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Adam Kimmel DP | Call 929-323-4441 Red State Blue State Adam Kimmel director of photography "It’s not the typical way to shoot a live stand-up show. Usually you want the versatility of zooms but my feeling was that the content and style of what Colin was doing and what the show is about lends itself to staging it with him much closer to and surrounded by the audience and with a more fixed and observational camera style. Because of that and the benefit of the shallower focus, I took the chance on limiting us without the flexibility of zooms." - Adam Kimmel, ASC adamkimmelasc.wordpress.com/ https://flic.kr/p/2im3qJy

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