out my Canon sometime.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Bill Charette

Bill Charette — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:51:57 +0000

Hi Ben,

Very nicely done. I agree, the EX1 still shocks me when I see stuff I’ve shot on a good HD monitor. And I love the look of the new DSLR Canon’s. Would love to experiment with a couple of good low light lenses. You remind me of how much fun shooting can be. Keep up the good work. You inspire me.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:15:08 +0000

I don’t mess around!

I have 1 Kino, and the others we rented for the shoot. I want another daylight balanced light, though. Thinking of the Wescott TD5 or the Lowel Rifa X-Change system.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Rob Imbs

Rob Imbs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:13:50 +0000

zylight and kino flo, man you got some useful lights.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Josh

Josh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:14:24 +0000

As promised, this is indeed pretty geeky. But the footage looks fabulous and as far as I am concerned, anything that brings you to NYC is a good thing.

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:01:23 +0000

Thanks Rob. The photographer did a series of shots with some strong flare and I thought I wanted to try to match that. I tried it with my Zylight but didn’t get the look I wanted. The art director, Stephanie, said she had seen it done with a Maglite so we tried that on a stand with a Mafer clamp and that did the trick!

Comment on Beauty and Beautiful Cameras by Rob Imbs

Rob Imbs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:57:39 +0000

Love the opening shot and the direct lens flares, really pretty stuff Ben, nice work!

Comment on Meeting of the Minds by Rob Imbs

Rob Imbs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:51:29 +0000

Pretty stuff, sounds like you had a lot of fun, I’d be excited to use that kind of glass as well.

Comment on Do We Need 3-D? by Tony Loftis

Tony Loftis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:55:14 +0000

I don’t know if the movie as art industry needs 3D, but the business of making money in Hollywood need 3D to get people to leave their homes to go to the movie theater. See this BusinessWeek article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_05/b4165048396178.htm.

Also, the New Yorker has a nice piece on him as well.

Comment on Do We Need 3-D? by Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:18:41 +0000

Yeah, I imagine the HD format wars will slow down the progress of 3-D. I never even thought of having to wear glasses to edit, but yes, that would be a huge pain.

Comment on Do We Need 3-D? by Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:13:56 +0000

I agree. I found in Avatar I was too caught up in figuring out HOW to watch this, and that was distracting. I guess if 3-D becomes the norm then we’ll get used to it, but I also though it all seemed less sharp than a nice HD 2-D display would have been.

By the way, your profile picture looks EXACTLY like my father. I would love if you could send me that picture so I could send it to him.

Comment on Do We Need 3-D? by Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:12:14 +0000

I was informed tonight that there is technology to create 3-D displays that don’t require glasses, but they do require you to sit in exactly the right spot. But it will probably improve. I just hope we always have the choice of 3-D or 2-D programming. We’ll see, I guess.