My Experience
Color grading, archival restoration, technical consulting in cinematography, digital cinema, color management, and image processing. My work has spanned over sixteen years in documentary, narrative, commercial, and some advertising and branded content. My former life as a cinematographer spanned over thirteen years having lensed documentary television series, documentary features, scripted narrative feature films, and over one-hundred short documentaries, narrative films, and web series. Now I work in my lab full time.
Clients Include: CNN, BBC, VICE, Timeline, Gagosian Gallery, National Geographic, History Channel, Discovery, Buick, Mother Jones, Topic Magazine
Consulting Work: post-production workflows to include color-managed pipelines, creative intent, technical shooting methodology for digital cinematography, archival digitization, and solving novel post-production challenges for contemporary and archival projects.
Current Research: For the last three years, I’ve been experimenting with motion picture restoration using machine learning and custom Python scripting.
Management: I have extensive management experience leading post-production teams under tight deadlines through technically challenging projects both on-site and remotely across OS platforms and software. I’m an advocate of employee training and certification and have always made a point of sharing my expertise with my team through hands-on training and documentation. For the past five years, I’ve been running my own boutique post-production finishing business in New York City called Magic Lantern which has provided me with many opportunities to collaborate with other experienced colorists as well as supervise and instruct a diverse roster of junior colorists and assistant editors.
My professional writing is focused on creative intent, applied color science, cinematography, and archival restoration. Most of my writing is for those who enjoy curiosity and its proximity to our industry.
Training and Certification
Black Magic Davinci Resolve - Certification
ISF Level I - Certification - Imaging Science Foundation
IASA Preservation Training - Workshop - IASA
Digital Color Theory - Seminar - Charles Poynton, PhD
Advanced Digital Color Theory and ACES - Seminar - Charles Poynton, PhD
Color Science for Digital Cinematography - Seminar - Charles Poynton, PhD
Advanced Color Theory and Aces - Seminar - Charles Poynton, PhD
ACES Introductory Seminar - SMPTE
ISF Level II - Seminar - Imaging Science Foundation
RED Workflow and Grading - Workshop - FxPhD
The Craft of Color Grading I & II - Seminar - FxPhD
LUTs, Gamma, and ACES - Workshop - FxPhD
Sales and Customer Discovery - Three-month workshop - Genius NY Accelerator
Marketing and Advertising - Three-month workshop - Genius NY Accelerator
Guest Lectures
School of Visual Arts - Digital Cinematography and the Color Grade
Brooklyn Documentary Club - Color Management and Creative Intent
Spark Competition - Syracuse University - Technology Innovation and Problem Solving
Sacred Heart University - Masters in Film & Television - Digital Cinematography 101
Downtown Community Television (DCTV) - Digital Cinematography