- Larry Gebhardt is an Emmy Award winning Cinematographer specializing in several widely diverse genres ... from high-energy action, to epic-style scenic cinematography, to beautifully lit live action subjects and sets. Throughout his career, much of his personal cinematic style has been enhanced by his ability to design and build specialized equipment to enable photography that is often either unique, or very rare.
Early in his career, Larry was the first to send a live skier's POV camera down an Olympic Race Course. In the time leading up to the Winter Olympics in 1988, he designed and built a lightweight "SteadiCam" type device for the forerunner of the Men's Downhill Ski Race to carry in a live preview of the race coverage. Utilizing ABC's relatively new microwave technology and talent, he sent the racer's on-the-edge POV experience barreling down the race course, to millions of viewers around the world ... his largest, ever, one-time audience
Beginning with high-energy cinematography, Larry went on to develop his personal photographic style encompassing many other subjects and productions of all sizes. From Two Guys and a (4 wheel drive) Truck, out in the boondocks, to Hollywood stage shoots involving 130 ft. wide, 40 ft. tall green screens and thousands of amps of lighting...Larry has lately broadened his scope in the cinematic specialty of beautiful natural history and scenic cinematography. An exact opposite to the explosive power of an Olympic Bobsled, Larry has embraced his relatively quiet new genre with shots of a kind rarely seen... the quiet journey of the stars through the skies in exquisite moving time lapse and a range of other expansive landscapes and seascapes.
Sherry Rousso, Representative for Directors of Photography:
"There is an extraordinary beauty of energy and motion displayed in Larry Gebhardt's reel. Often shot against a backdrop of nature, his camera captures a breathtaking show of strength, exhilaration and the fluidity of motion of both man and machine. Whether shooting for a sports extravaganza such as the Olympics, or the skill of a solitary man diving downward past the cliffs of a mountain in ultra slow motion, this Emmy Award winning cinematographer combines athletic power, grace and artistry with perfection".
Larry received his first Emmy Award for the Calgary Winter Olympics work and later went on to win three national Emmys for Best Cinematography in sports and action subjects in locations throughout the world.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Shannon Holden
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