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Noam Osband
December 10th, 2011, 06:36 PM
I'm looking to do some reading to get better at shooting with my HMC-150, and i want to learn more tricks for shooting and basic cinematography ideas

If anyone has a good title or two to recommend , please do so!

Gary Nattrass
December 11th, 2011, 04:44 AM
I have a book from this guy and have found it to be very useful: Director of Photography/Cinematographer/High Def Cameraman/HD Cinematographer/Film DP (http://homepage.mac.com/blainbrown/index.html)

The lighting book is very good too!

Sareesh Sudhakaran
December 11th, 2011, 08:59 PM
I have a book from this guy and have found it to be very useful: Director of Photography/Cinematographer/High Def Cameraman/HD Cinematographer/Film DP (http://homepage.mac.com/blainbrown/index.html)

The lighting book is very good too!

+1 - I have the same book. It covers everything you need to get started.

Dave Allen
December 12th, 2011, 10:11 AM
Five-Cs-Cinematography-Picture-Techniques/dp/187950541XThe Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Technique (http://www.amazon.com/)

Sanjin Svajger
December 14th, 2011, 03:24 AM
This book is great: Amazon.com: Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Second Edition (9780240807638): Blain Brown: Books