Kees van Oostrum, ASC
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Why Our Solidarity Is Now Essential
We must hold this trust in our work. Although we cannot practice it today because our world has shut down, it will open up again soon, and our conviction that we do what we love will make us rise again.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: The Art of Cinematography Part One — The Tail That Wagged the Dog
“In Art, the dog can wag the tail just as forcefully as the other way around.”
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Via Della Luce
In Rome, I was guided through the Via Della Luce — the “Street of Light” — and I was smiling.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: 99 Sizes
With the recent surge in the development and production of large-sensor digital cameras and all the format and lens choices, we are looking at an unprecedented number of options.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Film School Misery
“I found, in most instances, film school teaching was not always reaching an acceptable level of education.”
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Number “8”
A potential solution to how we identify ourselves as cinematographers might be to rely on numbers rather than abbreviations.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Optical Unconsciousness
When we talk about lenses for cinematography, most cinematographers are knowledgeable and opinionated.
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Why We Don’t Fart in an Elevator
Our industry has adopted the opinion that, based on the legal argument of the “work for hire policy” and the contractual clause that “signs over all rights,” any principles of civility are out the window.