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What’s In Your Kit? Flea Market Finds and Stolen Headwear in Wild Nights with Emily DP Anna Stypko’s Offbeat Inventory
I shot Wild Nights with Emily (writer-director Madeleine Olnek’s comedic biopic about the writings and romantic...
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If Beale Street Could Talk DP James Laxton on Using the Large Format Alexa 65 Freely for Barry Jenkins’ Period Romance
Director Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton have enjoyed a meteoric rise through the industry together,...
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Eye Piece: Spherical Lenses and Calculated Color Choices Allowed the Visuals of Birds of Passage to Take Flight
Depicting the ancestral culture of the Wayuu—a Native American group indigenous to northern Colombia—and shedding light on their complex relationship with death and...
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Looks That Kill: Eleven Horror DPs Reveal the Tricks and Tech Behind the Year’s Scariest Shooting Schemes
Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and...
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Eye Piece: How Mandy DP Benjamin Loeb Custom-Lit a Quarry, Custom-Fit a Chemistry Lab Set, and Shot a Chainsaw Fight and an Actual Tiger
I knew that jumping into the warped mind of director Panos Cosmatos to make Mandy was...
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Captivating Looks: Cinematographer Hagen Bogdanski on Updating the Prison-Buddy Drama Papillon
Papillon‘s arresting looks are no matter of judicial negligence. German cinematographer Hagen Bogdanski’s breakout film, the 2006 Stasi...
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Eye Piece: DP Shabier Kirchner Lensed Skate Kitchen on Wheels, But Didn’t Skate Through His Demanding Shoot
As DP on Skate Kitchen—writer-director Crystal Moselle’s first narrative feature about an all-female skateboarding crew coming...
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What’s in Your Kit? Pocket-Sized Prep and Beer-Proof Gear In DP Christopher Blauvelt’s Simple Yet Effective Arsenal
Lensing and re-lensing Oregonian terrain through fresh eyes has become something of a cottage industry for...
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Stealing the Shot: Ocean’s 8 Cinematographer Eigil Bryld on the Style and Influences of a Scenic Career
Danish cinematographer Eigil Bryld is an inspired choice to shoot Ocean’s 8—a heist caper that looks...
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What’s in Your Kit? Fast, Reliable Zoom and Prime Lenses Were Supreme Choices For RBG’s Cinéma Vérité Approach
Having the opportunity to bear witness and document the big and the small moments of this...
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Taking Your Best Shots: Kodak President of Motion Picture and Entertainment Steve Bellamy on the Value of Film
Obituaries written about the death of film have proven to be inaccurate, based upon the current...
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The Post’s Production: Longtime Spielberg-DP Janusz Kaminski Expresses Himself Through Light
While growing up in Communist Bloc Poland, Janusz Kaminski was permitted by the government to watch...
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Discover Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ Most Trusted and True Visual Techniques (Video)
One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always...
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Come To The Light: Thelma DP Referenced Classic Paintings and Cartoons to Create A Horror Milestone
Thelma is a supernatural thriller about a young woman unaware that she possesses special powers. It’s...
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Looks That Kill: DP Haris Zambarloukos Talks Shooting Murder On the Orient Express in Glorious 65MM
Haris Zambarloukos began collaborating with acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh in 2007 on the Michael Caine vehicle Sleuth....
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Fearful Visions: Horror Cinematographers Reveal Their Secrets
As part of our 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies (available in our new print issue...
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The Best Cameras for Every Budget: Ace One of the Biggest Decisions in Making your Feature
Everybody wants a full palette of colors to paint with, though chances are you might not...
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Eye Piece: Mirrors, Neon Signs and Other Lighting Tricks Create Disorientation in DP Peter Flinckenberg’s Woodshock
I was not familiar with Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s impressive career in fashion, but from the...
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How They Did It: This Cinematographer Shot and Survived Explosive Wildfires For The Netflix Doc Series Fire Chasers
Exploding propane tanks and live rounds, swirling firestorms, 10-ton airborne retardant drops, invisible fire pits and...
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Why Your Camera’s Auto Function Isn’t Your Friend: An Excerpt from You Can Be a Film-maker e-Book
With his new e-Book You Can be a Film-maker, British documentary and corporate filmmaker Martyn Moore...
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Need For Speed: Don’t Write Off Using Differing Shutter Speeds In Your Project (Video)
A comprehensive filmmaker’s toolkit is grown slowly over time: picking up technical knowledge here and there...
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