American Cinematographer - March 2009 - (Page 51) Gunsmoke in his place. John didn’t know it, but he helped me get a foot in the door.” Liu went on to work for cinematographer Edward Plante on the series Medical Center. After Gene Polito, ASC worked with Liu on Westworld (1973), he moved Liu up to first camera assistant on the series Adam’s Rib, and shortly thereafter, Richard Glouner, ASC promoted Liu to operator on the series Columbo. “I’m very grateful to both of those men,” says Liu. After operating for one season on Lou Grant, a single-camera series shot on 35mm, Liu moved up to director of photography and went on to shoot three seasons of the show. When he took over, he suggested employing fluorescent lighting, which was rare at the time. “The main newsroom set was lit with a tremendous number of Photofloods above the ceiling,” he recalls. “They used a lot of electricity and lasted a very short time, and they made for a very hot set — very uncomfortable for the actors. Everyone wondered whether fluorescents would work, but I knew from experience that color temperature could be played with very easily as long as your light sources were uniform. I ordered warm white fluorescents, which mingled well with our tungsten sources onstage. “I also gradually convinced the producer to shoot more on location and less onstage,” he continues. “When I started, we were doing about five days onstage and two days on location for each hour-long episode. I proved I could make the transition seamless, and by the end of the last season, we were working five days on location and two onstage. That was rare for a TV series at that time.” Liu became an ASC member in May 1984, after he was recommended by Society fellows > Up to 4,000 fps > 2K resolution > Super 35 format > 10 F-stop dynamic range > Global shutter > 2-stream camera > RAW-in-HD-SDI > Stand alone system > DigiMag DM-2 NAB 2009 April 20th-23rd Bavarian Pavillion weisscam@pstechnik.de www.pstechnik.de sales@zgc.com www.zgc.com 51 http://www.cdiabu.com http://www.pstechnik.de http://www.pstechnik.de
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