Born to Shoot - Photography, Photoshoot

About Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605

My experience

I am an award-winning photographer with many years of experience creating videos and still images for broadcast television, corporations and nonprofit organizations. I have worked mainly as a cameraperson but also as a producer, director, and editor on many projects.

My work includes everything from quick, small web projects to hour-long broadcast documentaries, and every conceivable thing in between. I am also able to direct, edit and produce, depending on the complexity of the project.

Education

Stanford University, Master of Arts, Communications, Film Broadcasting

California State University, Sonoma, BA Sociology

California State University, Sonoma, BA Art, Cinematography

Awards

Two National Daytime Emmy Awards and nominated for a 3rd Emmy.

Many of the projects I have worked on have won numerous awards & recognition from film & video festivals

Distinguished Alumni Award Sonoma State University.

Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ - (650) 766-1605

What I do

Lex Fletcher is an independent, award-winning cameraman with a wealth of experience in video and photo projects for a wide range of clients. I have shot in all 7 continents, many video projects for Apple, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. Also projects for the Culinary Institutes - Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Teva Pharmaceutical, Bare Escentuals and CSI

( Computer and Structures, Inc.).

Broadcast

I have been the cameraman for various stories including documentaries, news, travel and sports for cable & network television.

CNN's first cameraman based in San Francisco covering the Northwestern United States.

Past Press Pass credentials for the United State Presidential campaign

My camera work has been seen on: NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Hallmark, Showtime, Disney, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel.

Corporate

Accel Partners, Accenture, AOL-Time Warner, Apple Computer, Applied Material, AT&T, Autodesk, Banana Republic, Bank of America, Bare Escentuals, Bechtel, Bio-rad Laboratories, Broad Street, The California Parks Companies, Chevron USA, Cisco Systems, Citigate, Crux Biomedical, Cunningham, Computers & Structure, Cookin-Up, Credit Suisse First Boston, Culinary Institute of America, EPRI, Esurance, The Gap, General Electric, Google, Hewlett-Packard, I-motors, Intel, IVN, Marine World Africa USA, Marriott Corp., Microsoft, Monsanto, Oracle, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, PayPal, Phillips, Potomac Electric Power Company, Reader's Digest, RSA Data Security, Roche, SBC, Southern California Edison, SRI, Stanford Children's Hospital, Stanford Micro Devices, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, Sunset Magazine, Sony Playstation, Tandem Computers, Teva, Unilever, Verifone, Verizon Wireless, Vulcan , Warner Bros. Pictures, Warren Miller, Wells Fargo Bank.

Government and Military

US Air Force,
USDA Forest Service.

Royal Commission of Saudi Arabia,

( Past -Top Secret security clearance)

Non-profit

Battery Dance, Breast Cancer Research Fund, California Academy of Sciences,

Children's Cancer Research Institute, Diablo Ballet, Easter Seals,

Grizzly Creek Ranch (Sierra Health Foundation),

San Francisco Ballet Company, Sears- Roebuck Foundation,

United Nations, YMCA.

Name Dropping - some of the people I've photographed/videotaped

I've videotaped well over a thousand interviews, some of the people I've photographed or videotaped include: Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Dr. Erich Schmidt, Larry Ellison, Meg Whitman, Bill Walsh, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, Quincy Jones, Ted Kennedy, Cesar Chavez,

Katherine Graham, Arnold Schwarznegger, Robin Williams, Dianne Feinstein, Sally Fields, Michael Smuin,

Bryan Cranston. George Lucas, Frank Gehry, Carrie Fisher, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks.

Less famous - but also very amazing, are some remarkable people I've met doing documentaries
for the Breast Cancer fund, YMCA, Battery Dance and Easter Seals.