HDR as a Dramatic Imaging Tool, Examined from a Cinematographer's Point of View

Guest Speaker: Harry Mathias

Harry Mathias is an experienced Director of Photography of feature films. He has been a film and digital cinema cinematographer on a great many studio pictures. His feature films have included drama, comedy, action, and special-effects movies. He is also a pioneer of digital cinema, holding four film and digital cinema patents, with two more pending, He is a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and was a founding member of the American HDTV Production and Digital Cinema Standards Committees. Harry Mathias was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Solly’s Diner. Mathias has been a designer and consulting engineer for both film and digital cinema cameras and was the Senior Consultant to four Panavision CEO’s. He was the Director of Motion Picture Technology (world-wide), and Head of West Coast Operations for Schneider Optics Inc. He founded and ran Barco Digital Cinema in North America as the Managing Director. He was the co-founder, and as Co-Director, ran NEC’s startup Digital Cinema division. He teaches and gives invited lectures worldwide. His past teaching includes: Santa Fe University (Professor and Cinema Department Chair), UCLA, American University, USC, American Film Institute, and the Swedish Film Institute. He is now a Tenured Professor at San Jose State University in California. He just released his fourth book: The Death & Rebirth of Cinema: MASTERING THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL CINEMA AGE, published by Waterfront Press.