Last weekend I did a second project with photographer Jack Hollingsworth. We hit it off on the first job I did with him back in December, and seemed to have similar styles and way of working. This time, Jack hired me to shoot a video to promote him as a photographer. He really understands the power a video can have of giving potential clients a glimpse at his style and personality, which will ultimately help in getting him hired. So Jack had a two-day photo shoot planned, doing several lifestyle and glamour photography with 10 different models, and my job was to shoot behind-the-scenes footage of him working. Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘Canon 7D’
A New Year
Well it’s a brand new year, new decade, and a good time to reflect on the past year and come up with goals for the next one. I had the good fortune of spending New Years with my wife and some other folks in sunny Jamaica, on a work/pleasure trip. A friend of mine is developing some property in Jamaica into a resort/tourist attraction and he hired me to come down and do some video and photos of the progress. I went down 2 years ago, when he was just starting out, to do a video, and he wanted to update people on the progress. It was not a lot of work, and frankly spending some time (especially in the winter) in 85 degree weather was a treat. Read more…
The Stock Market
The other week I got to take part in a fun shoot on a type of project I had never really done before. And, this was the first job I had gotten through Twitter! (For those who think that Twitter is just about finding out what someone had for lunch, it’s not. I use it pretty much solely to get tips and ideas from industry people.) A guy I follow posted that photographer Jack Hollingsworth (@photojack) was looking for 5D/7D video shooters in the Boston area. I got in touch with Jack, and he checked out my stuff and I got the gig. The job was for Image Source, a stock photo/footage company based in London that has started to release a new line of products that they call “cross-media”. Read more…
Romeo Files – Second Shoot…with video!
Last weekend, the weather cooperated and we got in our second (and final) day of shooting for the Our Spirit series, “The Romeo Files”. I had hoped to get this post out sooner, but Thanksgiving and family stuff got in the way. The second shoot day was long and somewhat rushed as we were unable to shoot any exteriors on the first day due to rain. Seeing that over 60% of the script called for exteriors, and that mid-November daylight is pretty short, we had a lot to get done, but despite getting behind schedule on the first few scenes of the day, we caught up and finished just as the sun was setting. Read more…
Romeo Files – First 7D Experiences
Yesterday I did a shoot for a new web-series for Our Spirit (who I did another video for earlier this year). We were supposed to do our second (and final) day of shooting today, but we had to cancel due to bad weather, so we will resume next weekend. This will be a five episode (each 2-3 minutes long) series that will be released every few weeks on the Our Spirit site starting next year. Due to schedules and budget the entire shoot was slated for two days, which made for a very tight schedule, but we got through everything we needed to film yesterday. Frankly, I think that my experience with working on the 48-Hour Films helped in working on such a tight schedule. Read more…
Blogs with Balls Wrap-up and Highlights Video
I returned the beginning of this week from Blogs with Balls in Las Vegas. Visiting Vegas, even if it is for work, can be a risky place but I came back in one piece and not completely broke. (I fared better than my traveling companion Rob Baker, who came back with a case of H1N1. No joke. Although he is doing much better now.) The folks from HHR Media put on an excellent conference, that was well-attended and had some great panelists. I got the sense that for people in the sports blogging world, who are doing this as a business, this event was one not to be missed. Unfortunately as a mostly non-sports fan some of the names, faces, and discussions were lost on me, but it was clearly a successful event. Read more…
Packing for Travel…Blogs with Balls #1
I am sitting on the plane headed to Las Vegas for Blogs with Balls. With me is Rob Baker of Kabimba Media (who designed this website) who is going to be helping out with the videos. Should be a fun time, with some work mixed in for good measure. My friend Chris, who is one of the organizers of the conference, has put together a good group of panelists and some fun events for the next few days and I’ll capture as much of it as I can. Read more…
It’s Heeerrree!
My shiny new Canon 7D camera is here! I pre-ordered it through Amazon about three weeks ago, but Amazon seemed to be behind the ball on shipping. I had been seeing clips posted online from people all over who had received THEIR cameras, and I wanted mine! So I called Calumet Photo in Cambridge and Newtonville Camera in Newton and got on their waiting lists. Sure enough, the next day (yesterday), I got a call from the fine folks at Newtonville that they had one for me. That was easy. Read more…