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In the Shadow of Heart Mountain
Spent the week around Cody, Wyoming filming for Vanessa’s documentary ‘In the Shadow of Heart Mountain’, which is about the Heart Mountain Japanese ‘relocation camp’, or perhaps better described as a concentration camp. On Thursday we climbed the 8,000 foot peak that hovers over the former camp site (see panoramic photos).
These were shot with the [...]
Best Practice for shooting digital to CF
Ran across an issue this week when shooting a short film for a classmate. We were shooting on my Canon 5D Mark II with a Filemate 32GB Compact Flash Card. The first night we shot less than 20 gigs of data. At the end of the day I offloaded the movie files but left them [...]
The Miner – Production Stills
A few stills from my recent production in Oregon. Shot on the Canon 5d Mark II, we also used a Glidetrack, Indie Jib, Karen’s custom dolly setup on an old set of steel rails at the location.
Color Calibrate your monitor, for all our sakes!
A friend of a friend, who happens to be a mathematics genius whose hobby is hardware color calibration, recently used his X-Rite Color Calibration device to create an ICC profile for my laptop. Since most people don’t have access to Glen, they should follow these instructions to at least do a better-than-default calibration. I have [...]
Canon 5D Mark II and the HPX170P
I wanted to try a little experiment mixing footage from the Canon 5D Mark II and the Panasonic HPX170P – mainly because I have ready access to both these cameras and would like to shoot with both and be able to mix the footage for a variety of reasons. I love the ergonomics, sound capture [...]
Tiffen Filter test with the Canon 5D Mark II
Karen and I went to Yerba Buena park the other day with my Canon 5D Mark II, the Cinevate baseplate and Karen’s RedRock Micro Matte Box. From school we picked up Tiffen 4×4 glass filters:
ND6, Black Pro-Mist
Warm Pro-Mist
Ultra Contrast 1
Low Contrast 1/2
ND 6
We took one still of each filter and a short HD [...]
SF Panoramic
Went for a sort of urban hike/hike the other day from the Golden Gate bridge, up around the point past the Lands End and the Cliff House to the end of the Judah line, then rode that home. Along the way I snapped this classic SF shot. Click to view the full image.
Gossip
In the background. Note to self – buy an in-ear headset so I don’t look like I wandered out of a McDonald’s drive-through.
Thesis Film Shoot Screen Grabs
Karen Abad posted some screen grabs from the project we worked on over the weekend. She was the DP, I was operator. We used my Canon 5D Mark II with a 70-200mm L USM Canon lens, a 28-105 Canon L USM and a 50mm 1.2 Nikkor Prime with a $15 Nikon -> Canon adapter. Take [...]
