Canada DSLR workshops this November
Currently these are going to be in Calgary and Ottawa but Toronto will be added. Unfortunately Montreal and Vancouver will not be among them as these are Vistek workshops and only where they have stores. This is very much a beginners/ intermediate workshop… For more info click the image below…I see what they did there...
Holy CRAP!! It’s utterly ridiculous merchandise!! “Fruit of the Bloom”!!
I love my t-shirts as people know and I wanted a t-shirt that said “F**k me! Look at that Bokeh!!”…so what did I come across whilst surfing the interweb? Cafepress.com. Start your own t-shirt shop…it’s free, so I did!! This is NOT A JOKE…it’s not April the 1st. People often say make your own t-shirts....
EDIT: Photos from SANTA MONICA!!! The great Mid-West meet up in Chicago and one in Santa Monica
EDIT: Here are some of my photos from the meet up, post links to yours here! Created with flickr slideshow from softsea. This will be my third one in Chicago, almost fourth, but I had to cancel one when my planes got screwed up and I didn’t make it in time. Kim St. Aubin (thanks...
From DSLR to Rangefinder, learning to shoot stills again from scratch…
Getting a Canon 5DmkII really made me love shooting stills again, something I had not really done much of since my late teens. It’s an amazing camera and with it’s auto focus and amazing low light it’s been a joy to shoot stills with. The one thing though is it does a lot of the...
A simple but very direct way of showing the difference between full frame and crop sensor
Do check out my lens blog for more info but I had to share this very simple video that really shows just how MASSIVE the difference is between a full frame sensor on the 5DmkII and the one in the 7D/ T2i…I did not make this. Mike Collins did. I should have done as it...
Vimeo awards in NY. 2 DSLR masterclasses and a panel with myself and Vincent LaForet
EDIT: get $30 off for first 30 people who register using code “bloom” !! You get in for just $90!!!! In New York on the 8th and 9th of October? Well you should be! It’s the first ever Vimeo Awards, celebrating filming in all it’s forms with talks, workshops, screenings and of course awards. I...
Another new episode of “Critics”!
We start filming Season 3 next month, now in a change to my previous blog, we are totally embracing YOU…in a non pervy way that is! Do you want your film/ video/ movie etc to be reviewed by myself and the American fellow? If so then click the image below to submit your own! Good...
Some of the superb films made for the last “Weekend Challenge”
I really wanted to put some of the superb films made in my second “Weekend Challend: A Character Study”. 28 films in all were made by you for this. I wanted to get you to introduce sync into your films to show how important good sound. Obviously some were better than others…the ones were the...
Very simple short shot using one of my favourite lenses, the Canon 100mm F2.8L IS macro
I spent the weekend in Michigan and then Indiana with my great friend Eric Kessler, maker of the Kessler Crane gear. I was there to just chill out and relax but for me relaxation is actually filming, so I did a few timelapses of the beautiful area and when I saw Eric’s fish tank I...
BBC accepts DSLRs as full acquisition for HD programmes on a case by case basis
Edit: it seems there has been a bit of a backtrack. The beeb called HD magazine last night and have now clarified it is on a case by case basis. Which is what i thought anyway... But if you are in uk check out a new children’s sitcom for the BBC shot entirely on the...
Canon 4k concept camera and first images from Canon Expo in NY
Day one was the press/ VIP preview of the once every five years Canon Expo. Basically everything Canon makes and what lies ahead. All photos apart from the fish eye were taken on the iphone 4 so I could blog as I went along… Lots of cools things to see but nothing really new DSLR...
Follow my trip to the USA on my tumblr blog including the NYC Canon Expo
Lots of really interesting things happening on this trip to the USA. Starting off in New York the Canon Expo. This is a once every five years epic event, almost like an NAB just for Canon products. We are talking more than cameras here, printers, photocopiers, broadcast products etc..of course it’s the cameras why I...
