Bulgaria! Holy wow. I just basically lived at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria for 6 weeks! It was my first time in Bulgaria, although Bulgaria had been trying to come in to my life ...
Week 2! Wow. We are now half way through a small, character-driven, feature-length drama… shot entirely by film students, under our supervision. It’s a truly unique opportunity for these students to endure an entire feature ...
Making The Movie Friday was Day 1 of the “Making the Movie” feature film program at Nu Boyana Film School. I’ve joined this new film education program to take 40 students on a 6 week ...
Very excited to be a part of the first year of film education at Nu Boyana! More details to come from this new film school in Bulgaria, very soon!
Start Simple Lighting schemes can become extremely complicated, but they can also be very simple. When you are first starting out, start simple. (Watch my Two-Minute Lighting Tutorial) Whether I have two lights in the ...
As a fledgling Cinematographer, coming to LA in 2003, I was always forgetting that I was a woman. I was very fortunate to grow up surrounded by a sense of equality between the sexes; such ...
I learned a lesson on this shoot. One I'll not soon forget. We shot "Bachelor Night" with the Red Scarlet and Optimo DP Zooms. Read More...
Back in 2009, I was interviewed for the comprehensive online film course “FilmSkills.com”. It was an intense five-hour interview on cinematography, discussing lighting, cameras, composition, technique, aesthetic, you name it… One hundred professionals were interviewed ...
Lighting is an incredibly complex field, and to be a gaffer or cinematographer is to commit to a life long journey in the study of lighting. At the same time, we can get real about ...
As NAB is around the corner again this year and we all get excited about the premiere of new gear, I am reminded about the simplest gear… Sometimes we can’t afford to have all of the ...
Subscribe to my Cinematography channel on You Tube!
My good friend and long-time collaborator, Mike Verta, has been sharing his unique skills and insight in a series of online master classes! The reviews have been insane, and there is no question that $30 ...
I’m still shooting the “Tableau Vivant” feature, but I had a little time this week to make it out to Vegas for NAB.
Red has been a polarizing addition to the production world since their introduction in 2006… At the end of the day, Red Epic is good enough for Peter Jackson and cheap enough for the average ...
(I am a nerd.) This past December, I attended Reducation at Red Studios in Hollywood. This was a 5-day immersion in the “Red Revolution”. The first two days were primarily hands-on/practical testing of the Red ...
Having a camera which looks "that good" and is "that small" in the hands of a professional artist it, is revolutionary and exciting (despite all of the "DSLR drawbacks") Click to read more...
