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Rian Johnson and Steve Yedlin launch cinematic Chromagraph iPhone app

Director Rian Johnson and cinematographer Steve Yedlin have designed Chromagraph, a new iPhone camera app built to make mobile photography behave more cinematically through custom color science.

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Cinematographer Steve Yedlin and director Rian Johnson have developed and launched a new iPhone camera application called Chromagraph, IndieWire reported. The application uses specialized math and color science to give mobile phone photography a more cinematic appearance. [1]

Yedlin discussed designing the app with IndieWire, explaining that he spent more than 20 years examining color science and technical tools to help filmmakers better craft imagery. The new application builds on his work attempting to make digital iPhone camera captures process color differently. [1]

As FTMQ Entertainment reported earlier, Johnson and Yedlin have collaborated for nearly 30 years, using the same digital image processing on feature films as the technology behind the new Chromagraph app. [7]

Yedlin has served as the cinematographer alongside Johnson on feature film projects including Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the Knives Out series, according to IndieWire and FTMQ Entertainment. [1][7]

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In short

  • Steve Yedlin and Rian Johnson designed and released the Chromagraph iPhone camera app.
  • The application relies on color science and mathematical tools to make mobile photos appear cinematic.
  • Yedlin has worked as a cinematographer on Johnson's films for nearly 30 years.

Sources

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  1. [1]The Mad (Color) Science Behind Rian Johnson’s New Camera AppIndieWire, 3h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]The Mad (Color) Science Behind Rian Johnson’s New Camera AppYahoo News UK, 3h ago
  3. [3]The Mad (Color) Science Behind Rian Johnson’s New Camera AppIMDb, 3h ago

Background

  1. [4]Nathan Johnson (musician) on Wikipedia
  2. [5]Vine (service) on Wikipedia
  3. [6]Color on Wikipedia
  4. [7]Rian Johnson and Steve Yedlin Launch Chromagraph Camera iPhone App FTMQ Entertainment, 2d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 7 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

Earlier reports of ours on the same people and subjects.

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