The language, power, and expression of the cinematic image of the lens

The Filmmaker's Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and examines the impact this crucial tool has on the storytelling of film projects.
This book offers a unique approach to learning how lenses can create aesthetically and narratively powerful images in film by closely examining the various ways in which lensing techniques can control the look of a story's visual landscape in terms of space, movement, focus, flare, distortion, and the "optical properties" of the lens.


Featuring vivid examples of commercial, independent, and world cinema, and presenting dozens of insightful case studies, The Filmmaker's Lens explores the conceptual, narrative, and technical approaches of master filmmakers, revealing how they harnessed the power of the lens to express emotion, theme, tone, mood, subtext, and abstract concepts.

"The Filmmaker's Lens" provides filmmakers of all skill levels and experience levels, and regardless of whether they shoot with cutting-edge cinema lenses, smartphones, or any other camera, with a wealth of knowledge to help them fully utilize the expressive power of the lenses available to them.