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Shedding Light: Watch This Enlightening Breakdown of DP Janusz Kaminski’s Signature Lighting Techniques (Video)
For every production, there are existing sets, and then there are additional set layers whose creation depends...
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Eye Piece: DP Philippe Le Sourd Shoots the Human Textures in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled
With The Beguiled—set at a girls’ boarding school in the South during the Civil War, and...
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Eye Piece: How and Why I Shot My Film The Nude with AJA’s CION 4K Camera
As much as every filmmaker wants to get their hands on a 4K capture system made...
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Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle
Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set...
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Frame of Mind: Watch How DP Toby Oliver Shot the "Sunken Place" Scene and Made Day Look Like Night in Get Out (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s...
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One-Stop Shop: Low-Budget Horror Feature American Gothic Made Blackmagic Design Work Three Times Over
This post was sponsored by Blackmagic Design. The lives of two convicts, Nick and Guy, are...
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Eye Piece: Dark Night Used Streetlights and Neon Signs to Give Natural Darkness a Haunting Glow
We shot Dark Night in June of 2015, in Sarasota, Florida: It was very hot and right...
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Charlotte Bruus Christensen: Why the Danish DP Was the Surprisingly Perfect Choice to Lens Fences
Danish cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen, known for her work with countryman Thomas Vinterberg (Submarino, The Hunt...
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Sharp Shooting: Assassin’s Creed’s Director and DP Reveal the Fundamentals of Effective Cinematography
If your list of top moviemaking concerns places items such as “performance” and “on-set rapport” above...
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The Rental House Rules: How to Get the Most of Your Equipment Rental House
There is a game in the world of moviemaking that you are most certainly set up...
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The Camera is a Dancer: DP Linus Sandgren Walks Us Through How He and Damien Chazelle Shot La La Land
Colors pop like old-fashioned jelly beans in La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s musical about struggling artists...
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From Storyboard to Screen: Director Soham Mehta Breaks Down the Shot Design of Run the Tide
Today, just days before the release of my first feature film, Run the Tide, flipping through...
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“Americana With a Hint of Jaundice”: DP Seamus McGarvey Talks Style, Mood of Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford, the director, writer and producer of Nocturnal Animals, turned up at a Bafta screening...
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Eye Piece: Like Cotton Twines Went Digital to Capture the Depth of Ghana’s Beauty
Shooting under the blazing hot sun in Ghana’s salt fields isn’t an easy feat. High temperatures...
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Lighting in a Bottle: Basic Lighting Ideas that Won’t Break the Bank
This is a quick guide to affordable lighting techniques that any production can—and should—practice. 1. Natural...
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Eye Piece: Moonlight DP James Laxton Illuminates Miami’s Bold, Blue, Beautiful Darkness
Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War...
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Capturing The Free World: A Quick Chat With Cinematographer Bérénice “Bear” Eveno
Cinematographer Bérénice Eveno, a.k.a. Bear, uses her camera to represent the complex themes of The Free...
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Eye Piece: How Dystopian Romance Equals Was Lit Entirely by Luminescent LEDs
As a cinematographer, I have made several movies with director Drake Doremus, including Like Crazy and...
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Eye Piece: How I Trained Astronauts to Shoot the Stunning 4K Footage in A Beautiful Planet from Space
A Beautiful Planet is the seventh IMAX film shot in space by astronauts, and continues a...
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Lurid Account: Luca Guadagnino on the Cinematography in A Bigger Splash
When I told StudioCanal that I was going to remake Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine, I...
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The Best Flying Cameras on the Market: 2016 Consumer Drone Round-Up
If just saying the word “drone” makes your eyes light up and your lips involuntarily whisper,...
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Shooting the Green Room: Full Interview with DP Sean Porter
We’ve covered Green Room‘s director and cast in previous articles this week. Today we round out...
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Make it Feel Real: How Moviemaker Robert Edwards Crafted the Illusion of Realism in One More Time
The old saying is “Write what you know.” But I know absolutely nothing about the world...
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Shot for Shot: DP Danny Cohen Discusses Three Key Scenes from The Program, Room and The Danish Girl
“For me, what’s exciting is doing a wide variety of work and trying to tell stories...
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