Getting the call to shoot a promo for a wildly popular video game, Dance Central 3, was exciting enough, but when The James told me that we were using Nicki Minaj’s smash-hit, “Starships” I did a little dance of my […]
Camera Talk
As I mentioned in a recent post, I spent Labor Day weekend shooting a thrash metal music video for director Davey Vorhes. Much like our first music video collaboration, the shoot consisted of two-12 hour days shooting in Los Angels. Century […]
In my delaying the release of this posting, I can also share some great news regarding everyone’s favorite film about two women who inherit a nudist resort, “Act Naturally.” On Saturday September 10th, our Chicago Premiere will take place at […]
I was vocal about my disdain for the DSLR craze in a posting from last year. Upon returning from my time in Maine with the Canon 7D shooting Lucas McNelly’s “Up Country,” I was more than a little dissatisfied with […]
There are several ways to look at the millions of dollars that Sony has spent educating/training members of the International Cinematographer’s Guild (Local 600) on 3D story telling over the last year (members of the DGA and other guilds are coming […]
Say what you will about 3D, all signs seem to point to the fact that it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. I had been hesitant to sign up for the Sony/ICG 3D training courses offered for free to members of […]
James Kapner and I have been trying to collaborate with Chali 2na for some time now. Things fell through at the last minute last summer for his single, “Graff Time“, but we finally made it happen on one long Autumn […]
The most frustrating aspects of the 7D are as follows (in no particular order) –for the record–I haven’t searched the web for similar lists, these are all 100% my thoughts after spending 7 days in the backwoods of Maine with […]
First day of Up Country is in the can…and was quite an adventure. We had trouble locking down a grip/electric house because of an insurance issue, an actor who headed in to take a shower five minutes before call time, […]
I’m having a tough time with this decision: to YouTube or not? A savvy media professional advised that I stick with the universally accepted/trusted CDN that Google spent so much money acquiring. There are lots of positives: reliability, track record, […]
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