Thank you Joe, I think you would like him. And, speaking of the gift of Grands, James III came over for a bit today and he went for his inaugural John Deere tractor ride. Like the other seven, he loved it and promptly fell sound asleep cradled in my left arm. He hasn't been to HQ yet, so we still has years of treats in store.
Doing some systems testing and fine tuning the Sony FS/7 for a big aviation video project. This is a series of clips captured in the simmering Texas heat............
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Doing some systems testing and fine tuning the Sony FS/7 for a big aviation video project. This is a series of clips captured in the simmering Texas heat............
That's really not bad considering the heat waves as I look at how much trouble I had to get a sharp photo last weekend at the airshow...
It's an interesting phenomenon in video/cinema work. Heat waves and atmospherics glisten, but they don't ruin the imagery like they do in still photography. Actually, in many cases it kind of enhances the footage. Those clips were captured on a 100 degree afternoon and the wind was 10-20 so the air was plenty churned up and I was using my Canon 200-400with the 1.4 kicked in on occasion. I wouldn't have bothered to shoot stills in those conditions, they would have been next to worthless.
Headed to 110 in The Lone Star today.......and it is not a dry heat! I may need one of Anwar’s white outfits if this keeps up, and it’s supposed to for the next 10 days. Shooting a two day project right under one of DFW’s final approaches, may have to divert my attention when the light is right.
Thanks Erich it is very heavy sometimes, I miss a great sequence because you want to track the subject all the time and that is not always possible also you always have the urge to go chimping while the demo is still going on and then you sometime's miss stuff..
The other thing I amazed by is the ability by some people to get great results even when the sun and light is so harsh.
One of the things i always struggle with is exposure, until now I always shot great exposed sky's and grey or dark subject's.
Until last Monday when my friend Roel asked if I ever used the light meter in my camera
And my reaction was what!! and he showed me that when you look trough your viewfinder you see at the right hand side a meter that is with some camera's and he said if the pointer is in the middle of the scale then the camera thinks the exposer is ok.
Go figure after all those years, have to be honest that most of the times I only push the button and look at my shutter speed.
So there is yet much to be learned, have to say that with the big lens on it's difficult to expose and adjust the wheels because of the weight, with a small lens it's much easy'r
I will post one in due time..
Just finished watching a documentary about fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, and again a real eye opener a man with the love for black and white a great inspirator would love to have a go with something like that....
My gig with The Professional Bull Riders Association is coming up in a couple of weeks and one of the things that I'd like to capture is a 24 hour time-lapse as the convention center transitions from a hockey venue to a rodeo arena. I need to dig in and research the best way to handle it, a still camera or one of my Sony cinema cameras. Anyone here in the brain trust have a recommendation?
Inevitable, but still sad. In short order we’ve lost Wg Cdr Tom Neill, and Sqn Leader Geoffrey Wellum. Both fought in the Battle of Britain. The few are getting very few. I’m not sure, but I think there may be only two left. RIP.
I just read about that and was really intrigued, but then I read some technical reviews that kind of downplayed the advantage. This Mac had better be smoking on it's own, never thought I'd spend over six grand on a laptop!
Ah, yes I did notice that the claimed performance gain was very different between the 13 and the 15. Sure, 6K is a hill of cash for a portable, but doing this stuff on the go is bound to need all the machine power you can throw at it. Just remember that ten years ago (or less) rendering video needed an SG Unix workstation. Back in the day they started at 100K AFAIK. So in the here and now you continue to re-define what is possible for a one person production company. In that context, you're time limited not budget limited. Given your client profile I would hope that is all appreciated. Anyway, I for one love to see and hear of your adventures in applied technology. Power to your elbow.
