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Behind the Shot

Postmortems of complex shoots, and thoughts to myself (or others) on how to continually improve them.
Predicting the Unpredictable |  Post Shoot Learnings

Predicting the Unpredictable | Post Shoot Learnings

There are two groups that you never want to work with: kids and animals. So let's talk about my experience on a dog food commercial as a motion control operator and cam operator.
Nick Staniszewski 17 Feb 2026
Occam's Razor & other filmmaking rules I live by in 2026

Occam's Razor & other filmmaking rules I live by in 2026

I think in filmmaking, just like in life, you have to create the tenets that you run by. Here are my five laws that structure how I run the set as a cinematographer.
Nick Staniszewski 18 Jan 2026
Drone Work - Capturing Porsche across the mountains of Switzerland

Drone Work - Capturing Porsche across the mountains of Switzerland

One of my more favorite projects from 2024 involved capturing a 992.1 Porsche Carrera 4 GTS throughout the mountains of Switzerland
Nick Staniszewski 08 Oct 2025
Vehicle Work - Polished Cybertruck Mini-Doc

Vehicle Work - Polished Cybertruck Mini-Doc

Running as the cinematographer for both the interview & car rig work, we captured a series of interviews, B-Roll, and vehicle work of Tyson, a cybertruck owner who polished his cybertruck.
Nick Staniszewski 16 Apr 2025

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