Artistry in Balance The cinematographer prepares a crane shot for Ride With the Devil in Kansas City, Miss. 52 "Fred's aesthetic sense is highly sophisticated, but he also has a very technical mind, and those two things are in perfect balance," Jarmusch notes. "One of my Native American friends calls it 'going down the river with your feet in different canoes.'" Elmes has worked long enough and widely enough that there are regular crewmembers he can call on just about anywhere in the United States or Canada. He cites New York gaffers Jonathan Lumley and John Raugalis and L.A. gaffer Mike Katz as particularly invaluable. "They always know the right way to approach me with a solution," he notes. "The fewer words I have to use, the better." With recommendations from Haskell Wexler, Caleb Deschanel and Steven Poster, Elmes was invited into the ASC in 1993. He has since beenhttp://creativehandbook.com