Adobe SpeedGrade Tutorial
One of the big announcements that caught my interest at NAB was Adobe CS6′s inclusion of the high-end color grading software SpeedGrade within the suite. This is a similar move to what Final Cut Studio did several years ago when they included "Color" within their suite for free – and I have always been...
NAB Recap pt. 2: Support and Accessories
Accessories are a BIG part of NAB – it’s not just about the cameras… Here are a few of those tools that caught my eye and that I think are relevant to this blog’s readership. Pictured to the left is the Kessler Fusion. I wrote a post on this a few weeks before NAB when Kessler launched...
Christie’s Auction in support of Conflict Photographer Anton Hammerl’s Children
As many of you may know – these past few years have been particularly cruel in terms of the amount of journalist and photojournalists going missing, being kidnapped, or getting killed in conflict zones. Next Tuesday, Christie’s auction house is holding its first ever sale of contemporary photojournalism works to honor Anton Hammerl –...
NAB Recap pt. 1: Cameras and Lenses
Apologies for the recent radio silence! Following the week at NAB I have been on the road from San Francisco, to New York, to Chicago, to Boston, and finally back again. That being said, I didn’t want to let NAB 2012 pass without mentioning a few of the products I saw there this year...
NAB 2012: Vincent Laforet on judging the World Press Photo multimedia competition
By site editor Dan Chung: I took the opportunity today to speak to photojournalist turned film director Vincent Laforet about the issues around this year’s World Press Photo Multimedia competition. Laforet was the jury chair for the competition and his comments come after criticism from many in the newspaper video industry of the criteria the...
Adobe Production Premium CS6
In the studio we have been working exclusively with Adobe Premiere for a year now, and haven’t looked back. The ability to natively edit video formats and dynamically link between different applications has made our workflow much smoother as we shoot a variety of different formats, from the H.264 to R3D codec. Last week, Adobe...
New Marshall 5.6″ monitor
The above video details the Marshall V-LCD56MD 5.6 inch monitor, which we recently took out with us on a shoot. I have been waiting for this monitor for a long time.. The form factor is perfect for an on board monitor, but it includes a lot of the features that before now were typically only...
Canon joins the world of 4K
This morning, Canon announced two cameras that it will be showing at NAB, along with their specs, the EOS-1D C and C500 – both 4K capable cameras. I have seen footage from the 1D camera and it looks great. An interesting point here is that I have only seen that footage at 1080p – not...
Looking Forward to NAB: New Cameras
NAB is right around the corner, but the past couple days have already given us a preview of what we might expect to see there and more. To be honest I was surprised by the two cameras that were announced this past week, as it seems like only yesterday that we were talking about the...
New Zeiss wide angle SLR Lenses – and how they stack up against their Canon EF counterparts
One of the most questions I get asked by HDSLR filmmakers is: Should I buy Canon EF lenses or Zeiss ZE lenses for HDSLR video? I recently tested two wide angle Zeiss ZE SLR lenses – one that is currently available (25mm 1:2), and another that won’t be available until May of this year (15mm...
Workflow: Green Screen Tutorial
If you watch just about any movie or television show today – there’s a high probability that at least one green screen shot is part of that production. The quality of green screen and CGI environments have gotten to be so good – that’s it often tough to argue against the economics of using...
Filmmaking Book Recommendations
For years now I’ve been asked what books I would recommend to people interested in learning more about filmmaking. Many of the people who ask me are photographers moving into motion, DPs moving into directing, as well as every day people moving into some aspect of filmmaking, screenwriting and/or directing. So here...
