Mr Smith’s Peach Seeds – a short documentary shot on DSLR by Stewart Copeland
Guest post by Stewart Copeland One year ago, I came across a picture of Roger Smith, showing him towering over his diorama of a baseball stadium. Spectators lined the balsa wood bleachers and players covered the felt field. Each person – there were more than a hundred in all – was meticulously carved from the...
‘West Away’, a short DSLR film about the search for unridden waves in remote South Australia
Guest post by Mark Tipple Ocean : West Away from Mark Tipple on Vimeo. The idea behind West Away: A number of years ago I used to meet up with my friends Mike and Luke in various remote parts of the country to spend a week surfing, camping in the dirt and telling stories; then...
Prolost Flat
For shooting video, I’ve set up every Canon HDSLR I’ve owned the same way since the very beginning, and the 5D Mark III is no different.
Start with the Neutral Picture Style
Set Sharpness to zero—all the way to the left
Set Contrast...
Buying Mics & Hacking Audio for Your DSLR Video Setup
HDSLR video is a great way to get high quality footage on a micro budget; and a great way to keep that budget micro is to be picky about what accessories are right for your setup. I recently received an email question focused on this and–in particular–if I had to choose between the Rode Stereo...
Shooting with the Basics
By Matt Allard Villa 9 from Matthew Allard on Vimeo. I spent a week in Bali on a break recently and decided to make a short little film. I didn’t plan to do this beforehand and had only taken equipment to take photographs, so this is a good example of what you can do with...
Turntables in the camps – Simon Weyhe shoots a dslr documentary in Lebanon and Jordan
Turntables in the camps from simon weyhe on Vimeo. I recently spent twelve days in Lebanon and it was an adventure and an experience I will never forget; I saw another side of the world. I was traveling with Simon Lebon and Martin Fernando from Den Sorte Skole and Rita and Lei from Ladybox, who...
Color Correcting Food with Colorista II
My friend Pete came by with some Canon 7D (UPDATE: Oops, it’s the 5D Mark II) video and stills. We sat together for about an hour grading the video to match the stills, which had been professionally shot and processed by photographer Eric Wo...
Reason #2,525 Why I love HDSLRs [Erik's Guest Post]
[Reminder: Since each of my staff are experts in their own right, you’ll be seeing more and more posts from these talented people in weeks and months to come. Today, Erik--our video guru--takes you on a ride down the HDdSLR road to extol yet another reason he loves this cool new format. (It also is...
The Panasonic GH2, DSLRs, and Funky Frame Rates For Creative Effect
Many folks wrote in the comments of my Canon 60D article something to the effect of “what about the upcoming Panasonic GH2?”
The GH2 is not yet available. Despite having been briefly up for pre-order on both Amazon and B&H, it is now l...
BRICK & STEEL
A fake trailer for a sequel to a movie that was never made, a birthday party gone horribly wrong, a CalArts reunion, and a fun test of achieving a hyper-poppy Stephen Sonenfeld (colorist on Transformers, Mission Impossible III...
Sony PMW-F3 Shoots, Scores, Has a Little Brother
Sony very wisely lent one of their pre-production PMW-F3 cameras to Jason Wingrove, shooter, director, and co-host of the invaluable Red Centre podcast. He made this:
compulsion - teaser from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo.
I’ve seen the raw fo...
HDSLR Shopping? What You Want is a Canon 60D
If you’re shopping for a DSLR right now, for the primary purpose of shooting video (being familiar with all the pros and cons), what you want is the Canon 60D.
I felt compelled to write this because the 60D seems to get left out of the conversat...
