Michael Lahood Cinematography

27/05/2025

A few years back and I undertook a documentary project in the Taranaki region with a small team.

The concept was simple enough - follow four everyday athletes as they train for four different ultra endurance events. Navigating life and all the stresses, pressures and mental health struggles that get intensified with such a time demanding goal.

Unfortunately the project was cancelled four months in due to something completely sudden and out of our control.

I was having a look through the footage today, and figured why not color a few frames and share to Instagram - I guess we all have projects that never see the light of day for whatever reasons 🎬

08/05/2025

Some trippy filters and strobes for this one for 👌

Director.
DP. 👊
1st AC.
Gaffer.
Lighting assist.
Makeup Artist.
Editor.

13/02/2025

Two of my favourites frames from some small scripts we shot awhile back written and directed by

Dp. 👋
Second Op.
Gaffer.
Lighting assist.
Set.
Assist. ._

28/01/2025

That’s a wrap on my first feature film. There’s so much to say about the whole crew but I’ll keep it brief.

Thank you to for trusting me with your vision and giving me the opportunity to prove myself on a bigger stage. for locking us muppets into place - seriously you were given the hard task of scheduling a feature to 15 days and nailed it.

and my camera team and .dp . From nailing focus in literally every shot to being an ear when stress was getting to me - couldn’t appreciate you guys more.

for lighting the frames of my career with your team .gaborian

up five points for being an alright guy 🫡 and another five for dressing the s**t out of every set and being someone to come to for some critique and wisdom.

Shooting my first feature comes with all the usual stuff. Banter with my team the entire time, little bit (lots) of stress when s**t hit the fan and I’m still curious if that much haze is actually good for our lungs…

At the end of it though, I reckon I was smiling a good 90% of the time. So fu***ng stoked with what we got - it’ll be a while until we can show anything off so stay tuned.

Can’t wait until what’s next in the narrative space 🎥

20/12/2024

Last shoot of 2024 with

We wanted to use intimate and emotive shots to showcase the space Genki have set up. Pretty stoked with some of mood and colour we pulled out 🎥

Shot on Sony fx6 + Soviet lenses

28/11/2024

Another one from the wacky mind of - one day short film: The Things I’ll Go Through to Watch Dota

Talent:

Producer. Lily Feng
1st AD.
DP. 👋
1st AC.
Cam Trainee.
Gaffer.
Sound.
MUA.
BTS. .qiu .growth

05/08/2024

14/03/2024

New work showcasing some slick new products with .wolf

Love a road trip especially when we get to shoot in amazing locations like this 🗺️

Agency
Talent

05/02/2024

Sneaking in some passion projects before kicking off some busy work 🎥

on the bts snap 📸

23/06/2023

I guess like most creatives I’m guilty of constantly switching what niche I want to focus on, and I guess that’s not a bad thing. But after coming off this recent short film “Old Moon”, it re-sparks that confidence that I 100% want to DOP feature films and tv. With the help of an amazing crew we got some of the best frames of my career by far - s**t I can’t wait to show it off…

📸 .co.nz

11/06/2023

A few frame grabs from a bunch of shoots with and

31/05/2023

Excited for what’s next with