I was very lucky at age 23 to standby Mr. Willis on The Godfather part 2. When i was not needed in a scene i stood next to Francis and Gordon after asking permission from Coppola. He just said sure but just dont get in our way. This was on their first location which was South Lake Tahoe at the Henry J. Keiser Estate. Perfect location for what Francis needed! The first day of principle photogopy was Oct 01, 1973. They shot at Tahoe until end of the first week of November. I learned a hell of alot. Opportunity of a lifetime for me!

I'm LOVING this cinematographer series! Keep it up please! Can't wait to see more!

he is a brilliant cinematographer!

Gordon Willis, a true master fo the art of light...! Excellent video enjoyed it.

I love his style.

So happy to subscribe! You are great! 😀

Thank you so much! This series is amazing. You've got my subscription :)

One of the great masters. Shame that he never won an oscar.

Nice Jor-El dig--my first laugh throughout your (excellent) series!

hey loving this series so far pls do more cinematography related contents in the future. subscribed!

Fantastic as always! Disclaimer ;-) - thanks again for reading my ramblings: You took the words right out of my mouth: the great cinematographers went to great lengths to get "that look". Unfortunately a lot of older movies were shown on TV (or watched on home video) for decades in 3:4 standard resolution - often from so-so release prints, from a heavily compromised "film-to-video system" (I've seen many of these still in action back in the day around 1980, at the Frankfurt TV station where I did small jobs) or even poor 16mm "dupe prints" with colors and contrast completely off; not to mention 'pan and scan' of widescreen formats - to destroy the original framing and composition. Only in recent and carefully graded re-releases on BluRay - all the beauty and painstaking work finally comes to life. Finally! Yep: the run and gun style. It can be great in the right hands and with modern gear it is almost a "must" to be included. Some older movies which are carefully composed with marks and meticulously planned blocking, look too static and "stagey" for my eyes these days. I have a hard time sitting through some great classics because of this. I am also a little reluctant to movies that avoid wide angles. It can look both a little "distant", not "daring" enough - and "done with television in mind" - if in the wrong hands that is. I happen to love wide angles (if not abused) both for master shots and dynamic close ups with deep focus (French cinematographers seem to love wide angle lenses - Nolan has his fair share of these as well). I noticed you talking about the T-stop (T for transmission). Yep, that's the light actually hitting the film or sensor. The F-stop aperture is still used because it determines the correct depth-of-field, not the light. The T-stop of a given lens might be a third stop or so (depending on lens) reduced. I just mention this for people who might not know (most tutorials just mention f-stop). Cinematography is art and craftsmanship combined. Thanks for pointing out the great cinematographers and provide in-depth information. I love it! Two of my favorite cinematographers/DopPs are: Stanley Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull. I had the pleasure of watching "2001" twice in the 1970s on a glorious 70mm print. (it was the exact same print both times, I remember exactly where the scratches were (some very obviously from bad loops). Anyway: suddenly all those long, wide angle shots (even with fish eye distortion) made sense: you look at a huge screen and have the time to marvel at all the detail and texture. This was never meant to be watched on a smaller screen. Thanks for always reading my ramblings. :-) I can talk film (movies) forever. I cannot overemphasize how much I appreciate your sharing of your great knowledge! I learn a ton in each of your videos! Please keep them coming! P.S. doing it in baby steps. I will upload my first film footage as soon as I am able to come up with something decent :-) It's just a hobby (thankfully), so I have control (within my no-budget - so I'm grateful for any DIY hacks!) and be able to enjoy shooting footage. You guessed it: I'll be using Super 16mm. All out cumbersome old school, except for the scanning and digital grading stages - and hopefully "scratch and bump-free" digital editing soon! Hopefully I can come up with something acceptable eventually, but I'm in no hurry. :-) Thanks again!

This was really good! Good cinematography is timeless

that's very interesting, thank you so much

good work ,

fantastic

This channel is amazing thanks for the great content. I would like to suggest a video about Luca Bigazzi, the cinematographer of "great beauty" and "youth" of Paolo Sorrentino

Thanks!!! Very interesting.

Awesome! great job! I love his style and I can see why he got so much flack from every producer. It truly is hard to see his subjects sometimes but thats life...you can't see everything all the damn time and I feel he was going for that

THank you. Love this.

Wow, thanks for this!

These videos are great! Very helpful. Have you done a video on Kubrick's cinematography?

love it

can you make a Jost Vacano analysis video?

Prince of Darkness...cool. Also think about John Alton when it comes to darkness and painting with light. A true Low key high contrast genius.

I'd appreciate if you could do a piece on the original 'Prince of Darkness' Bruce Surtees.

Btw. I really liked your S-log2 videos, any chance you would make a video about S-log3 or comparisson of 2 and 3. Would you still ETTR when shooting S-log3? Thanks!

Please try and do an analysis on Christopher Nolan. Love from Bangladesh! :)

I would like you analize someone like Sven Nykvist, great channel

wolfcrow thank you! very good and direct analysis. Could you make one of these to honor Georgi Rerberg? or maybe Vadim Yusov or Sven Nykvist . thanks!!

I would like to know how much of a role a cinemaphotographer would have in the role of storyboarding as I think all that is done in preproduction.

Very interesting! Please could you do an analisis on Sven Nikvist cinematography?

I love these series: have you ever thought to analyze the style of Tonino Delli Colli d.o.p. of Sergio Leone? I love his style anyway you are doing an incredible job keep it up please.

Can you please make a video on the cinematography style of John Alcott? I noticed that he's a master at imitating natural light, and lighting actors in a way that gives them the freedom to move around set. Thank you

Brilliant as always! please do Eduardo Sierra and Edward Lachman

Can you do Dante Spinnoti next I like his cinematography

Hey, can you make one about Denis Villeneuve?

At 4:00 he says that the 40mm lens would equal about a 55mm lens on a full frame DSLR. Why is there a conversion involved? I thought full frame sensors were pretty much the same ratio as film. Where can I learn more about what is causing this difference?

Very nice overview of Gordon's work. Vilmos would be a good one too or maybe the work of Tarkovsky.

love it. Please analyse Robert Richardson style.

I hear people scream "The godfather" and praise it's cinematography, I watched the whole trio, But I have yet to find something CLOSE, not even better to the cinematography of barry lyndon, I admire that the godfather is one of the best works of all time, but when it comes to cinematography, Barry lyndon is a miracle, completely out of this world.

Can you do a video about Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia)?

Do rodrigo prieto

You should make a video about John Alton, Vilmos Zsigmond and Nestor Almendros.

This is great. Please can you analyse Santosh Sivan.

Yes. How do I let you know? Will this message reach you? I would love an analysis about Christian Berger. That would be quite wonderful. Thanks

Please analyse Binod Pradhan's way of cinematography

If you had to choose the best cinematographer in a comedy environment, that would be very interesting. I'd say Willis went well with the nature of Woody Allen's 'playing it straight' but curious if you feel that 'tone' per se, could undercut comedy.

i would like to suggest a video about Bruno Delbonel, but not without praising your wonderfull work first

do a storaro case study!

Bill Pope please!

can you also do Vittorio Steraro? :3

cinematographers from India like santosh sivan, Ashok Mehta, Binod Pradhan

Subs in Spanish please!

Please highlight female cinematographer's too!