Dave Schwep is an American

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

, director, and producer.

Early career

Born in

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and raised in

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, Dave Schwep began his photography career at the age of 19 on the ski slopes of Big Sky Montana. He then worked a 6-month commercial fishing venture in

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, traveled across country, and landed in

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where he shot fashion and glamour photography. In 1999 Schwep moved to Hollywood and pursued a full-time career as a professional photographer. He made his way through head shot, editorial, fashion, and event photography using film until the development of

digital photography Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is sto ...

. In digital photography, Schwep discovered his own unique process of creating signature art by using thousands of stills to create video. The result is an illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures
Dreamsequences
his company.

Recent work

Through Dreamsequences, Schwep applied his unique process to advertising, television promos and in 2008 he expanded into

cinematography Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...

and film production, creating his first short, "Bordeaux" (2008), starring "Hero's"

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. Schwep also took his cameras and signature process into both

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, where he was the

director of photography The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

for the documentary, "Stepping into the Fire" (2011), and

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, where he continues to shoot for charitable organizations. Recently, Schwep won best documentary at the 2012

HollyShorts Film Festival The HollyShorts Film Festival is an annual Academy Award®-qualifying independent short film festival located in Hollywood, California. History Founded in 2005, the yearly festival programmes feature an eclectic mixture of short films of various g ...

as director, cinematographer, and executive producer of "Bo" (2012), a journey to redemption. A sampling of his television credits include the popular shows House, Glee, Modern Family, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, American Idol, X Factor, and New Girl.

References

External links

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Short Documentary Film “BO” wins Best Documentary Short at the HollyShorts Film Festival

* ttp://www.filmfestivals.com/person/dave_schwep Dave Schwep on Filmfestivals.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwep, Dave Living people American cinematographers American directors American film producers Year of birth missing (living people)