Director of Photography · Columbus, GA / Phenix City, AL
TREY Walker
Cinematographer for narrative, commercial, and documentary. Available worldwide, local hire in the Southeast.
Features, national campaigns, and self-produced documentaries.
Based in Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama. Southeast USA. Available anywhere.
Owner-operator camera package. G&E package available.
Behind the lens.
Trey Walker, Director of Photography in Columbus, GA & Phenix City, AL.
Trey Walker is a Director of Photography based in Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama. He is a Phenix City native who got started the unglamorous way: at eighteen he took a camera out of his mother’s closet without asking. She saw the pictures and let him keep it. That camera turned into a college scholarship for sports photography, then a job shooting sports and weather at WTVM, where he learned to work fast, in bad light, with no second take.
He went independent after the station, built a name in adventure and astro-photography, and founded Trey Walker Studio in 2018. In 2020 he spent time on the set of a locally shot feature and came away certain: film is where he wanted to be. Since then he has shot features, national campaigns, and self-produced documentaries, and in 2024 he rebranded the studio as Mud Films, bringing in a bench of seasoned crew. He still shoots.
His camera work is naturalistic and physical. He builds shots around real people in real places rather than lighting a scene into something it isn’t, and he will carry a camera up a rope to get an angle that pays off on screen. As he puts it: “You can’t get this standing on the side of a railing. You gotta get in there.”
“I try to capture people as they are, creating shots based off telling real stories.”Trey Walker · The Local Columbus
Pick your lane.
Three kinds of work, each with the projects that sit under it. Pick the lane that matches your job and start there. The reel up top covers the motion.
Narrative
Features and shorts. Blocking, motivated light, and performance held in frame.
Commercial
National and regional brand work. Product, lifestyle, and talent.
- Commercial work at Mud FilmsStudio portfolio · Trey's role varies by projectmudfilms.us →
Documentary
Vérité and access work. Small crew, real conditions, no second take.
- The Road to FirefallDocumentary · Director / DP / ProducerA self-produced documentary that follows a group of friends on the road to Yosemite National Park to film the Firefall, a natural phenomenon. Shot from angles the casual filmmaker never reaches, some of them only by climbing and rappelling.
- Imagine Alabama: Episode 1, The Cahaba LiliesDocuseries pilot · CinematographerTrey and a team of photographer explorers search for the rare Cahaba Lilies in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge. Produced with Alabama The Beautiful.
Official credits.
Cinematographer credits, straight from IMDb.
What I own, what I bring.
Owner-operator camera package, available with or without me. Rates on request, and I’d rather you ask than guess. The highlights are below, and the PDF has the full list.
CAMERA PACKAGE · OWNED
- RED Komodo 6K · Super35, two bodies
- RED Dragon
- Sony FX6 and FX3 · full-frame cinema
- Sony A7S III, A7R III and Nikon Z8 · hybrid
GLASS
- Sigma Cine primes · 28, 40, 65mm T1.5
- DZOFilm Vespid primes · full-frame cine
- Atlas Orion 40mm T2 · 2x anamorphic
- Blazar Remus 45mm T1.5 · full-frame anamorphic
- Sony G Master 16–35 / 70–200mm f/2.8 and Sigma 24–70mm f/2.8
SUPPORT & MOVEMENT
- DJI RS 4 Pro and Ronin 3 Pro gimbals
- Tilta Nucleus-M wireless follow focus
- Edelkrone motorized slider
- Custom Snorricam rig
CAMERAS I OPERATE
- ARRI Alexa Mini
- Rental house packages on request
MONITORING & AUDIO
- SmallHD Cine 7 · built-in Teradek Bolt 500 wireless receiver
- Atomos Ninja V · ProRes recording
- DJI Mic 2 and Rode Wireless GO · wireless audio
LIGHTING & GRIP
- Aputure 1200x, 600x, 600d · LED point sources, spotlight mount
- Amaran F22c / F22x · 2'x2' flexible RGBWW LED mats
- 8x8 and 8x12 frames · Chimera diffusion, Ultra Bounce, flags
- C-stands, arms and Kupo Junior boom
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
- Climbing and rappel access: self-taught on The Road to Firefall
- Astrophotography and night work: long-exposure / low-light
- Run-and-gun broadcast background: WTVM sports & weather
Let’s talk about the shoot.
Send dates, location, and format. I’ll come back with availability and a rate, usually same day.
Southeast USA. Available anywhere. Traveling for the right project.