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John Dykstra

"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."

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"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."

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John Dykstra
"We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family."

Family

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John Dykstra
"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content."

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John Dykstra
"I like engineering, but I love the creative input."

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John Dykstra
"In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city."

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John Dykstra
"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image."

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John Dykstra
"As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate."

Contrast

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John Dykstra
"I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on."

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John Dykstra
"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."

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John Dykstra
"Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box."

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John Dykstra
"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."

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Aberjhani

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

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Aberjhani

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

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Aberjhani

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

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Aberjhani

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

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Aberjhani

"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."

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Aberjhani

"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."

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Aberjhani

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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Aberjhani

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."

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Aberjhani

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

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Aberjhani

"I've been working with photography for many years."

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