User:Barry Gravelle

For more than thirty years I have been looking at life, real or faked, through a lens. In Ottawa I worked for The Canadian Press as a freelance photojournalist and later, on staff with The Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

In 1989 I started shooting film and during the last seventeen years I have shot over twenty eight feature films MOWs and TV series, working in Canada the US and Europe. I have also shot hundreds of TV commercials and dozens of music videos.

Composition and framing set me apart from the other photographers in elbow to elbow media scrums as a young photojournalist and composition and framing sets me apart still today in cinematography. Hand held is my forte, wheels otherwise.

My challenge when lighting is to make the film look like the director wants the audience to feel. I try to make the look believable and I do it simply and quickly.