TRIVIA - Films About Photographers

[@robertmiller5648]

This one was much tougher for me this time. 2800…..just didn’t know many of these! Loved playing it though……and loved remembering all those great movies.

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

Glad you thought it was fun!

[@Bob-g1i]

My recent favorite is about group of real war photographers in the early 90's shooting film cameras with bullets snapping by their heads, 2 of which produced Pulitzer winning images and 2 ended up getting shot. Capturing those images with manual focus, manual advance film cameras under fire is truly amazing. I also enjoyed the fictional Civil War with one photographer shooting an FE2 while the older, seasoned photographer shot digital. It has become my street rig with a 28 mm and iso 1000 zone focused. 1/4000 lets me open up quite a bit too.

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

I think that movie was based on a true story while these movies are Hollywood fiction. It would be a tough gig to shoot for sure.

[@tomislavmiletic_]

The first movie you are talking about I guess is "The Bang Bang Club", about the end of Apartheid in South Africa. And for the second one... these days, if you don't work for say National Geographic or something similar, working with film in the news is a pure suicide.

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

I wouldn't think you could shoot news with film now. The deadlines wouldn't really allow it. With digital people have their photos at the agency before I could get my film out of the camera. I think he was talking about Bang Bang Club. Very good movie but somewhat sad.

[@tomislavmiletic_]

@@stillshootinginblackandwhite Two decades ago when the film was still used occasionally (mostly due to still restricted resolution of then contemporary digital cameras) I could still count on 2 to 3 hours to develop the film, scan it, edit selected photos and send them. These days, if the deadline is really near, you set your camera to send your pictures directly over the phone or a laptop via FTP, meaning 0sec delay...

[@Bob-g1i]

@@stillshootinginblackandwhite Yes, Bang Bang club. My point is they produced those images with film cameras without all the modern technology including auto focus, changeable iso, auto exposure, instant review or transfer, not that it is or should be done today.

[@filmic1]

Wow, that was a really neat quiz, thank you very much. Yet to see Salvador, or Eyes of Laura Mar. Fun fun. (sub'd and 'liked')

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@themanfromphoto]

What, no "Under Fire"? Great film with Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman. What I couldn't wrap my head around in "Rear Window" is Grace Kelly is throwing herself at Jimmy Stewart and he's saying... No??!!

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

It's just that I haven't seen Under Fire. I'll check it out.

[@FrankTitzeArt]

I don't know "Salvador" yet, but you definitive need watch "Under Fire". It is in my mind the "Blow Up" - movie about photo journalism. Using the real photo journalism camera of the time: Nikon F2. ;-) BTW: For journalism (word +16mm film), see also "The Year of Living Dangerously". For Weegee and his photography in NY of 1940s, see "The Public Eye" In "Three Days of the Condor", the female photographer has NY street pictures at the wall. All with very well cast.

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

I have a few more movies to watch. lol

[@tomislavmiletic_]

4200, I guess. But let me get this straight... You are about my age or slightly older, you've worked in news outlets at least a good chunk of your career, yet you've never watched "Under fire", the movie that made me who i am? How the f*** did that happen??? 🤔 BTW, who the f*** is Taylor Swift? Sorry, I'm not an American...

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

I'm Canadian, but Taylor Swift is a singer that goes out with a football player and everyone loves her. I don't know any of her songs because Keith Richards doesn't play in her band.

[@tomislavmiletic_]

@@stillshootinginblackandwhite 🤣

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

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[@Bob-g1i]

@@stillshootinginblackandwhite But she's a Honkey Tonk woman? That song represents what happened to music in the 90's like digital did to photography. Keith points out that in the original recording, the cow bell begins off the beat, the drums come in off the beat and not til he started the guitar did they get it right. I listened to the intro an hour straight on a drive back from a shoot trying to figure out why I liked it so much and a quick search once home explained it. It's not perfect. In the 90's, in the studio "post processing" timing and pitch was perfected for every song, every one perfect. And as another KZbinr music producer Rick Beato said, that was the death of rock and roll.

[@stillshootinginblackandwhite]

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