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I’ve been talking about my Zi8 a lot lately that’s just because I like the camera so much and I like thinking up ways to do fun stuff with it. This post is about tricking out your video camera with a wide angle lens! You can gets this nice little lens kit from [...]
This is just like “2001 a Space Odyssey”. Not sure if you remember the scene with the reporter taking pictures. But his camera was very small, well guess what the future is finally hear. I love using my Kodak Zi8. It’s actually a nice little production camera.
Stephen Knapp in the photo. [...]
One of the reasons I enjoyed using my Kodak Zi6 was because of the double AA batteries. But when I first picked up my Kodak Zi8 I was worried about the new battery system the Zi8 uses. Not anymore. Now I can shoot for as long as I want. I only need [...]
Don’t have a shotgun mic but you still need to get a little closer to your source?
Here’s a simple solution for low budget filmmakers or audio podcasters. This is a combo of my video double sound kit and my podcasting kit.
In the image:
Zoom H2
20 foot 1/8 inch headphone cable
Gitzo 3 section Fishpole mic [...]
If you live in the Midwest and just got hit with all the snow we did here in Chicago, it’s a perfect time to grab images for matte paintings. Especially if you are doing snow scenes! So it’s time to grab images of snow blown fields, piles of snow in parking lots, and shear cliffs [...]
If you’re like me and still don’t own a blu-ray burner you are still archiving on lots of DVD disks. At least I have a Duel Layer…
Maybe this is obvious but when doing a lot of backups in a series and you’re not sure how many disks it might take up.
Just write “1 of” [...]
I’m not the most organized person, but I do start my motion graphics or visual effect projects this way. As the image below shows this is a folder full of empty folders.
I use 3D Studio Max and the Adobe Creative Suite. So my folder structure is geared to what I use and my workflow. [...]
I really mean Makeup. You’ve guessed it these are makeup bags. Cost me $3.99 at Target. I know this is not a new idea and I think I remember it back from my film school days. Recently the wife had a couple extra little bags around so I repurposed them for my adapters.
The problem I [...]
January 1st I helped launch Midwest Media Now! This is a project I’ve been talking with my friends for a while now. I’d drive them nuts talking about this stuff and to get me off their back, they’d tell me I should start my own show…
So I did!
It’s taken me about 2 years to [...]
This effect has been getting some buzz lately because of this fantastic looking tilt shift time-lapse effect created by Keith Loutit. There are a number of Photoshop Tutorials out there related to this, this one is great! so check it out. I believe I even saw this explained in “Wired”…
But I figured if it can [...]
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