A short film by surf photographer Mickey Smith. I couldn’t really understand what he was saying, but the visuals are rather pleasing.
Category Archives: Video
13th Witness (Timothy McGurr) Interview
An interview by Jeff Staple (of Staple Design and Reed Space) talking about photography, John Mayer and the wonder of the internet. 13th Witness is who did the videos of Nigel cruising around NYC.
Cinema Wheel Co. Promo
Filmed and edited by Will Stroud using a Panasonic HVX200 and a Canon 7D. A couple of Nathans and Coreys clips were filmed on an iPhone 4. Amazingly it is hard to pick out which ones.
BSD commercial
A commercial for BSD’s new frame, the ‘WZA’ designed by Mike Taylor. Very clean and entertaining. Edited by Dave Sowerby.
Personal projects and why they’re important.
The personal project. This can be anything, anything that you as a photographer or videographer can come up with.
I myself am a full time professional photographer. That means all of my income is based on my ability to sell myself and get my clients the images they are looking for. Whether it is a family looking for pictures for the holidays, or a bride looking to have me capture every single moment of her wedding day. I am always shooting not only for myself but for the client as well. But there are things like. Guidelines and deadlines. Once I am finished I move onto the next client or possibly work on 10 different projects at once.
I love what i do for a living and i am grateful that i get to work my but off to be able to do it. But every once in a while even the great photographers in the world get burnt out on churning out photos of kids and wedding dresses weekly. This is where the personal project comes in.
A personal project is a goal that you give yourself in your photographic ( or video ) endeavors. It can be a portrait series, a landscape series, photographs of shoes. It can be completely random. The entire concept is up to you. The personal project helps keep the mind fresh. It keeps you thinking about something new even if you have pigeon holed yourself into a market that has you shooting the same thing day in day out. It doesn’t matter what type of work you do, personal projects are important.
I know many photographers who have completed several projects over their lives and have no desire to show anybody but their closest friends and family. Theyre not in the project for the coverage it may bring them. They’re in it for the love of the photo.
There are also photographers who take on a personal project for the reason to show as many people as possible. Whoever will want to see the images can see them. It may be to raise awareness for a cause or to show a side of a world most people do not get to look into. They feel its their duty as a photographer to educate the world on whatever it is they have experienced.
Whatever the project may be. As a photographer, professional or amateur, you should always at least have something in the back of your mind that drives you. Something to break up the every day regimen.
If you could do a photo project on anything in the world. What would it be?
Got it? … Good. Now get started.
Posted in Art, Photo, Uncategorized, Video
Fluorescent Lighting
Just want to point this out: Fluorescent lights flicker at around 50Hz (50 flashes per second). This has a weird effect on cameras; if your shutter speed is above 1/50th, you will capture the flicker of the light. That is what happened to this video.
El Guincho – Bombay
This music video contains everything necessary to be awesome; good music, absurd humor, topless girls on BMX bikes, and even a skateboarding clip. It was filmed by spanish cinematographer Marc Gomez del Moral and produced by CANADA.
Sony and Panasonic HD DSLR-inspired Video Cameras
Sony and Panasonic have been busy trying to catch up to the recent hysteria created by Canon’s DSLR series capable of awesome cinema-like HD video, bigger image sensors, and interchangeable lenses. Sony has recently introduced the NEX-VG10, and Panasonic will introduce the AG-AF100 by the end of 2010.
Both companies took a more traditional approach to camera design, much to BMX and skateboarding’s benefit, with handles, proper audio inputs and mics, autofocus, and the ability to record and store long video clips . Anyone that has shot video with a 5D, or similar, has dealt with the shakiness of the footage. Shoulder-mounts and other stabilizers aren’t always the cheapest or most convenient. These two new cameras really open the door for more filming possibilities, like long lines.
Check out some of the specs for both:
I’m seriously considering making the trip to B&H to see if I can press all of the buttons on the Sony. It is definitely the more affordable of the two. Recently my VX-2000 needed some much-needed CCD and head repair, and I’ve been looking at the many options for an upgrade. Looks like I’ll be scrounging together all of my loose change.
Beer and Film Tour
Out for a while with a broken leg, I’m constantly looking for things to keep my mind off missing the best sessions of the year weather-wise. I found a great event here in Athens, Ga sponsored by New Belgium Brewing Company. They are big supporters of bike riding in any form, and highly encourage pedaling over driving when possible. They sponsor many events promoting their responsibility to the environment and their passion for all things bicycle related. The event I’m heading to is a stop on their “Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour“. It features sampling 16 of their “Lips of Faith” brews, local vendor’s food, and projector showings of homemade movies from “kayaking buddies navigating grizzlies and whales on a paddling trip from Alaska to Seattle, to an absurdist spaghetti western about a flat tire (and some beer). There are visual odes to people’s love affairs with their bikes, assorted comedy shorts, and thought-provoking environmental pieces.”
Want to feel productive/eco-friendly? Check out their Team Wonderbike campaign, and sign yourself up! “Team Wonderbike is a laughing war whoop, a social movement, an opening salvo in the campaign to greatly increase the use of one of mankind’s greatest inventions, the bicycle.
I’ll try to snap a few pictures of the event and share them. Have a good Friday evening!
Push It A Stop 