Cinematographer's portfolio that earns its film grain honestly.

A young DP with a strong reel and a portfolio site that hosted his work as embedded YouTube videos with the suggested-videos sidebar showing other people's reels at the end. Bad. Embarrassing. Career-shortening.
He needed a portfolio that treats his footage with the respect it deserves — and an aesthetic that matches his actual visual sensibility, which is amber, crimson, gold, and a lot of grain.
Built a custom video player on Cloudflare Stream — adaptive bitrate, no third-party logos, no recommended-videos sidebar, no ads. The reel is the only thing on screen.
Set the type: Fraunces with WONK on max for the wordmark, sized large enough to feel like a title card. JetBrains Mono for credits and timestamps, small caps, tight tracking.
Color world: deep amber, crimson, antique gold. Grain texture overlay on hero sections, dialed to about 4% — enough to feel filmic, not enough to be a costume.
"The fastest way to make a cinematographer's site feel cheap is to host the reel on YouTube."
reel · custom player
home · type pairingLive. Hosted on his own infrastructure. Client inquiries up. The site treats his work the way the work deserves to be treated.