Matrix-Style Photography?
Checking Vincent Laforet’s blog, recently, I came across a video that gives a behind-the-scenes of a recent commercial that was filmed for Rip Curl to promote their new Mirage boardshorts. The video footage is shot by utilizing 52 different point-and-shoot still cameras, all firing simultaneously. This is a technique I’ve been very interested in, I [...]
Photo Sequence: Chase Jarvis
This is one the latest on-location video from Chase Jarvis, one of my favorite photographers. In this video, he goes into detail about how to shoot a sequence shot, in this instance, shooting some action with a skier. This was right up my alley because sports and action is exactly what i want to do. [...]
Photographing the World’s Tallest Tree: National Geographic
I saw this a while back, but recently watched this video again and decided to post it up. I’ve also had a huge interest in remote cameras and rigs, which is why I wanted to share this. National Geographic went on a mission to document the world’s tallest tree, a redwood. Photographing a tree thats [...]
Kelby vs. McNally: The Showdown
A spoof on the classic McDonald’s commercial starring Larry Bird and Michael Jordan. This one stars Photoshop guru Scott Kelby and one of my favorite photographers, Joe McNally. In my opinion, I think they’re just showing off the capabilities of the Nikon CLS flash system. But to be honest, I’ve never had this much luck [...]
Hitler D3x Rants
I wanted to throw up a link to this video that I found on youtube, its a spoof from the movie “Valkyrie”, that discriminates against the newly released, Nikon D3x. Pay attention to the subtitles (especially towards the end), I found them to be quite hilarious. I really don’t want to give it away, so [...]
Da Grip
Here is a great video I came across recently featuring my new favorite photographer, Joe McNally. He is very knowledgeable about photography. This video demonstrates the best way to hold your camera, known as “da grip”, i’ll assume. It really only applies to left-eyed photographers, but the principles can be used and adjusted to fit [...]