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1- You should never believe that your opposition does not know their business. Do not take any project lightly.
2- Acquire fame as able, not as good.
3- To know how to recognize an opportunity in any struggle benefits you more than anything else.
4- Make your opposition suspect their own instruments in whom they confide.
Do not commit to any one solution.
5- Guard those places better by which you think you can be hurt less.
6- Don’t keep beside you either too great lovers of passiveness or too great lovers of passion.
7- Act so your opposition do not know how you want to organize your plans. But organize your team so they can support each other independently on the plan.
8- Never lead your team into a project unless you are assured of their commitment and confidence in the result. Discipline counts more than passion. Testing a plan helps with final results.
9- Train your team to get used to difficult situations and circumstances.
10- What benefits the opposition harms you and what benefits you harms the opposition.
11- Carefully detail your opposition and objective and plan accordingly.
12- Nature creates very few talents, but dedication and training make many.
13- Always, always consider and reserve resources for a plan B.
14- Keep your team focused until the results are obtained.
15- Organize a team so that is not specialized but flexible in all ventures. But always be clear on assigned tasks.
16- Counsel about options with many, but discuss details with few.
17- Never commit yourself to a specific task in a large project, unless necessity compels you or opportunity calls.
18- Do not rush but take a moment to analyze unexpected issues.
19- Love peace but be educated on how to be bold and move forward.
warontherocks.com/2016/12/machiavellis-rules-of-war/
Start here: https://www.pixelsham.com/2013/05/09/gretagmacbeth-color-checker-numeric-values/
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-color-checker-tool/
In LightRoom
in Final Cut
in Nuke
Note: In Foundry’s Nuke, the software will map 18% gray to whatever your center f/stop is set to in the viewer settings (f/8 by default… change that to EV by following the instructions below).
You can experiment with this by attaching an Exposure node to a Constant set to 0.18, setting your viewer read-out to Spotmeter, and adjusting the stops in the node up and down. You will see that a full stop up or down will give you the respective next value on the aperture scale (f8, f11, f16 etc.).
One stop doubles or halves the amount or light that hits the filmback/ccd, so everything works in powers of 2.
So starting with 0.18 in your constant, you will see that raising it by a stop will give you .36 as a floating point number (in linear space), while your f/stop will be f/11 and so on.
If you set your center stop to 0 (see below) you will get a relative readout in EVs, where EV 0 again equals 18% constant gray.
In other words. Setting the center f-stop to 0 means that in a neutral plate, the middle gray in the macbeth chart will equal to exposure value 0. EV 0 corresponds to an exposure time of 1 sec and an aperture of f/1.0.
This will set the sun usually around EV12-17 and the sky EV1-4 , depending on cloud coverage.
To switch Foundry’s Nuke’s SpotMeter to return the EV of an image, click on the main viewport, and then press s, this opens the viewer’s properties. Now set the center f-stop to 0 in there. And the SpotMeter in the viewport will change from aperture and fstops to EV.