Upcoming workshop: Lighting for Cinema w/ Polly Morgan
I’m very excited to announce an upcoming workshop in April with Director of Photography Polly Morgan. As some of you may remember was the DP on our short film Mobius that we shot for the introduction of the Canon C300 . She’s fantastic at what she does and has just recently been inducted into Local...
Push/Pull Moves with Kessler Gear
How to Do Push Pull Moves Using Kessler Gear – Full Length from Preston Kanak on Vimeo. For all of my productions that involve time-lapse, I have always utilized Kessler gear. Because these rigs are motorized and have built in controls that allow you to execute a certain move over a specific amount of time,...
In case you missed it: Vimeo Announces New Design
Open Your Eyes to the New Vimeo from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo. I have long found that Vimeo is the best video hosting site out there. Unlike YouTube, the focus has always been on great, user-generated content, and creating a supportive community of like-minded filmmakers. This has meant better content to consume and more...
Video: “How Technology is Influencing Storytelling & Film”
I had the pleasure to be part of a panel at the Sundance Film Festival last week. Adobe invited filmmakers Sharlto Copley, Rob Legato, Jacob Rosenberg and myself to share some of our thoughts on where all of this new technology is taking us as filmmakers. You might recognize Sharlto as the lead actor...
Adobe Post Workflow on Mobius
  Over the next few weeks you’ll see a few posts on the gear we used on Mobius, as well as the pre-production we did on it as well as the post workflow. First – here is a video on rotoscoping that you might find of interest. A few months ago we did a...
NEW GEAR: Litepanels Sola 4 and Croma
LED Lighting will continue to grow in my opinion and become a greater and greater part of how we light things in the cine/docu/photo world. To date a major limitation has been power… most LED cannot output enough light to fight daylight. But as you’ll see in the upcoming year or two –...
It’s been an eventful year… timing out until 2012 – see you then!
2011 was incredibly eventful – as you’ll see in the video below. I just wanted to thank all of the readers of the blog, the blog’s supporters, and everyone I know and have had the chance to meet, share a few laughs, and work with in the past year. I wish you all a wonderful...
Holiday Sale + Round-the-Clock Creative Education Streaming at CreativeLIVE.com
What does a stream of non-stop 24/7 creative education look like? It looks like http://www.creativeLIVE.com/live looks for the rest of 2011. That’s right…24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the rest of the year, you can check out the most popular segments of streaming video education (there’s even a published schedule on that...
SHH…SHHH..SHHAAAARRRRRKKK!!!!
A good friend of mine Michael Muller has been working on this series for the Travel Channel on sharks as a photographer and filmmaker. I’ll be making sure to tune in on December 18th on the Travel Channel to watch this episode – here’s an official description of it followed by a quick Q&A with...
Master of the Skies and Stars: Tom Lowe and his new film TIMESCAPES
There are few people in this world that are as special as Tom Lowe. Most of you know him as one of the pre-eminent time-lapse photographers/filmmakers out there who has been redefining the medium for years now on Timescapes. (Tom was named Astronomy Photographer of the Year last year.) Tom has worked with...
Rocking the RC Heli
I wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Tabb Firchau of Freeflycinema. Tabb has been piloting helicopters (RC and real ones) for close to 2 decades and I’ve know him since my first HDSLR productions including "JOB First Look." We’ve worked on several productions together over the years including...
Black Friday Gadget Guide
I have an upcoming post for the holidays that will involve a few charities as I think that giving back and helping others is one of the best things anyone can do. Today unfortunately, I’m going to digress into a more materialistic world… on the eve of the day Americans call "Black Friday" where they...
