This sub is a platform to celebrate the art of cinematography, not for simply sharing favorite scenes (see r/cinescenes for that).
While we don't aim to dictate what constitutes interesting cinematography—that's for your votes to decide—posts that deviate from this spirit, such as those overly focused on dialogue, action, or the overall scene, will be removed.
We are here to help, please feel free to contact us if you have any queries about your post.
Where possible, choose single shots. If you do include multiple shots, there must be a clear relation and continuity between them.
If shots could be individual posts, consider choosing only the best, or splitting to separate posts, or taking stills.
Posts with more cuts invite more subjective moderation, and exceptions are at moderator discretion.
We strive for fairness, you can always contact us with any post queries.
When in doubt, shorter is safer. For scenes, go to r/cinescenes.
No promotional stills, trailers, and other materials not from a movie or TV show.
All titles must begin with the movie title and its release year in parentheses:
Citizen Kane (1941)
You may also add the director and/or cinematographer:
Pulp Fiction (1994) Dir. (or) Director: Quentin Tarantino
Fargo (1996) DoP. (or) Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
For TV content, you must include the episode title or numbering:
Game of Thrones (2011) - “The Rains of Castamere”
The Sopranos (1999) S06E21
Avoid reposting certain popular cine shots. You may check whether you are reposting by using the search bar and looking through the top results of the movie you intend on posting about.
Avoid reposting shots with 50 or more upvotes within the last 6 months. If a shot doesn't fit that criteria, you can repost it.
No collages, it defeats the purpose of enjoying cinematography. Single image albums should be used instead. Collages have been a major problem in the past here, so posting them will be dealt with minimum tolerance.
Mark your post with a spoiler and/ or NSFW tags (beside the Flair tag) when posting.
If you think somebody might get in trouble if someone sees them looking at your post, better mark it!
Do not edit the content you're submitting.
This includes but is not limited to: cropping, resizing, color grading, changing the speed or adding personal filters/watermarks/logos/audio.
Most commonly, if it's a film shot in 16:9 and you submit content in 4:3, it's getting removed.
We also remove posts that are of inferior quality, e.g. low resolution, pixelated image or taking a photo of your monitor.