Brent Mata

Greetings, Curious if anyone has information, or experience, working with a financier for new equipment ( Camera, etc ). If so, would you mind sharing recommendations or thoughts? Thanks! Brent

Thank you all for sharing your opinions. Appreciate it. I've been fortunate enough to work mainly with good natured people in my time, the small few that exhibit that kind of insecurity are rare. I believe posting our work is a professional commonality, and you are respectful enough when you site the production, client, and the Director while specifying your position. As long as you're not breaching an NDA, have a call sheet, then all is well. The bottom line is this director comes from a completely different career identity. The scenario has at least provided me with a new approach to first time directors. I've been respectful enough.

Appreciate the response Phil. Those same thoughts are what have been hovering around in my mind. I've been happily using it away from my site, but it would be beneficial to have it available at all times. Thanks for sharing.

Greetings, I'm curious if anyone has had a similar experience if not identical. A couple of years ago I shot a fragrance commercial with a first time director who came from the still life world. I lit, operated, and made lens choices, as well as advised him during the two day shoot on best practices in continuous table top lighting vs his work with strobe. It took almost a year for it to be released, and when it was, I added it to my reel. The production company whom I worked for immediately told me to take it down, as the Director began complaining that someone was pretending to be the photographer of his shoot. This was all confusing to me until I found out that he did not want anyone else's name on the work since, as a photographer, it is important for him to protect images associated with his name. Now it has been a year, and I obliged out of kindness to keep the work off of my site, but my work is precious to me and I would like to display it. Never the less, I believe in the mantra that we are hired to create images that will, inevitably, belong to our clients. I haven't worked with the gentleman since, and he doesn't do too much motion in the first place. Should I be able to display this work or not? I have a call sheet, I have witnesses, but against me I have a production company that asked me to take it down and rightfully sides with their client. This is just to see if anyone else has dealt with a scenario like this. Thanks.