Do People Still Want Newspapers?

April 21, 2009

Yes they do. Sorry, let me just adjust that. Yes, they still want what newpapers have always given them, they just want it in a different way. Look at the iPhone. Some say that it’s the new newspaper and they could well be right. Look at all the apps that are available for weather, headlines, [...]

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Aerial Photo of Your House?

April 6, 2009

A very frequently asked question indeed. Although the majority of my work is for commercial clients and stock images, it’s very easy to get a photograph of your own house. The photographs can be supplied as a large format print of any size ready for framing and make a lovely gift. The example case [...]

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Are Car Magazine Websites Missing a Trick with Video?

April 1, 2009

Many people in the motoring and lifestyle magazine publishing industry are looking at online versions of their publications with mixed feelings right now, especially with regard to the video content..
Journalists and editors are just thinking, “It’s for the IT department, nothing to do with me, I’ll just get lumbered with extra work…. And as for [...]

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How to make short dolly / crane shots for free

March 25, 2009

Graham at The Flash Centre sent me over this link I though was a really cool idea and had to share it with you. It’s not often I see a technique that’s so effective, yet so blindingly simple it makes you laugh out loud and wonder why you’ve never seen it before, but this is [...]

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The Power Of The Still Image – Scott Kelby’s Blog

March 23, 2009

A photographer’s email list gave me the heads-up on this guest post on Scott Kelby’s blog by Jay Maisell. It’s about the power of the still images as opposed to moving / video and is a very interesting read. I’m very excited about the new ways to use motion content to tell a story, whether [...]

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Ice Driver on The Eoscars

March 3, 2009

Just a quick note to say that the movie is currently on The Eoscars. If you haven’t already seen the site, it’s a great place for gathering together all the good short movies out there that have been shot in the Canon 5D MkII. The idea is to move on from all of the initial [...]

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The Ice Driver Project III

March 2, 2009

Here’s an edit of the final footage. You can see a hi res version on SmugMug here. The learning curve for me as a first time user of Apple Final Cut Studio was a steep one and thanks go to various people for their help and advice in getting me up there. Most notable being [...]

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The Ice Driver Project II

March 2, 2009

Previously, I described how I prepared the lightest possible collection of gear to use the Canon 5D in Sweden, hoping that we could cover all the bases and get what we needed. My 1DS works fine in temparatures below -30c, so I had no worries about the camera dying, though previously when shooting stills and [...]

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The Ice Driver Project

February 17, 2009

Just to bring you up to speed about this project, it started more than six months ago when I first saw video footage from the Canon 5D Mk2. Then I saw more footage shot on it and managed to try one briefly at The Flash Centre in Leeds and was hooked. I knew just the [...]

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First – Light…..

February 15, 2009

You’d like to think that more than two weeks set aside for a trip to northern Sweden would be plenty to shoot a short movie about driving at high speeds on frozen lakes, wouldn’t you? Me too. I’ve been to Sweden working plenty of times before and while there may be a few days overcast [...]

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