Unit Set Photography: Myles Aronowitz & Cara Howe
About this episode
The episode explores the role and challenges of unit set photographers in film and television production through a discussion with Myles Aronowitz and Cara Howe.
Photography has plenty of different specialty areas—portraits, sports, fashion, food, still life—to name just a few. In today's show we're going to investigate a specialty that involves all these subjects, while calling for a photographer who is technically precise, emotionally intuitive, and practically invisible, all at once. It's a corner of the industry people rarely consider, but one that holds massive influence over our cultural lives. This is the domain of the Unit Set Photographer: the person responsible for the pictures that sell a film or a show before anyone else has seen a frame of it. During a spirited conversation with photographers Myles Aronowitz and Cara Howe, we pull back the curtain on what it really feels like to toil on set, build trust with talent, and come away with great images under conditions that are rarely in your favor. In addition to learning the origin stories to their intense, multifaceted careers, we distinguish between work on feature films and tv productions, reveal the secret superpowers of stealth and stillness essential for success on set, describe how to build alliances across an film entire crew, and talk about value of the global shutter…
People in this episode
Host: B&H Photo & Video
Guests: Myles Aronowitz, Cara Howe
Topics covered
- unit set photography
- film production
- photography techniques
- behind the scenes
- creative collaboration
Keywords
- unit set photographer
- film photography
- TV production
- photography skills
- creative process
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