Day For Night shooting
Day For Night shooting from Jeff Gatesman on Vimeo. Day for night is a classic way of shooting a night scene without expensive and huge lighting setups. Instead you shoot during the day and use various techniques to create night in post. I made this image as a test for a short film I am [...]
Baby Shower – The Doritos Spot
Baby Shower from Jeff Gatesman on Vimeo. This is the 30-second spot I made for Doritos’ Crash The Super Bowl competition. It did not make it into the top 5. Now, I’m not going to say that whoever makes the choices over at Doritos has no sense of humor, or that they lack taste or [...]
Director of Photography reel
I have recently updated my DP reel and made it available here. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ⎯ Ansel Adams I have been working behind the lens for almost 20 years, as Director of Photography, Photographer, and as a Studio Chief Lighting Technician. I believe that the language [...]
5d Mark II – a sound camera
I got my new 5D Mark II a few days ago and I haven’t been as thrilled by new machinery as I have been about this in quite awhile. Without getting into all the really cool things that make this camera great (see any one of a million articles already published on the internet or [...]
See What I’m Saying wins best Feature Doc
See What I’m Saying, on which I was Director of Photography, won the best feature documentary prize at the Philadelphia Film Festival last week. The film was directed and produced by Hilari Scarl and is a look into the lives of 4 entertainers who all happen to be deaf.
