Star Trek @startrek.website Wooster @startrek.website 11 mo. ago

Ship Lighting

My biggest complaint with Live Action Trek vs the two Animation shows is that they seem obsessed with giving us a black ship on a black background. It’s nice to be given a reprieve, even if for only one episode.

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I've never understood the complaints about lighting on the new treks. We're watching on big HDR enabled screens now, the lighting is appropriate for them.
- Tons of people don’t have HDR yet. It takes a while for tech to spread, especially when it’s not something many people are gunna go replace a several hundred dollar device for, nor is it necessarily a selling point when shopping for new TVs.
  
  I thought my 4k smart tv was new enough to have it by default since I bought it in 2019, but it doesn’t.
  
  Really, I'm on my second HDR enabled screen now and that was from 2020, the previous one dated back to 2016 and had it.
Literally a ship in space with next to no light.

The live action version is more realistic.
- the extra light comes from the same place as the music actually
  
  I see, the camera just has a sun attached to it then? cool. no problem.
I definitely prefer the darker version, it seems a lot less artificial. To me, the brighter ship looks rendered, as if I was looking at a video games' screenshot.
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