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It's rare but exhilarating when you find a movie that offers a unique take on film's visual language without relying on the crutch of extensive computer-generated imagery. That's precisely the [...]

Jon Stewart's directorial debut would have been a wonderful project for any cinematographer as it is on many levels about about light versus darkness. Based on journalist Maziar Bahari's book [...]

The Showtime series The Affair offers cinematographer Steven Fierberg, ASC, the opportunity to shoot a television series with the cinematic approach he's brought to his many indie features, including cult [...]

Directed by Fred Savage, IFC's satirical and saucy new series Garfunkel and Oates premiered in August, serving up the ukulele and guitar-wielding comedy-folk duo of Riki Lindhome (New Girl, Hell [...]

Starz' new original series Outlander, adapted from the hit time travel books by Diana Gabaldon and headed up by Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore, had its debut in August, [...]

Christopher Guest's latest project, the HBO original series Family Tree, features many of the hallmarks of the other 'mockumentary' films he's directed, including This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, [...]

Set in a post-apocalyptic future without electricity or any of the technology we rely on today, NBC's Revolution tells the story of a young woman, Charlie (newcomer Tracy Spiridakos), who [...]

Although the six-part BBC series Wolf Hall, airing on PBS' Masterpiece this spring, is set in 16th century England, it was designed to look naturalistic and immediate--decidedly unlike a historical [...]

Created by executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire), FOX's Star follows three singers on the road to stardom. The series' pilot was shot by cinematographer Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC, using Panasonic [...]

Billed as a web series about dressing like a grownup, Put This On is the brainchild of series creators Jesse Thorn (@JesseThorn) and Adam Lisagor (@lonelysandwich). The show offers sartorial [...]

Cinematographer Jeffrey Jur, ASC, admits he had some concerns before he signed on to shoot the current season of the turbulent Showtime series Dexter. His concern wasn't about the cinematography; [...]

Phedon Papamichael, ASC, selected Codex's Action Cam point, shoot and record packages for a promotional video about the Infiniti QX50 SUV. Papamichael shot handheld location and road footage himself. 'We [...]

In the middle of nowhere, I need my images and footage to live safely on an indestructible set of hard drives. There are no do-overs on these projects and space [...]

Cinematographer and VFX technical director Christopher Webb captured the essence of the BMW i8 with 'i8 Illumination,' a 60-second film realized entirely with in-camera visual effects. Webb and his team [...]

Elementary is a CBS crime drama series that puts a contemporary spin on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes characters, with Lucy Liu playing a female Dr. Watson to Jonny [...]

I received a letter from a longtime reader who just shot a project for 'one of the most penny-wise and pound-foolish producers I have ever worked for,' he says. 'At [...]

I recently tried Zacuto's Next Generation Recoil Rig on 'Miss Earth,' a short film that features aliens fighting an epic intergalactic battle. My go-to cameras are Canon DSLRs and the [...]

A common problem with shooting panel discussions is remembering the names of the participants, particularly if there are multiple panels each day. instead of using names, one director I work [...]

One of the joys of a lighting director's life is working in a studio with a grid full of lighting instruments. One of the pains of a lighting director's life [...]

Nearly a decade ago, actor Zach Braff directed Garden State and a cinematographer fairly new to features, Lawrence Sher, shot it. The two have reteamed for Wish I Was Here, [...]

Keeping a consistent look on a multicamera shoot is always a challenge. Mike & Molly cinematographer Gary Baum has found that shooting four HD cameras simultaneously might not give him [...]

When I shot Much Ado About Nothing for director Joss Whedon, we used the Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass Optic on a Canon EOS 7D to shoot all of the [...]

Recently Band Pro Film & Digital delivered my new set of Summicron-C lenses. I'd always loved Leica M and R still lenses and was impressed by the Leica Summilux-Cs--the new [...]

Set in 1963, The Watsons Go to Birmingham depicts a fictional family's road trip as it intersects with a true-life bombing during the turbulent civil rights era. Cinematographer James Chressanthis, [...]

The ARRI Ultra Wide Zoom (UWZ) is of really stunning quality, with none of the distortion you would expect from such wide focal lengths. The image stays rock solid. I [...]

Cinematographer Lucas Lee Graham says that for the independent film Cold Turkey, he wanted 'an intimate, personal look with a really shallow depth of field and nice portraiture so that [...]

Although The Crash Reel focuses on half-pipe snowboarding champion Kevin Pearce, one of the most riveting scenes shows no snowboarding at all. The film, directed by Lucy Walker, is really [...]

On the Showtime series Shameless, the biggest challenge is to 'keep the lighting setup time down to around 15 to 20 minutes,' according to gaffer David St. Onge. 'We shoot [...]

Director Roland Emmerich and cinematographer Anna Foerster, ASC, selected ARRI Alexa cameras and Codex Onboard Recorders to capture the action for White House Down. 'We knew we'd have a lot [...]

To capture the Hallmark Channel movie The Confession, cinematographer Dan Kneece relied on ARRI's Alexa and an OConnor 2575 fluid head. One of the cinematographer's challenges was capturing a car [...]

Cinematographer Linus Sandgren loves to push boundaries. He did so recently for director John Hillcoat and musician Trent Reznor's new band, How to Destroy Angels. For the video 'Ice Age,' [...]

Cinematographer Mark Gambol is using two Panasonic AG-HPX250 P2 HD hand-held camcorders with 10-bit, 4:2:2, 1920 x 1080 resolution AVC-Intra recording to shoot the syndicated teen series Awesome Adventures. 'I [...]

Cinematographer Colin Rich's newest time-lapse video, 'NightFall,' was captured using Matthews Studio Equipment's FloatCam DC Slider system. A counterbalanced, multi-function, multi-angled camera platform, the FloatCam DC Slider can also serve [...]

The VH1 comedic drama series Single Ladies follows four modern women and one gay man looking for love and romance in Atlanta. For the hour-long scripted show, cinematographer Joaquin Sedillo [...]