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Eye Piece: How DP Daniella Nowitz of Live Cargo Captured a Surreal Bahamas in Black and White

Producer Thymaya Payne, during an initial phone call about our film Live Cargo, cut to the chase: “We’re shooting on…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

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 in the middle of…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

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 and brutal humidity can…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2016

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 on Drugs,” Moonlight is…

8 years ago
  • Summer 2016

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 Breathe In. Those films…

8 years ago
  • How They Did It

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 three-decade long association with…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Eye Piece
  • Winter 2016

Eye Piece: Colombian Stunner Embrace of the Serpent Renders the Amazon in Ghostly Silver

When director Ciro Guerra and producer Cristina Gallego gave me the script for Embrace of the Serpent, I took my…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: How Sarah Adina Smith Shot Three Visual Styles in Midnight Swim

For any filmmaker, switching genres between movies is a tough task. But Sarah Adina Smith decided to switch between genres…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Eye Piece
  • Fall 2015
  • Inside MM - Cinematography

Eye Piece: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth Wages Stare Wars in Super 16

Wielding old grudges and fierce regrets as sharpened weapons, two women reassess their friendship in Queen of Earth, an intense…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Documentary
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado on the Poetic, Portable Cinematography of The Salt of the Earth

The documentary The Salt of the Earth is a film about my father, the photographer Sebastião Salgado. The film structure…

9 years ago