His sharply focused black-and-white imagery documenting housing construction in Colorado appears dispassionately objective, as if made by an insurance adjuster.
ON THE SCREEN -- Tightly focused black-and-white video of Mr. Franks's face fills the screen, and the camera zooms in closer and closer until only his eyes can be seen.
Close, still a frequent user, created tightly focused black-and-white portraits that typically sell for thousands of dollars.
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The grainy, out-of-focus black-and-white footage shows black men playing baseball in a grassy field for 26 seconds.
But the most prominent photograph, about 12 by 18 inches, is an out-of-focus black-and-white portrait of an elderly man, Josef Gingold, tuning a violin.
While the more intriguing pictures in a book shot in Mr. Dweck's unchallenging soft-focus black-and-white style ("I didn't want to do documentary," he said.
It's a version of the latter Nast Santa, dating from 1881, that we glimpse in Matt Tavares's grainy, soft-focus black-and-white pencil drawings for " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
The cover, interestingly enough, is an out-of-focus black and white photo of a man.
The director and his fledgling cinematographer, Lukasz Zal, shot the movie in hard-focus black and white; they have produced images so distinct and powerful that they sharpen our senses.
The system was calibrated daily using a standard procedure to ensure proper focus, black and white level balance for each microscope objective and linear camera outputs.
