Music videos are a place to take chances that aren’t possible on commercial shoots. While budgets are usually small, experimentation is encouraged. Here’s the best of what I’ve learned from almost a decade as a music video cinematographer and director.

Lighting is often working against you without the right tools for harnessing and controlling its temperature and direction. Here are a few things that are always in my kit for dealing with outdoor lighting.

Filming for documentaries has its own brand of surprises and challenges, especially when you’re being sent into a crowd of 1.1 million people to film a 600-pound swine.

Working at 35,000 feet requires a cinematographer to be highly mobile, as well as TSA-compliant. Here are the ins and outs of filming while aboard a commercial aircraft.