Cinematography

I’m a cinematographer and grip based in Los Angeles.

I have 6 years of continuing professional experience as a gaffer, key grip, best boy grip and dolly grip on commercials, low budget features and music videos, under some of the most talented cinematographers in the industry. I am now ready to shamelessly steal all of their lighting and camera movement techniques for the benefit of your project.

I have a great passion for lighting. A great film starts with what you put in front of the camera, after all! I don’t own any expensive camera gear so I won’t be pushing you to rent anything from me. I believe in choosing the right tool for each particular project and its budget level and not forcing everyone to use what I have just because it’s what I’ve got.

Here in Los Angeles we’ve got anything and everything available for rent so why be tied down to any one camera system? For me it’s all about using what best fits each individual project and working with the director and crew to push the story as far as we can (while still remaining as efficient as possible!)

Check out my cinematography reel and credits!

Check out some of the rigs I’ve worked on as a grip!

Recent Posts

“Innocence Blood” temporary location lighting grid

“We need to shoot a million pages in the lead actor’s tiny apartment in three days!!”

Working in the low budget indie world this actually wasn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with a situation like this.

One potential solution to speed things up a big is to hang a temporary lighting grid. Put everything on dimmers. Actors can go everywhere. No light stands to worry about when you turn around. And if you do it right, everything comes down without leaving a trace behind. It’s not perfect — You might not be able to make super fine tweaks and definitely don’t try to look up… but hey you’re trying to move quick so you gotta make some sacrifices somewhere :)

This particular case was on the set of Sun Kim and D.J. Holloway’s SAG ultra-low budget feature Innocence Blood, a film on which I had the great pleasure of serving as key grip along with gaffer Mike Jones and DP Francisco Bulgarelli. And yeah, we were really shooting in the lead actor’s apartment!

Video after the jump.

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