 The original director of photography, Owen Roizman (qv), quit the  production after about a month to go work on another film. His  replacement, Gale Tattersall (qv), had his contribution cut short  not long afterwards when he had to quit after being rushed to  hospital with a severe sinus infection. Fed up with the situation,  director Barry Sonnenfeld (qv) took over the cinematography  himself, reasoning that if anything happened to him then production  would be shut down, so he didnt have much to lose.