Steve Downer - Specialist Wildlife & Macro Cinematographer
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​I'm a film and video Lighting Cameraman and Director of Photography with credits on over 150 international television programmes, and the winner of numerous awards for cinematography including two News & Documentary EMMY’s for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft -Cinematographers for the National Geographic film The Last Frog, and for ABC’s Living Edens - Denali, Alaska’s Last Wilderness. My National Geographic Film King Cobra ,, filmed in southern India over a period of five months, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Achievement and was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography. 

Wildlife, Nature, Environment, Science, Macro, Micro, Time-lapse

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Khazakh hunters, Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang China. National Geographic GERBIL PLAGUE
I have considerable experience of filming wild animals - from big cats, venomous snakes and Komodo Dragons, to the microscopic mites that live in the ear of a moth. I'm renowned within the UK and worldwide television industry for my skills in filming complex animal behaviour both on location and in specially designed studio habitats, and for developing and using specialist techniques including deep focus optics, macro filming and time-lapse.

I've worked in locations across the world including Europe, North, South & Central America, the Caribbean, India, China, Japan, Africa, Arabia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma, Alaska and the Canadian High Arctic.

​ Television, Cinema and Web Broadcasting

     The prestigious tv series I have contributed to include the BBC 's :​
    
     Planet Earth
     Blue Planet
     Coast
     Spring Watch
     Wildlife on One
     The Natural World
     The Trials of Life
     The Life of Plants
     Life in the Undergrowth
     Land of the Eagle
     Predators
     Nightmares of Nature
     Dragons Alive
     Nature of Britain
     The Living Isles
                                                               Living Britain

                                                           and numerous programmes for Channel Four, ITV,  National Geographic TV,
​    Animal Planet, Discovery Channel & PBS.

​Film and UHD Video

 
​I have extensive experience of shooting on 16mm & 35mm film and 6K / 4K video.
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I own a comprehensive 4K video kit, with Z-Cam E2-M4, Panasonic GH5 & GH4 and GoPro Hero 11 & Hero 8 cameras, and optics ranging from telephoto lenses for long range filming, to macro and micro lenses for filming the tiniest details of insects.
​To download my full equipment list click the link below.

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Stock 4K and HD Video of UK Wildlife & Nature ​
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A showcase of video clips can be viewed here: 
​      https://www.youtube.com/user/stevedownerfilms      
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Steve Downer Wildlife & Macro Cinematographer

Based in Birmingham, UK

Telephone:     +44 (0)7706 014301

e-mail:      [email protected]


Site last updated 10th February 2025                                    All images and videos on this website ©Steve Downer

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