American Cinematographer - December 2019 - 58

No Escape
u The
cinematographer
embraced a mix
of color
temperatures for
his night-exterior
lighting. "This
might be my last
go-round with the
mixed blue-green
and oranges of the
urban landscape,"
he says. "The
world is changing
to LED."
q Cameron and
director Brian Kirk
consider their next
setup.

through that process of putting the
pieces together. It's fun! I like doing
that practically and trying not to rely
on visual effects. I try to push the
director to be fearless about connecting locations."
Nearly the entire movie takes
place at night, and predominantly on
exterior locations. Within those environments, Cameron explains, "I was

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going for an older, moodier look.
Think back to Michael Chapman
[ASC] and Taxi Driver, and Robby
Müller [NSC, BVK] and The American
Friend. Robby was a master at it - a
natural look with a mix of color
temps."
About 15 years ago, Cameron
worked with gaffer Philip Walker to
design a fixture they called the T-Par,

ASC 100th Anniversary

which comprised a 12K housing
lamped for a 1,200-watt sodiumvapor or metal-halide fixture - effectively
delivering
an
output
equivalent to a 4K sodium off of a
small putt-putt generator. "I've never
really been happy with gels to create
the feel of sodium-vapor or metalhalide lamps -  there is nothing like
the real thing," Cameron says.
Thanks to the economy of the T-Pars,
he adds, "I can get more condors and
fewer generators, and I'm lighting
with the real color temperature, both
sodium vapor and metal halide.
"This film might be my last goround with the mixed blue-green and
oranges of the urban landscape," the
cinematographer notes. "The world is
changing to LED, which is predominantly 'white' - that urban nighttime look is changing all over the
world. Shooting a contemporary
movie in the city at night isn't going
to have the blue-green of mercury
vapors or the orange of sodium; it
will all be the cool-white of LEDs.
That's the modern look, like it or not.
Luckily, however, there are sections of
Philly that haven't yet transitioned to



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