• Source: Don King (photographer)

      • Don King (born 1960) is an American photographer, cinematographer, and film director. He is best known for his photographic and cinematic images of ocean surface waves and surfing.
      Don King was a high school sophomore the first time he sold a photograph. The purchaser was Surfing Magazine, which used it on its cover of an issue.
      After graduation from Punahou School in 1978, King attended Stanford University where he majored in psychology, belonged to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and was on the Stanford Cardinal water polo team which won the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championships of 1978, 1980 and 1981. He graduated from Stanford in 1983.
      Born and raised in Hawaii, Don King lives on Oʻahu with his wife Julianne Yamamoto King and their sons Beau, Aukai and Dane.


      Cinematography


      This is a very incomplete list of King's camera and direction credits in film and television.

      1987: North Shore
      1988: The Tribal Trials bodyboarding video with Jack Lindholm, Ben Severson, and Mike Stewart
      1994: The Endless Summer II
      1995: The Living Sea
      1997: "Tidal Wave" episode, Discovery Channel Raging Planet series
      1998: City of Angels
      1999: Surfing for Life
      2000: Cast Away
      2001: "The Big Squish" and "Blue Holes" episodes, National Geographic Channel The Next Wave series
      2002: Heart of the Sea, award-winning documentary of the life of surfing champion Rell Sunn.
      2002: Blue Crush
      2002: Die Another Day
      2002: "Condition Black" episode, Nature series
      2003: Step into Liquid
      2004: Riding Giants
      2005: "Violent Hawaii" episode, Nature series
      2005: Lords of Dogtown
      2006: Beautiful Son
      2008: Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2nd Unit D.P.
      2009: Dear John water unit D.P.
      2010: Hereafter water camera operator
      2011: Soul Surfer 2nd unit D.P., B-camera operator
      2011: The Descendants water camera operator
      2011: Just Go With It water camera operator
      2011: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides water camera operator
      2011: Off the Map water camera operator, B-camera operator
      2012: Battleship water camera operator, C-camera operator
      Television

      2003-2010: Lost camera operator 6 seasons
      2008 Entourage
      2007: Lost episode, season 3 finale "Through the Looking Glass"
      Commercials

      American Express "Laird" - Director, Cinematographer
      Cool Water/Davidoff - Director, cinematographer
      Apple - water cinematographer
      Armani - water cinematographer
      Hyundai - water cinematographer
      Coca-Cola - water cinematographer
      Guinness - water cinematographer
      Norwegian Cruise lines - water cinematographer
      Johnson & Johnson - water cinematographer
      Maytag - water cinematographer
      Toyota -water cinematographer
      Weight Watchers -water cinematographer
      E Harmony -water cinematographer
      Kaiser -water cinematographer
      2006: SHISEIDO "TSUBAKI in Japan - water cinematographer
      2011: Nike Commercial water cinematographer
      Music Video

      Mariah Carey
      Sugarland
      One thing that earns King such raves is his mellow personality—in a type-A industry, he's renowned for keeping his cool. Another is his sheer water sense and athletic ability—tall and lanky, he was once a competitive swimmer and college water-polo player and has long been a top-notch bodysurfer. It's that watersports background, he says, that allows him to bob nonchalantly at the ground zero of huge, punishing waves, holding his shot until the last possible second before diving to avoid the surfer's slashing fins and the wave's crushing lip.… And then there's King's legendary eye for the shot. "Don has an uncanny ability to hit the button only when it's magic," says Jai Mansson, who works with King often as assistant cameraman. "He's like a Zen master."


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