Is it worth this?
- At March 27, 2010
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This photographer is nothing short of amazing, or insane, or probably a bit of both!! To quote from the article:
Wildlife photographer Greg du Toit was so determined to capture the perfect image of wild lions drinking he sat submerged in their watering hole for three months.
Eh? 3 months for real? Yup – and it could have killed him (and not just from the lions!!). So, dear readers, how far are you willing to go to get the perfect image??
Check out the article for all the horrible, yet still amazing details!!
BBC Wildlife Masterclass
- At March 27, 2010
- By Photograjph
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This is a must-see for all you wildlife photography fans, and even fans of BBC photography in general – they’ve released their masterclass series of PDFs for download!! And they’re free!!
Go and check them out on this link
Film hurts my head
- At March 18, 2010
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So I’ve been tinkering with film lately – and I find myself yet again attracted to the complex, the difficult, the troublesome!! My film experience thus far has involved shooting some theatre for various friends, and I’m about to do some short “video clip” style song/theatre numbers that I’m really quite excited about.
I’ve been mulling over ways to shoot music video clips, particularly the different ways I could combine still photography with moving images, and I’ve had some cool ideas I really want to try out (well, I think they’re cool – and of course they’re complex). I’m on delay though, I’m waiting for some equipment to arrive to help me make it happen!!
But in the interim I’ve been mulling over the problems of syncing audio and video – there appears to be 2 main approaches:
- Shoot as a single sequence – no syncing required if you just shoot the whole thing, wholus bolus, in one take!! This is my kind of shooting, lots of technical challenges and much less time in front of the computer editing; or
- Separate audio, and shoot multiple sequences (miming the audio) – this allows editing together the more traditional video clips we are used to and take for granted. It’s easy to do, and generally solves a bunch of problems (but niggles my “get it right in the camera” idealism)
Turns out I’m wrong – there are people out there who have even more complex aspirations than me, and achieve simple brilliance. Case in point – the new Diane Birch video clip for her latest single “Valentino” is definitely going to go viral, simply because the clip is beautifully simple until you check it out behind the scenes….
Seriously, watch the clip first, have a think about how you would solve all the challenges and shoot it, and then watch the BTS version. You won’t regret it!!
Cheap wedding photography
- At March 07, 2010
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Wow, Judge Joe Brown styles himself as a bit of a pro – still, he knows his kit, and clearly knew a _Canon Rebel_ was not a 1-series!! He was also onto the fact that the lenses were slow…
Notwithstanding the shooter’s behaviour in court (which definitely counts as “unprofessional” in my book), keep in mind we are talking about $US 1300 – what can the bride possibly expect for so little cash?? This is why I don’t shoot weddings (or, more specifically, why I charge a seriously large amount of money to be sure I can get the job done properly!!)
The trick is not to over-deliver for the price – and I know shooters who think they can do weddings for a few hundred dollars! Maybe you can, but I personally would be making a loss on every gig if I tried that approach!!
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