

On the other hand, Tim Harland is the Director of Photography for HGTV’s “Home Town.” He is based on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans but lives several months out of the year on location in Laurel, MS.

Now, his clients include names like Johnson & Johnson and Acura. Hellmuth made his transition from the woods to the big city a few years ago. He got his start working on travel films with the National Park Service and jokes that you can pick up most of his work in gift shops. William Hellmuth works actively in LA and his credits include everything from documentary films to television commercials. Is that person behind the camera a Director of Photography, Cinematographer or Camera Operator? Are they all the same thing? Does the size of the production or cost of the camera make a difference? We decided to go to the source and ask two working DP’s to define what they do.
