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Inventive Pictures was founded in 2005 by cinematographers Tim Tyler and Dave Cramton. After working in motion picture production together sporadically for about fifteen years, Tim and Dave decided to combine their talents and tools to create a production resource for independent film makers in the Pacific Northwest.
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Tim Tyler has been looking through the viewfinder of motion picture cameras his whole life. He has helmed the camera departments on feature films, shorts, and commercials, and has photographed a wide range of Public Television programming and corporate video.
As a youngster in Rhode Island, Tim shot Super-8 film as often as possible. At 19, he moved to New York City and found work as a Production and Location Assistant, learning as much as he could watching the cinematographers on set like Michael Seresin, Bob Richardson, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Tak Fujimoto. Tim eventually ventured west over the Hudson River and made it as far as Seattle where he put together a 16mm camera package and started shooting independent films for promising directors and shorts for Disney's "Bill Nye The Science Guy" television show.
Just before Amazon.com started selling books online in 1995, Tim learned a little HTML and launched "The Camera Department Page" as a web resource for the few motion picture camera people who had Internet access back then. Over the years that site has grown, and now as Cinematography.com, it has become a thriving online community for students and professionals worldwide. The whole "Internet thing" proved to be a bit of a distraction for Tim's career as a cinematographer however, and he found that being a cameraman was taking a back seat to the lucrative work of web development. After years of balancing both creative professions, Tim finally stopped building web sites in 2004 and refocused on his lifelong ambition to shoot movies.
Tim is proud to have recently photographed six episodes of the award-winning PBS documentary series Exposé, a program that gives a prime-time spotlight to some of the most important investigative journalism in America. He also just finished shooting a series of short documentaries profiling three accomplished Northwest artists produced for the Washington State Arts Commission, and a project profiling the stories of children with Cystic Fibrosis.
In 2006 Tim photographed Virginia Bogert's short romantic comedy The Delivery which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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David Cramton first took pictures seriously around the age of 12, and first shot movies about 6 years later at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Several years and a few colleges later, Dave graduated from the Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, BC. Canada wouldn't let him stay, so Dave moved to Seattle where he worked for Oppenheimer Camera for several years, learning all about 16mm, 35mm and video camera systems, as well as helicopter mounts, cranes and remote heads. During this time, Dave worked as a cinematographer, assistant cameraman, production assistant, and grip, and did whatever he could on films in the Seattle area.
In 1995, Dave moved to Olympia to attend The Evergreen State College (TESC) with the intent of getting a nice Poli Sci degree and forgetting about film. At the urging of his professors, Dave kept after the film thing, shooting a feature in S-16, and many, many other projects in 16, 35, DV and HD.
Currently Dave is the Video Producer at TESC, where he teaches classes and workshops on cinematography and film production.
Dave shoots, gaffs, and key-grips as part of Inventive Pictures, and sometimes elsewhere whenever his wife and 9-year old daughter allow.
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Inventive Pictures has teamed up with many talented producers and directors including
Steven R. Barron, Virgina Bogert, Shane Drake, Oriana Zill de Granados,
Major Lightner, Marc Shaffer, Tom Jennings, Phoebe Owens, and Bill Predmore.
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