Academy Award-nominated Luke Geissbühler has excelled as a cinematographer in nearly all genres of filmmaking with over 30 feature films, 25 documentaries, and countless television shows and commercials to his name. Some of his achievements include having shot Borat, the documentaries Buck and Helvetica, as well as Sir Patrick Stewarts's tour de force performance in Match. He has been a trusted han...

Academy Award-nominated Luke Geissbühler has excelled as a cinematographer in nearly all genres of filmmaking with over 30 feature films, 25 documentaries, and countless television shows and commercials to his name. Some of his achievements include having shot Borat, the documentaries Buck and Helvetica, as well as Sir Patrick Stewarts's tour de force performance in Match. He has been a trusted hand to Victoria's Secret, capturing the human form at its highest level for over a decade. In 2010, Luke became unexpectedly world renowned when he and his eight year old son launched a camera into astonishing near space in a homemade capsule, as seen in the short film Space Balloon. A native New Yorker and self-taught engineer, he received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School before starting his career at the cutting edge R/GA studio doing VFX and tabletop photography. Since then, he has traveled the globe orchestrating elaborate shoots for HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Will Ferrell, David Wain, The Muppets, OKGo, Adam McKay, Doug Liman, Barry Levinson, and Katherine Bigelow, among many others. His latest contributions to the screen are Sacha Baron Cohen's Who is America, and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9. As a teacher, Luke enjoys consolidating all of the valuable information and life altering lessons that he’s accumulated over the years to help people navigate their best-suited path in the business of filmmaking. http://www.lukegeissbuhler.com/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312077/

What you'll learn

Advance your lighting capabilities and refine your aesthetic with intimate hands-on lighting workshop with one of the industry's leading DPs, Academy-Nominated Luke Geissbhuhler.

This 8 person, 1 day workshop will dive deep into the lighting technique that will increase production value, refine your aesthetic and make your videos look beautiful. You'll walk out with advanced approaches to 5 key lighting set ups: dramatic effect, comedy, silhouettes, night exteriors and interview.

Design-oriented Cinematographer Luke Geissbühler will teach you his method and best practices using case studies from the more than 50 features and docs that he's filmed. Students will cover dramatic lighting techniques Luke used to film Patrick Stewart, Dakota Johnson, Sacha Baron Cohen, and many others. Luke will also draw lessons from his commercial work with Victoria’s Secret ads, and documentary work like Buck, Helvetica, and Netflix’s Abstract: the Art of Design. The workshop also covers large lighting setups like those used on OKGO’s I Won’t Let You Down video.

You’ll come out of the class with:

-In depth knowledge of lighting units used on-set and how they work

-All about light quality, color, and characteristics

-On-set lighting through real life setups

-Creative expression through lighting

You’ll get hands-on experience learning 5 key lighting approaches including:

-dramatic effect

-comedy

-silhouettes

-night exteriors

-interviews