Closing the Color Loop
Dave Stump, ASC
Director of Photography, Los Angeles, USA Dave Stump
began his career as a TV producer, moving on to work in Francis Ford
Coppola's camera department at Zoetrope studios at the end of the
1970's. By the 1980's, Dave was working as a Director of Photography
and Visual Effects Supervisor. One of his early projects in that era,
the television miniseries The Day After, won a VFX Emmy Award. In
the 1990's Dave built up a successful camera rental house, which
became a technology model for VFX cinematography.
"What do I love about my work? I love lighting; I love making
motion pictures; I love the collaboration. I also love the new
workflows: my tool box just keeps getting bigger and bigger and
the new workflows allow me to tell stories in new and better
ways. I love that people actually pay me to play with the
latest, greatest, and most high-tech toys on the planet! My
sandbox is the funnest sandbox in the world - and I get to make
art with it."
Over the past decades, Dave has continued to work as a
cinematographer, a VFX Director of Photography and as a VFX
Supervisor, earning another Emmy nomination, and an Academy
Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. Recent credits
include Flight Plan, Fantastic Four, X-Men 2,
Garfield, Panic Room, The Bourne Identity,
and many others.
A lover of new technologies, Dave Stump has used SpeedGrade
OnSet since the first beta. "I mostly use the primary and
secondary grading tools. I use SpeedGrade Onset with the
Cine-tal monitor and the LUTher box."
"It's great: all I have to do is generate the .Look
and it's "plug and play" from then on! Having the
capability to do grading right here and now is incredibly
valuable for my work. And the fact that it works on the Mac
platform is worth its weight in gold. In a nutshell, SpeedGrade
OnSet closes the color loop for me."
Dave Stump is chairman of the ASC Camera Committee. Most
recently he used SpeedGrade OnSet on What Love Is and
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