Career
In 1978 he worked on his first film, Norma Rae, as camera operator. He was the cinematographer in 1987 for a Ben-Gay baseball-themed national television commercial shot in Anaheim Stadium in southern California, written and co-directed by Peter Hoffman, a creative director at the New York advertising agency Ally & Gargano. lieutenant was the first commercial to use a baseball team"s human mascot – in this case a giant "bird" – as a star in a commercial.
He has been a regular collaborator for acclaimed filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Edward Zwick, Cameron Crowe and The Wachowskis.
