I wasn’t planning to do a review of my new purchase, but some Twitter buddies were curious about my new tripod, so I thought I’d post a little overview. It just arrived yesterday and has not gone on a shoot yet, but I played with it a bit today and can go over some of the features. The tripod in question is the Manfrotto (Bogen) 535 Carbon Fiber legs with the new 504HD head. I wanted a second tripod and when I was at NAB, in April, that was one of the things I was looking for. Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘director of photography’
Hear me geek out on Planet5D
I was flattered when Mitch Aunger, the creator behind the successful website Planet5D.com (devoted to all things Canon HDSLR), asked to do a live web interview with me. We met at NAB last month at the All-In Film event, which I had invited him to, and he recently saw the latest 48 Hour Film I DPed, and asked if I wanted to do an interview. So tonight at 9pm EST I will be having a web video interview with Mitch. I imagine will talk about cameras and other fun toys, as well as some of my other work and my favorite breakfast cereals. Read more…
Another 48 Hours
So here’s how it went down:
At 7pm Friday night, my buddy Keith texted me: “Sci-fi”. I responded: “Ick”. He wrote back: “I’m sorta thinking ick also”.
I was about to embark on my sixth effort in a 48 Hour Film Project and Keith had pulled Sci-fi as our genre. I didn’t really want to make a Sci-fi film. Neither did he. We had the opportunity to throw it back and go for the “wild card” genre, but that could have been worse. Read more…
Stock Footage Shoot Clips-Canon 5DMk2
Here are some shot selections from my first shoot for Image Source, a stock footage company. This was part of their cross-media collections, and I was working alongside photographer Jack Hollingsworth who was shooting “matched” stills to the video I was shooting. You can read more about it here.
What Happens at Blogs With Balls…
Here is one of the recap videos I put together for the Blogs With Balls conference that I shot at in Las Vegas. I assure you, this was as much hard work as it looks. Read more about this trip here.
Romeo Files Selects – First 7D Project
I put together a little selection of shots from my first project with the Canon 7D. This shoot was for a web series called “The Romeo Files” for the non-profit Our Spirit. All footage was shot 1080/24p and the primary lens was the Canon 17-55 2.8 and a few were shot with the Canon 70-200 2.8. You can read more about the shoot here.
Beauty and Beautiful Cameras
This past week I had two shoots in NYC for Image Source. I did my first shoot with them back in December and it was their first time using the Canon 5DMkII, but they were thrilled with what they got from it and liked the stuff I was shooting. The client I worked with on that shoot (Lisa Curesky) passed my name on to other art directors at Image Source and photographers they work with, which landed me these gigs. I went into these jobs pretty stoked as the content of these shoots (“beauty”) was different than what I am used to. I have certainly shot a ton of people with the goal of making them look as good as possible, Read more…
Meeting of the Minds
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…
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…
Kiva Sytems – The Magic Shelf
This is one of the fun videos I have shot for Kiva Systems. This video explains the basic concept behind their product. We wanted to use more of a storytelling approach instead of a straight-forward explanation of the product.