Monthly Archives: March 2010

HUNTER VALENTINE – Roving Camera

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IN THE LIFE has a new video online, profiling the queer indy band Hunter Valentine.  I shot the interview featured in the piece, which was produced by my good friend and co-worker Amber, and cut by Andrew Lee.

I was nervous filming the three of them with just one camera, and roving handheld like I did. There’s always the risk that you’ll miss a key moment by focusing on the wrong person at the wrong time.  But I’m very happy with the results, and I think fans of the band will enjoy this quick, off the cuff portrait.

PHOTO OF THE DAY – Subway Structures

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In a bit of a break from tradition, instead of one photo today, I give you a whole set!  Here are the results from spending a few minutes turning my attention to the environment around me in the NYC subway system and seeing what I could shoot with my little Palm Pre.  The color/cropping work was done quickly in Photoshop.

CAPTURE 2020 – Part “the end.”

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It would seem that life has abridged my blogging, and my prior-promised essays concerning image capture will have to be consolidated.  Thus, I present my thoughts concerning the next 10 years in video, camera design, social network integration, and the like.  May you find herein something worth considering.

For the indy filmmaker, shooting HD video was prohibitively expensive 5 years ago.  Film students like myself were salivating over developments like the Viper Filmstream, Sony F-900, and Panasonic Varicam, digging through articles about color-space and frame rates.

The heads of a thousand film students collectively exploded when RED entered the scene in 2006.  The child of Oakley (yes, the sunglasses) founder Jim Jannard, Red Digital Cinema Camera Company set out to re-write the rules on what an image capture device could do or be.  The release of RED ONE in 2007 was only the beginning of a nearly impossibly ambitious string of announcements, which aimed to leapfrog all competition. Continue reading →