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Filmmaker's Forum
Filming With Firearms
Firearms experts and cinematographers form relationships that go beyond mutual respect. We share many characteristics. We want it good, we want it safe, we want it quick, and we want it within budget.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Never Regret Thy Fall
As cinematographers, we adapt. The goal is to satisfy our hunger to seize new ground, to make powerful imagery, and to work without a map — or a net.
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TheFilmBook
Bruno ExcelLens — Watching Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC Accept his Angénieux Award
An account of Angenieux' ExcelLens tribute to Bruno Delbonnel with photos and video.
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John's Bailiwick
Monument Valley in the Movies
It not only embodies the most iconic desert imagery of American movies, but also represents the very idea of the American West. Monument Valley may be only 13 square miles of red-rock sand, but it is country of heroic imaginings.
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Shot Craft
Pro Perspective: Ian S. Takahashi — Taking the Plunge
What happens when a story takes us underwater? How many of us have the first clue how to photograph action that takes place in such a radically different environment?
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John's Bailiwick
Visions of Light Revisited
Whenever I get a Google Alert, I tend not to open it. This one was a delightful surprise, however.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: An Artist, a Murderer and a Cinematographer
It can be said that Eadward Muybridge’s first experiment with instantaneous photography was the point at which cinematography was born.
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Shot Craft
Deep Focus: Diopters
Understanding the use of these close-up lens attachments that can bring us extremely close to a subject or carry focus between planes.
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