Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
DP James Whitaker, ASC breaks down the look of HBO's DTF St. Louis: street photographs, a brutalist style police station, and inobtrusively lighting intimacy.
Podcast highlights include:
-How street photography, not cinema, was the right reference point for shooting ordinary suburbs.
-What led to the unusual set design and lighting of one of the key locations, featuring a brutalist interior that feels right out of Eastern Europe.
-Engineering a remote-controlled lighting rig for the show's many intimate scenes, so that the mood never had to be broken.
**Go to camnoir.com/ep362 for show notes and links. **
Find James Whitaker: wp-a.com/clients/james-whitaker#narrative
Instagram: @jameswhitaker_dop
DTF St. Louis is streaming on HBO Max.
Hear our previous episode with James on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: camnoir.com/ep349
Credits
Host and editor in Chief: Illya Friedman
Instagram: @illyafriedman @hotrodcameras
Host: Ben Rock
Blue Sky: @benrock.com
Instagram: @bejamin_rock
Producer: Alana Kode
All web and social media content written by Alana Kode
Composer: Kays Al-Atrakchi
Check out Kays’ new YouTube Channel, Kays Labs, where he repairs old synthesizers.
Editor: Alana Kode
The Cinematography Podcast website: camnoir.com
YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast
Facebook: @cinepod
Instagram: @thecinepod
Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social
DP James Whitaker, ASC breaks down the look of HBO's DTF St. Louis: street photographs, a brutalist style police station, and inobtrusively lighting intimacy.
Podcast highlights include:
-How street photography, not cinema, was the right reference point for shooting ordinary suburbs.
-What led to the unusual set design and lighting of one of the key locations, featuring a brutalist interior that feels right out of Eastern Europe.
-Engineering a remote-controlled lighting rig for the show's many intimate scenes, so that the mood never had to be broken.
**Go to camnoir.com/ep362 for show notes and links. **
Find James Whitaker: wp-a.com/clients/james-whitaker#narrative
Instagram: @jameswhitaker_dop
DTF St. Louis is streaming on HBO Max.
Hear our previous episode with James on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: camnoir.com/ep349
Credits
Host and editor in Chief: Illya Friedman
Instagram: @illyafriedman @hotrodcameras
Host: Ben Rock
Blue Sky: @benrock.com
Instagram: @bejamin_rock
Producer: Alana Kode
All web and social media content written by Alana Kode
Composer: Kays Al-Atrakchi
Check out Kays’ new YouTube Channel, Kays Labs, where he repairs old synthesizers.
Editor: Alana Kode
The Cinematography Podcast website: camnoir.com
YouTube: @TheCinematographyPodcast
Facebook: @cinepod
Instagram: @thecinepod
Blue Sky: @thecinepod.bsky.social
