Jay Holben
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Shot Craft
Shot Craft: A Look Back — New Media as Training Ground
ASC members Tommy Maddox-Upshaw and Alice Brooks explain how they cut their visual teeth on web series early in their careers.
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Shot Craft: ASC Members and Mentors
Conversations with some of the Society’s newest members about their mentors and how they pay it forward.
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Shot Craft: The Art of Exposing Film
This post covers the fundamentals of exposing film emulsions, kicking off a series of periodic columns about shooting and working with film.
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Shot Craft: Moiré and the Fashion of Harry Nyquist
What happens when we try to photograph a pattern that exceeds what a camera system can reproduce? What if we violate the Nyquist limit of the system?
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Shot Craft: The Talking Head — Shooting Interviews
The “talking head” interview tasks the cinematographer with balancing proper modeling of the face while maintaining the project’s overall tone and style.
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Shot Craft: Anatomy of a Scene — Loki
We take a detailed look at the show’s three-minute continuous sequence in the episode “Lamentis.”
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Shot Craft: Large-Format Cinematography — A Close-Up
Shooting “large format” is one of the most popular current trends in cinematography. It’s a hot option for filmmakers, but there are quite a few misconceptions about LF and its usage.
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Shot Craft: Follow the Sun
Cinematographers working in independent film must learn to make the most of limitations — limited funds, limited time, limited gear and limited crew — in order to realize the director’s vision.