Paul Debevec is among the honorees to be included at the Annual SMPTE Awards Gala.  On October 26, 2017 SMPTE, the Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers will honor Paul Debevec with the SMPTE Progress Medal for his contributions to visual effects technology.  Paul Debevec’s work enables studios to reproduce real-world lighting condition.  Paul Debevec is known for his development of high dynamic range photography.  He pioneered the use of HDR light-probes to recover lighting from real environments.  This technology adds to the realism of modern visual effects.  His work is used in virtually every movie and television show that includes photo-realistic lighting. Debevec is currently adjunct professor at University Of Southern California’s Institute For Creative Technologies and Senior Staff Engineer at Google VR. Find out more about Paul Debevec’s work here:  http://www.pauldebevec.com/