cinematographer

especially British, cin·e·ma·tog·ra·phist

[sin-uh-muh-tog-ruh-fer]

noun

1. a person whose profession is video photography, especially for feature-length movies.

2. director of photography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinematographer¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; cinematograph + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“It was genuinely one of the most fun things to shoot when you’ve got the motivation to move freely. Everything in the rest of the film is considered and composed,” says the cinematographer.

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Money was one reason Brooks and her sister became child actors and why her announcement that she wanted to be a cinematographer was such a big deal.

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“Richard wanted to say something deeper. That he’s living movies, he’s living cinema and he has moving images instead of eyes,” says the cinematographer.

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His team scrounged up three, including a rental from actor Giovanni Ribisi, who has developed a reputation as a cinematographer and camera whisperer with a menagerie of restored relics.

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Softening the digital image was a diffusion filter mounted behind the lens, an effect the cinematographer suggests “breaks up the highlights and skin tones in a very beautiful way.”

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