Cumbria Picture Library - Production Stills Photography

Production Stills Photography

Tony Riley is a full member of BECTU, with a ticket as Stills Photographer, able to work as freelance crew. Prior to a recent switch to this accreditation, he was a freelance Lighting Cameraman for 20 years, working on a wide range of television dramas, documentaries and feature films.

Equipment and facilities provided
We work with a state-of-the-art, 17.6 megapixel, digital camera system, and where required, portable and powerful digitally controlled lighting. This equipment supports wireless transmission - direct from the location to the client's production base; the service needs to be set up by arrangement.

We can also provide a full range of professional imaging facilities in-house, including printing, scanning, presenting images on disk, and any image adjustments required.

A short selection of productions Tony has worked on as cameraman, with his screen credits, is given below. There is also a British Film Institute filmography here.

The Highlander. The first (and best!) one, starring Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert. Credit as Second Unit Mountain Cameraman.

Five Days One Summer. Fred Zinneman's mountaineering love story starring Sean Connery and Betsy Brantley. This won a BAFTA award for it's dangerous location camerawork. Credit as Second Unit Mountain Cameraman.

Taggart. Drama series. Credit as Second Unit Cameraman.

To Be a Yellowbelly. Ch4 documentary series about farm workers in Lincolnshire. Short-listed for The Grierson Award. Credit as Lighting Camera.

Soldier, Soldier. Drama series. Credit as Second Unit Cameraman.

The Lakeland Rock series fronted by Sir Chris Bonington, produced by Border Television, directed by Paul Berriff. Credit as Climbing Cameraman.

Compellance. BFI/Ch4 experimental TV feature film. Producer Paddy Higson, Black Cat Films. Credit as Director of Photography.

The Bat. Award-winning film with Jim Curran, reconstructing the first ascent of an extreme rock climb on Ben Nevis. Co-Producer, Co-Director and Camerawork.

Seaham Harbour. Ch4 documentary series about a mineworkers' community. Produced by Backyard Films. Credit as Lighting Camera.

Cotopaxi Challenge. Judy Leden hang glides from the top of the world's highest active volcano to establish a new world record. With Joe Brown. For National Geographic. Credit as Cameraman.

K2, The Savage Mountain. YTV's documentary on Sir Chris Bonington's expedition to the world's second highest mountain. Produced by Chameleon Films. Credit as Mountain Camera, and ITN News Reports.


Fred Zinneman and Sean Connery take a break from filming Five Days One Summer, on location in the Swiss Alps.	Sean Connery can be seen here doing his own abseiling stunts. The Second Unit dangerous location filming was given a BAFTA award.

Much of the location work for The Highlander was shot in Scotland on Skye. This was preparing for the pinnacle swordfight scene.	Hamish McInnes, Safety Supervisor, checks security on a dangerous fish scene. I promise I am in there, head buried in camera!

Some remarkable location work was done by BBC Outside Broadcasting. This one was on The Old Man of Hoy for ABC TV.	More outside broadcasting on Red Wall Anglesey, for S4C, the Welsh Channel Four. I've still got the hat.

Industrial Safety work for Can UK.	That fish again!

More Highlander. If you ever see the film, my camera postion can be seen at the back of the pinnacle covered in camouflage.

At 18,000' on Kalar Patar, filming on a French Everest expedition.	Second Unit Cameraman on Five Days One Summer.

Filming Jill Lawrence in Border Television's Lakeland Rock series.	And in the same Lakeland Rock series filming on Great Gable with Sir Chris Bonington.

Catching the bus to work in the Swiss Alps for Five Days One Summer. We were actually lowered into camera positions like this, since it was too dangerous for the helicopter to land. Mustn't endanger the equipment!

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Fred Zinneman and Sean Connery take a break from filming Five Days One Summer, on location in the Swiss Alps.

Sean Connery can be seen here doing his own abseiling stunts. The Second Unit dangerous location filming was given a BAFTA award.

Much of the location work for The Highlander was shot in Scotland on Skye. This was preparing for the pinnacle swordfight scene.

Hamish McInnes, Safety Supervisor, checks security on a dangerous fish scene. I promise I am in there, head buried in camera!

Some remarkable location work was done by BBC Outside Broadcasting. This one was on The Old Man of Hoy for ABC TV.

More outside broadcasting on Red Wall Anglesey, for S4C, the Welsh Channel Four. I've still got the hat.

Industrial Safety work for Can UK.

That fish again!

More Highlander. If you ever see the film, my camera postion can be seen at the back of the pinnacle covered in camouflage.

At 18,000' on Kalar Patar, filming on a French Everest expedition.

Filming Jill Lawrence in Border Television's Lakeland Rock series.

And in the same Lakeland Rock series filming on Great Gable with Sir Chris Bonington.

Catching the bus to work in the Swiss Alps for Five Days One Summer. We were actually lowered into camera positions like this, since it was too dangerous for the helicopter to land. Mustn't endanger the equipment!