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I'm sorry it's my bad I should've said mainstream Turkish cinema. Of course there are good ones like the ones you said. But every single person I've ever worked with is like I described in the post. Oh btw you haven't heard my name because I'm 19 and I'm new at filmmaking :)

Hello to all, I am a 19 year old cinematographer in Turkey and I'm having some problems with this. In Turkish film industry people don't really care about cinematography. Like, I'm lighting a scene and the director tells me to just bounce one light off the ceiling and start recording. Which just makes a very unnatural and a very ugly looking scene in my opinion. But all the directors want is to just be able to see the actors. That's cinematography in Turkey, being able to see the actors... My problem is that I don't want my name on a project with poor cinematography and I get in fights with the directors. How do I get the directors to just trust me and let me do my job? Or should I just do what they want? I don't want to work in Turkey for the rest of my life. Would this affect my career in UK or USA? Like, would I be able to explain to them that I'm not responsible for the bad cinematography in my resume? Sorry for my poor English.