Smoque® and Glimmerglass® Filters Video

There are 3 sections of this video - Smoque, Glimmerglass, Smoque.  Keep watching until you see the credits.

Donald Berube has provided Tiffen with the "film-look" filtration demonstrations shown here.

 DONALD BERUBE (Director of Photography) has two decades worth of film, sound and video production experience in the Boston market and across the globe. Don first established his love for Photography as a youth, experimenting with developing still images with a home darkroom setup. Shortly after High School, Donald studied Photography at a local UNH campus and fondly remembers when his teacher would occasionally invite legendary Photographer Lotte Jacobi to class as "substitute teacher" for the day. During this time, Donald took a job at a local movie theatre working as a movie projectionist at night, while shooting and editing video during the day for WMUR-TV Channel 9, a local ABC affiliate television station in his hometown. A few years after, he moved to the Boston area and studied Television Production at Emerson College and Music Production and Audio Engineering at Berklee College of Music. During this time, Donald worked alongside recording engineer/ producer Brett Cookingham in the design and construction of a complete sound recording studio in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, working with such artists as Jimi Randolph and Eban Kelly from Mission Control Recording Studios.

Donald's film credits include Sound Design on Rod Welles' "Peepshow", which was one of the first film soundtracks in New England to be digitally edited and mixed via ProTools on an Apple Macintosh and which won a Student Academy Award in 1994; music videos for The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones; "IronMan", an indie 35mm film starring Bernard Fox from "Titanic"; and numerous corporate and independent film projects in the Boston market. In 1996, Donald moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and worked for Resort Sports Network, acting as Field Cameraman (often on a pair of skiis), Editor and Technical Director for The Mountain Report, The Valley Show and Apres Ski Adventures.

Moving forward with his career, Donald traveled around the globe several times as a location Sound Recordist/ Assistant Cameraman for The Visionaries, an Emmy award-winning Public Television documentary series airing nationwide. Donald has also been a facet of MIT Video Productions at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology since 1993, working in a multitude of video production styles, in the field and in the studio, with BetaCam SP and DVCam formats. Some of Don's duties at MIT included Field Cameraman and Technical Director for such venues as the PBS Business Channel, the BBC Network and MIT's Media Lab, among others. Donald also helped to design a portable videoconferencing unit for MIT's Distance Learning department as well as assisted with the facilitation of full-duplex videoconferencing and streaming video equipment. He has also filmed content for Media 100, Inc. and iCanStream.com, demonstrating their software. Donald now divides his time as a Director Of Photography/ Producer collaborating with his brother Daniel on multiple digital video projects for noisybrain. Productions, traveling around the country for various companies such as Canon USA to demonstrate Canon's XL1S miniDV camera and Focus Enhancements to demonstrate their FireStore DTE Technology. Donald has also consulted in the past for various DV-related companies such as Tiffen, for whom Don has provided "film-look" filtration demonstrations at various venues such as the 2002 LA DV Show and also at the Tiffen Tech Center in Burbank, California.