#lenses

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using. ↗

— Donna Mills

#close #doing #gear #how #i

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#beholder #competence #contact #eye #eye of the beholder

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#along #camera #computer #concerned #days

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#catch #crazy #home #lenses #morning

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#embraces #interpreter #lenses #like #man

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality. ↗

— Michael Arlen

#century #different #existence #lenses #lessons

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#camera #certain #choose #commodity #create

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#child #distorted #history #knows #lenses

I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages. ↗

— Heather O'Reilly

#advantages #being #competitive #competitive advantage #contact