Stephen Greathouse Midwest Cinematographer

I'm a St. Louis, Missouri local cinematographer with a passion for feature films, short films, corporate videos, commercials, and documentaries. I love visual storytelling, I enjoy lighting, and I'm grateful to work as director of photography for a living.

Over the years I have worked on a handful of movies in the Midwest. My first industry job was as the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) for Season 2 of Fallout Nuka Break's web series. This was shot in a desert just a few hours out of Los Angeles. After studying Cinematography at Los Angeles Film Studies Center in the Fall of 2012 I returned to finish my B.A. in Digital Media Arts at John Brown University.

Working my way through school I linked up with a local production company, Verge Videos, shooting for corporations such as Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Pantene, Sam's Club, Dayspring, and more. It was here that I grew quickly in my corporate experience and put my lighting knowledge to the test.

The following summer I went to work as the Principal Gaffer for a feature film in Chicago, Illinois. Working with a young Director of Photography, allowed me to design all the lighting set-ups for each scene. I would offer the DP my top three ideas for each scene and let him make the decision to choose which he liked most.

Although my passion is in light and shadow, I also love great composition and beautiful set design. I have worked as Production Camera Assistant on a feature film and as 1st Assistant Camera on corporate videos, short films, music videos. Recently I had the privilege to work as 2nd Assistant Camera on a feature shooting throughout Oklahoma.

I love all aspects of filmmaking and thrive most in a collaborative environment on set.

Spending the next 5 days in Napa CA with @theshopfilms We converted a Transit van into a small grip truck but in the process we lost @mikegburch eye glasses...however after flipping the car inside out we found a random pair of ladies reading glasses

Wrapped day 1 on Thursday, Pre-light on Friday, and ready to shoot today and tomorrow.

Made some progress today on the garden. I walked to the Uhaul place near my house, rented a truck, picked up the supplies at homedepot, dropped off recycling at Brightside Recycling center, picked up grocery's, and returned the vehicle under 10miles

Today while working in my basement I received a panicked call from my neighbor saying "your house is on fire!"

Fortunately my house was not on fire but instead my backyard fire pit re-lite after hours and spread rapidly amongst the dry woo

PART 3 of 3: We hiked Little Big Hump and Big Hump on our way way back to the drop zone. On this day we were looking at about 7 miles to finish the 15+mile trail.

After landing back at the RV campground we got cleaned up in the natural spring befor

PART 1 of 3: On May 18th I left my house for a backpacking trip to the Appalachian mountains. My sink was clogged, my cars engine had failed, and city rats had taken over our compost bin.

I hated to leave the house in that condition but the road tr

We're almost to show day! I can't wait for for all my film industry friends and family to join the premiere of CouchCRUZERS tomorrow! The party starts at 6:30p and showing starts at 8p!

I hope to see you there...details below!
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If your in St Louis and work in the commercial/narrative film Industry I'd love to invite you to the private premiere of my TV Pilot, CouchCRUZERS. The event starts at 6:30p with drinks, popcorn, and fun with my new RED V-Raptor! We'll be at the Gasl

Which photo do you like more.. photo 1 of our cat Louis looking at the camera or photo 2 when he's looking off into the distance?

Also, this is not how @racheldyann16 and I thought our @roarandrabbit furniture from @westelm would be used but we're

It's been a long time coming but finally picked up my very own @easyrig vario 5 gimbal vest with 9" extension!! No longer will I have to wear the sweat of the previous operator from a rental house.

This is my go to camera support system and I

Here are a few frames from the ole canon ae1. More to come. Thank you to production company @vergevideos , the director @karsonholbrook , @baddogpictures for the camera and @greatbignerd for the SK Lenses.

Here is a shot of my puppy 🐶 Eleven on my new RED 8k VV camera with a 12mm lens from Laowa at a frame rate of 120fps.

I had to keep scooting backwards so her nose wouldn't touch the lens.
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A really cool friend of mine who I went to high school with recently told
me that "bad/unfortunate events happen in 3's" ... @racheldyann16 and I managed to knock out those three after a small flooding in our basement, doughnuts on her 1 a

Here's an official announcement of my new camera package available to rent! I'm a proud new owner of everything you see here and more!

A list of all that's included is coming soon to my website and @horizon.cine.glass Feel free to reach out to lea

New reel for 2021…there’s a handful of spots that have yet to come out but im excited to share with you what I have in this shortened edit!! I’m proud of the work, collaborations, and crew I was able to work with in 2021 and I&rsqu

Pre-light day at @baddogpictures with the @theshopfilms and the rest of the crew. We have to different setups with 10 different backgrounds to match...luckily Bad Dogs studio is fitted with all new @arri Sky panels for the cyc (our in our case the gr

I proposed to my wife in the only way I knew how...under ARRI Lights with a Live audience and a camera crew. I know some of you puked after reading that last sentence however you should hear me out... April 16th is my wife's favorite day. You might think that it's her birthday, or the day she won something, or some historical fact...however it is her favorite day because of math. I'd love to explain why she loves this day but for time I'll just tell you that If I was ever going to propose, it would have to be on 04/16.

So I did, I love her, she loves me, and we live happily in the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri.

Freelance Cinematographer St. Louis, Missouri