Example Glidetrack HDSLR Setup

May 15, 2012

If you’re just starting our shooting HDSLR video, or you have a lightweight camcorder that you want to get more serious with, this setup video from the guys at Glidetrack is a useful starting point. It shows a typical configuration that’s lightweight, easy to set up and will quickly become instinctive to use. My own [...]

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So You Think Someone’s Ripping Off Your Work? Find Out….

May 10, 2012

The internet is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us all a great resource of information, a lot of it for free. It’s a great way to democratise things and level the playing field. However, sometimes there’s a problem with the ‘Free’ part of it. A great many people, so innocently, [...]

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Nearly One Million Later….

May 9, 2012

It’s a blown Elinchrom flash tube. Big deal, I here you say. Well actually, it is quite a big deal. I called by the Leeds branch of The Flash Centre today and Russ had this thing lying on his desk. I like the guys at The Flash Centre. Apart from being very knowledgeable blokes, with [...]

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Top Gear Photographer Nominated for Award

May 1, 2012

Readers of Top Gear Magazine will be familiar with the work of car photographer Justin Leighton. It’s just been announced that a short film he created with director Owen Trevor last year has been nominated for an award. Shot in one night, it’s a 30 second short promoting Mercedes Benz. Mercedes _ SL Black from [...]

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A Beginners Guide To Time Lapse

April 28, 2012

I‘ve always been a time lapse fan, but never really got around to shooting any and to be honest, there’s no good reason why not! However, inspired by some of the stunning time lapse work by Tom over at Timescapes, I decided to borrow an intervalometer from the guys at The Flash Centre. Philip Bloom’s [...]

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Sound Cloud – The Flickr of Noise

April 19, 2012

Corny headline? I know, couldn’t resist it, sorry. But just wanted to give the heads up on Sound Cloud, a service for sharing sounds. There are various services like this out there, Sound Cloud isn’t unique. However, what I like about them are their creator-freindly user terms – no rights grabs of your content. Plus [...]

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Lexus GS Advert – The Making Of

April 17, 2012

This is a superb video showcasing the creative work of Frankfurt based Barbecue Design on the new Lexus GS advertising. It shows just how advanced modern CGI retouching is today and how you don’t need a stunning location, just a test track, to shoot a stunning car TV advert. Look as close as you like, [...]

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NAB Show Blog – 4K is the new Black….

April 16, 2012

The NAB Show in Las Vegas is, as ever, the big place for camera and grip manufacturers to announce their latest creations and must-have gadgets and this year is the year that 4K motion cpature becomes available to everyone… Well, not quite everyone, but for sure, cameras are beiong announced everywhere that offer 4K capture. [...]

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Canon EOS 1D-C and EOS C-500 Roundup

April 16, 2012

No big shocks that Canon have publicly announced it’s opening shot in the 4K video wars. Two new models, the 1D-C based upon the EOS1D-X body and the C-500 based upon it’s new cinema camera chassis. You’ll be able to read pretty much everywhere about the new cameras, with Canon evangelists having experience of pre-production [...]

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The Camera Phone Epidemic

April 16, 2012

OK, just thinking aloud here. Sitting with an ice cold glass of white Chenin Blanc and idly browsing National Geographic magazine, I came across an interesting statistic about digital cameras in mobile phones. It seems that in 2011, 37% of all digital images taken by Americans were by camera phone. The prediction is 50% by [...]

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