About
Shooting some Albatross BCUs for the BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet
Following a degree in Documentary Film, and a few years working in Commercials & Music Promos (to cut my teeth on cinema equipment, and pay the rent) I now have around 8 years experience doing my dream job as a principle camera person in Blue Chip Natural History. I have an array of unique skills & experiences from this unusual learning arc that allow me to leverage both my technical & natural history knowledge to their maximum, and deliver beautiful visual storytelling.
The bulk of my work on location centres around creating natural dynamics in both camera framing & movements, and finding the correct balance of long lens, gimbals, drones and more to convey the tone of the behaviour and story required.
Shotover rigged for filming Blue Whales & Albatross in the infamous Drake Passage
Long Lens shifts in Greenland for Frozen Planet II
Whilst I would say Long Lens is my ‘bread and butter’, I have a very strong general technical knowledge and a lot of experience working with GSS/Shotover, handheld gimbals, and drones in the most extreme of environments, from -50*c to +40*c.
I’m no stranger to taking doors off a pickup truck to build an in situ slider and long lens cage, to fixing a clogged carburettor on a generator on location, and have spent well over a year of my life at this point living in tents camping on ice sheets, tundra and mountain sides.
Big gimbal rig filming Amur Tigers & Amur Leopards in Eastern Russia
Please check out my CV for a list of recent credits and qualifications. My latest public showreel is embedded below, but please feel free to contact me for one with more unreleased projects in that I’m not able to share with the wider world yet!
I currently split my downtime from shoots between Somerset in the UK, and Åre in northern Sweden. I’ll always try and make myself available for an in person meeting should you want to say hi, but I’m definitely up for a video call too should it be the way it falls! Don’t be a stranger, and I hope to talk to you about your project soon,
Olly
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Me, but cold.