Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts – vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s ...

Whether creating your own films or acting in a major studio production, understanding the craft of filmmaking will improve your performance and make you the crew’s best friend. Dipping your toe into ...

Regardless if you think the long, continuous take illusion of “1917” is immersive brilliance, or gimmicky showmanship, it’s hard not to be impressed by how the camera moves so precisely, in seemingly ...

CONVENTIONAL CAMERAS focus light onto a recording medium to preserve an image as a field of tiny dots. The media have changed over the years from plates of silver to plates of glass to acetate films ...

Cinematographer Roger Deakins and camera operator Charlie Rizek discuss how the Trinity was used to pull off some of the more difficult shots. Regardless if you think the long, continuous take ...