Making Photography Simple
I recently returned from a trip to Haiti. I was traveling with representatives from Kyäni, an Idaho Falls company that sells nutrition and food supplements.
Kyäni’s nonprofit foundation, Kyäni Caring Hands, manufactures a nutrient-fortified instant potato product.
We spent a week distributing the product at Haitian orphanages and churches in an effort to alleviate hunger and scout potential humanitarian distribution lines. [Read more…]
I love the tools that are now available to us as filmmakers and photographers. What a wonderful time to be living and creating. Drones have opened up a whole new world enabling creators to reach new heights and capture images and video from the sky that just wasn’t feasible before. [Read more…]
DJI has been on a roll the last few years. I’ll admit, I was skeptical when I first saw their first consumer product, a white toy-looking quadcopter that could carry a GoPro. They’ve since grown into a serious player in the video production space with amazing tools that help video makers add production value that we only dreamed of a few short years ago.
Ironically, the same thing that made aerial photos and video affordable and accessible to the masses is the same thing that makes fully stabilized 4k video in the palm of your hand a reality – shrinking camera size.
Borrowing the same gimbal and camera tech from their flagship aerial camera platform the Inspire 1, the Osmo places that same stabilizing power in a comfortable to hold and easy to use handheld device. [Read more…]
It is an exciting time to be a photographer or filmmaker. Almost daily, new innovations and technology are being used to develop tools that make creative image-making cheaper, easier, and more fun. I recently got the chance to use a relatively new innovation, the MoVI M5 three axis camera gimbal. The people at Freefly Systems were kind enough to loan me a M5 to evaluate during a shoot in Nice, France. [Read more…]
My friend Mikey Borup from Cinema Spice has created an awesome After Effects tutorial for adding tracked text to drone footage and fixing the wide angle distortion caused by the GoPro Lens.
If you are interested in learning After Effects, Mikey also has a course on Udemy.
Here is a link to the Drone video course
https://www.udemy.com/aerial-photogra…
Get footage to practice with here.
Even with the onslaught of motion controlled timelapse videos that have become a popular trend in the last few years, there is something about watching ordinary traffic, growing plants, or stary landscapes sped up and matched to music that just never gets old. [Read more…]
DSLR cameras have become a popular choice for video shooters, and for good reason. They provide (in a relatively inexpensive package) a camera system with interchangeable lenses. Traditionally, dedicated video cameras have had built in lenses that focused at infinity. It was difficult or impossible to achieve a shallow depth of field. DLSRs allowed creators to shoot HD video that more closely matched the look of cinema, due to frame rate, shallow depth of field, and low light performance.
Here are some tips for capturing video on your DSLR camera. [Read more…]