While working on this blog, I started off by searching some of my favorite movies and checking out the cinematographer in those. One DP that kept popping up was John Mathieson.

Mathieson was DP of Gladiator, along with Matchstick Men and a few other great movies.

To me, Gladiator is one of the most beautifully shot films to date. Regardless of whether you like the movie or not, it’s hard to disagree that each scene can be considered epic. Looking through a few screen captures of the movie, it became harder and harder to pick just one that was more monumental than the other. I ended up tossing a coin, but alas, any screen shot would have been worthy of my first true blog post.

Another cinematographer that I thoroughly enjoy is Éric Gautier. He was the DP behind the greatest movie of all time (a fact), Into the Wild. This is the definition of a masterfully shot film. To me, each shot is presented as realistically as possible. That’s to say that it emits this sense of watching a documentary, which is certainly one of the main intentions in making this movie, considering it’s based on a true story.

Scouring the internet for another picture that made me stop and examine it for at least a few minutes was this one. The simplicity of it is pleasing to me, as I don’t prefer to have a lot going on in pictures. This one also focuses on the extremeness of the color of the guitar. The blue just pops out at you and begs you to stare at it, which I have no problem with.