“Natural” Lighting For Interior Sets

Arthur C. Miller, ASC discusses his lighting approach to five different scenes, detailing each with diagrams.

Adam Greenberg on The Terminator

Cinematographer Adam Greenberg discusses his visual approach and collaboration with writer-director James Cameron on this sci-fi hit.

Hell on Wheels: Collateral

Paul Cameron and Dion Beebe, ACS push hi-def video to its limits for this crime thriller, which chronicles a hit man’s nocturnal killing spree.

Jurassic Park: When Dinosaurs Rule the Box Office

You can't measure the expectations for the film version of Jurassic Park in ordinary terms, because the level of anticipation is way off the charts.

Key Light vs. Background Illumination

In this entry in our “Classic Lighting” article series, Karl Freund, ASC details the relationship between lighting, exposure and printing to maintain consistent facial tones.

Wrap Shot: Dark Passage

After shooing To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, cinematographer Sidney Hickox, ASC completed a Bogart/Bacall film noir trifecta with this 1947 classic.

Photographing Apollo 11

Looking back on the immense efforts taken to photograph the 1969 lunar landing mission — with the astronauts becoming honorary Society members for their outstanding efforts. (Introduction by James Neihouse, ASC.)

Wrap Shot: Carrie (1976)