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Photographer | Video Production Specialist | Educator
I've spent more than 40 years working in television production, photography, and digital media. My career has taken me from Hollywood sound stages to broadcast television studios, working as a producer, director, editor, and television station manager.
Along the way, I've witnessed and participated in some of the most significant technological changes in the industry, from analog videotape and linear editing to today's digital production systems.
My experience includes working with CBS and NBC affiliates, managing television operations, and producing everything from commercial productions to documentaries and independent projects. As a certified Avid editor, I've always enjoyed the combination of technical knowledge and creative storytelling.
Today, I live on Florida's Space Coast, where I continue exploring photography, digital video, 3D modeling, printing, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
Beyond production, my interests include creative writing, engineering, investing, and examining how technology changes the way we work, communicate, and create.
I also believe strongly in the importance of accurate terminology, particularly when discussing film, video, and digital production. Understanding the tools and technologies behind a creative work is essential to understanding the craft itself.
After four decades, my curiosity hasn't diminished. I still enjoy learning, experimenting, questioning conventional thinking, and occasionally proving that there's a better way to do something.
My philosophy is simple:
“The craft is the art. The medium defines the tools we used to get to where we are.”
Film is no longer technologically required to make a movie. Everything film is required to accomplish in the production of a motion picture can now be accomplished digitally. Digital systems can capture moving images, reproduce color and tonal relationships, edit, manipulate, composite, duplicate, archive, distribute, project, and exhibit the finished work. Even visual characteristics historically associated with film, such as grain, halation, color response, contrast, and other aspects of a particular film appearance, can be digitally modeled or emulated when a creator wants them.
What digital does not reproduce is the chemistry itself, because chemistry is the mechanism by which photographic film creates its image. Digital reaches the image through an entirely different physical process: electronic sensing, signal processing, numerical representation, computation, and digital storage.
That distinction is the whole point.
Digital does not need silver halides, emulsion, chemical development, perforated stock, mechanical film transport, or a laboratory to accomplish the job film once performed. The photochemical process remains unique to film, but the process itself is no longer required to make the movie.
So if someone chooses photographic film today, they are choosing a particular process, not gaining access to some essential moviemaking capability unavailable digitally. Any claim that the choice provides additional artistic, aesthetic, prestige, or commercial value is a separate claim that must be demonstrated rather than assumed simply because the medium is film.
Digital didn't need to become film. It made film unnecessary to make the movie.
Film is film. Digital video is digital video. They reach the finished image through different technologies.
The movie is the work. The medium tells the story of how we got there.
Educate, don't mimic. ✌️❤️
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