I love shooting film and digital. I come from a film background – educated at the Florida State University film conservatory, gaffing my first feature at 20, followed by an extensive career as a gaffer on features, commercials, and music videos – and eventually shooting full time.

I first began working with digital cameras back in their infancy, about 10 years ago, when there really weren’t many reasons to go that route. Finally in these last few years digital cinema cameras have caught up. I now feel that most of the time there are more reasons to shoot digital than to shoot film.

A new aesthetic is being created, and with it comes new opportunities.

It can be a mess though – wading through a mountain of formats, workflows, differences in lighting, resolutions, lenses, DIT’s, color spaces... the list goes on.

While I always enjoy those jobs where film is the most appropriate thing for me to shoot, I now specialize in bringing digital projects to life. I have an ability to move beyond ones and zeros, hard drives and file formats, back to the basics of telling a story through light, movement, and composition. Plus the knowledge and years of experience to exploit this new medium for all of it’s advantages.

There are many DP’s who exclusively shoot film, and can muddle their way through the digital world... and there are many gifted video cameramen with great technical abilities who aspire to cinematic style. It is very rare to come across someone who blends the best of both, and it can be costly in aesthetics, money, and time to work with someone who isn’t.

The road to digital is not always clear. I can make sense of it all for any given project: choosing the right cameras, developing workflows, providing skilled technicians, and of course delivering beautiful images as well.

I’ve worked with every major digital cinema / HD format – for delivery in theaters, on television, DVD, and online. And of course, I still shoot film as well.