After years of looking at dynamic range charts I noticed that almost all camera gamma curves emphasize mid-tones within...

Incident meters can only tell you how much light is striking them, and nothing about how bright things are...

For the first time in probably four years, I actually worked with–and handled–film today. It hit me that this...

This industry is full of little tricks that, when properly employed, can make us all look like inhumanly fast...

I don’t watch a lot of cooking shows, but the ones I see are not lit the way I...

Adam Wilt and I presented a talk about the new Sony FS700 camera to an audience at CineGear 2012....

I love stacking cucolorii (plural of “cucoloris”) and I thought it was time to write an article about how...

When production companies ask me to shoot spots on the Canon 5D MkII I don’t flinch anymore. Sure, it’s...

Is bounce light really just about aiming a light at a white card and walking away? No. There are...

There are few things more elegant than lighting a shot with a single light source. It doesn’t always work,...