Jay Holben

For over a decade Jay Holben has worked as a director of photography in Los Angeles on features, commercials, television shows, and music videos. He is a former technical editor and frequent contributing writer for American Cinematographer , for seven years he served as technical editor and columnist for Digital Video and currently writes a lighting column for TV Technology . The author of A Shot in the Dark: A Creative DIY Guide to Digital Video Lighting on (Almost) No Budget , Holben is also...See more

For over a decade Jay Holben has worked as a director of photography in Los Angeles on features, commercials, television shows, and music videos. He is a former technical editor and frequent contributing writer for American Cinematographer , for seven years he served as technical editor and columnist for Digital Video and currently writes a lighting column for TV Technology . The author of A Shot in the Dark: A Creative DIY Guide to Digital Video Lighting on (Almost) No Budget , Holben is also on faculty for the Global Cinematography Institute. He is now an independent producer and director. See less