Originally a short film I was tasked with creating for my Film Studies A-Level, I remake it every couple of years to see how I have grown as a cinematographer… Read more: Camera & Lighting Tests for ‘Kitchen Sink Drink’

These are a selection of frames from the camera tests I did for a short film I will be shooting this summer titled ‘Brothers and Sisters’. I wanted to go… Read more: Camera & Grading Tests For ‘Brothers And Sisters’

Below are some frames of the camera and lighting tests for an upcoming short film I’m working on, nicknamed ‘Gothic Religious Film’. Continuing to experiment with faking anamorphic lenses like… Read more: Camera & Lighting Tests For Upcoming Project

I spent my summer developing a look I will soon use in a narrative piece I nicknamed “50s French Film”. The key characteristics of the look are a monochromatic presentation and… Read more: Creating A Classical Hollywood Look

Some recent exterior lighting tests I did.

There were similar lighting setups for a few scenes set in the living room, particularly the two scenes, that were shot consecutively, which I have broken down below. In the… Read more: As We Were – Living Room Scenes

All scenes in the children’s den in ‘As We Were’ were filmed in a studio to create an artificial and dream-like atmosphere, making the children’s safe space feel disconnected from… Read more: As We Were – Studio Setups

After a slow first day of production on my final student film I worked on, ‘As We Were’, my group asked if I knew any lighting tips, which I told… Read more: As We Were – Creating Daylight

Production has wrapped on my final student short film ‘As We Were’. Here are three short production teasers I made.

I had read about the work that Yedlin had done on Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) and Hoytema had done on Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022), and how they had shot… Read more: Day-for-Night Experimentation

I recently watched The Devil All The Time (Antonio Campos, 2020) and loved the brutal and vintage look that cinematographer Lol Crawley achieved. I wanted to experiment with this style,… Read more: Hard Grain Experimentation

I really admire the documentary-style filmmaking of Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020) and First Man (Damien Chazelle, 2018), and wanted to experiment with using my camera hand-held. However, one thing I… Read more: Documentary Style Filmmaking

I really love the dynamic range of the camera and wanted to see how I could use harshly contrasted lighting to create shapes, reminiscent of noir films. I thought interior… Read more: Using Light to Create Shape

In my continued efforts of testing my new camera and lenses, I filmed the crop sprinkler out the back of my house. I used both the 24mm and 50mm Canon… Read more: The Crop Irrigation Sprinkler

A recent addition to my camera set-up is the 28mm and 50mm Canon FD lenses, produced in the 1950/60s. I was drawn to them because of their low-contrast processing of… Read more: Initial Camera Tests