Monday
Jun212010
Twilight 'World Cup' Elcipse Vuvuzela Saga
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 4:04PM Twilight 'World Cup' Elcipse Vuvuzela Saga
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 4:04PM Friday
Mar192010
Don't hate the video hate the videographer
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 4:23PM title: One last thing...
I'm not knocking the new breed of video camera. I think they're incredible. I can't afford them. If you can afford a better tool and it will do the job use it. Buy it. I probably don't have to tell you this but any lens stopped down will give you a greater depth of field. Deep focus photography can look amazing too. Citizen Kane.. anyone? Bueller...Bueller...
Those web clips are predominantly experimental and artsy. We're just pushing these little cameras to see what they can do. We can always throttle back by closing up the iris. Anyway.. I just appreciate the fact that these new tools are available and afforable.
Hell Phillip Bloom practically has his own genre of film like von trier and his Dogme95. Philips would be no dialogue, cropped to fake 2:35, every shot has a rack focus or shallow dof, trance chill spiritual music, must use latest gadgetry track slider, and must be served on Vimeo. LOL. I'm more of a dialogue screenplay guy anyway. But I love those little videos Phillip is doing. I thought of a perfect outlet for them. All of those plasmas at restaurants that show network TV should instead have those Bloomers on. I think they are very artistic but I wouldn't want to watch a feature movie like that. No way!
Friday
Mar192010
Stoking the fire...or just blowing gently?
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 2:29PM Stoking the fire...or just blowing gently?
by Justin Goudreau on Mar 19, 2010
I think you should use what you want. My uncles RCA camera that plugged into a giant VHS machine got sharp pictures and were great for Christmas in the 80's but no one ever got excited about the 'video look'.
I use to run around with my non-reflex bolex with my parallax view-finder just hoping I'm framed right with the thickest winter jacket wrapped around the camera to blimp the wind-up motor while my buddy recorded double system on a cassette recorder and radio-shack mic.
Projected on a screen it looked amazing (to me). Out of focus, shakey, grainy, dreamy frame rates. This made me feel different about moving pictures. These DSLRs and letus adapters put that feeling back in our hands after seeing perfectly focused 30 fps TV for years.
Let us artists dream and you guys that are happy with perfectly focused from here to Bolivia images keep shooting for espn and fox news.
Maybe it's just a fad, maybe just a new tool. Either way we all benefit from learning getting back to the basics Fstop, iso, and shutter speed. Using filters on lenses not the ones on the little wheel built into your camera.
It's certianly easier to pick up an HV 20 to shoot your kids playing and maintain focus while chasing them around. And it's certainly easier shooting a NFL pro quarterback thow a pass and see the tackles in focus from all angles. These tools exist. We already know about them.
But now us little guys are able to play with lenses that do things that don't come off camera trucks or out of a rental house. We can have them in our bag and make art.
I use to run around with my non-reflex bolex with my parallax view-finder just hoping I'm framed right with the thickest winter jacket wrapped around the camera to blimp the wind-up motor while my buddy recorded double system on a cassette recorder and radio-shack mic.
Projected on a screen it looked amazing (to me). Out of focus, shakey, grainy, dreamy frame rates. This made me feel different about moving pictures. These DSLRs and letus adapters put that feeling back in our hands after seeing perfectly focused 30 fps TV for years.
Let us artists dream and you guys that are happy with perfectly focused from here to Bolivia images keep shooting for espn and fox news.
Maybe it's just a fad, maybe just a new tool. Either way we all benefit from learning getting back to the basics Fstop, iso, and shutter speed. Using filters on lenses not the ones on the little wheel built into your camera.
It's certianly easier to pick up an HV 20 to shoot your kids playing and maintain focus while chasing them around. And it's certainly easier shooting a NFL pro quarterback thow a pass and see the tackles in focus from all angles. These tools exist. We already know about them.
But now us little guys are able to play with lenses that do things that don't come off camera trucks or out of a rental house. We can have them in our bag and make art.
Friday
Mar122010
