The book explains how we see and what we don’t see. Relevant psychological principles will help you predict your viewer’s emotional reaction to your photographic images, giving you more power, control, and tools for communicating your desired message. more...

The Fifth Edition of The Camera Assistant's Manual has been completely updated to reflect the technology of today, providing crucial guidance to student filmmakers as they prepare to enter the professional world and work as camera assistants.

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Using five very different films, Southern Comfort, The Warriors, First Blood, Streets of Fire, and Innerspace, Andrew Laszlo discusses the specific challenges encountered in each. The author shows the broad range of complexity in motion picture photography, form its more...

There's more to being a DP than holding a light meter! With this book as your guide, you are on your way to learning not only about the equipment and technology, but also about the concepts and thought processes that will enable you to shoot professionally, efficiently, and with artistic mastery. A more...

Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals. This complete course in digital video lighting begins with how the human eye and the camera process light and color, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and more...

Watch Jon Fauer’s feature-length documentary Cinematographer Style and then read transcripts of the 110 interviews on which the movie is based. For two years, Fauer interviewed many of the world’s top cinematographers, who offer advice, anecdotes and interesting details about the projects on which more...

The 9th edition of the American Cinematographer Film Manual, edited by Stephen Burum, ASC is now available in a two-volume paperback edition. more...

Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a distillation of many years' experience, with advice more...

This handbook is a collection of the wide variety of theories, procedures and tactics used by the practicing motion picture camera assistant while working on location or on the professional film set. Since this book concentrates on the important facets of the camera assistants’ job on the set more...

Spanning the rich history of movie magic, this completely up-to-date guide to visual trickery is unparalleled in scope, presenting a clearly written, lushly illustrated chronicle of special effects development over ten decades of filmmaking. more...

The Two-Volume Paperback version of the 10th Edition of the American Cinematographer Manual is Now Available for pre-order from the American Society of Cinematographers. Known as the “Filmmaker’s bible,” for several generations, one of the world’s most widely used cinema reference books is more more...

Reflections examines the practice of cinematography for cinema lovers, students, and film professionals from the perspective of those artists who paint within the medium of light to dark. Each section contains extraordinary material in the form of illustrations, more...

This new edition of an all-time best-seller is completely revised and updated and details the components and step-by-step use of over forty of the most widely used film cameras. Significant new topics include time code and time code slates, video assist, and the Steadicam film stabilizing system. more...

Two essential works: the documentary film Cinematographer Style interviews 110 cinematographers to get to the heart of what cinematography is, and Reflections, using diagrams, interviews and film frames, deconstructs how classic film scenes were shot. more...