Nikon recently released the D90 which is the first in its own category. Its a camera that takes amazing still photos and has the ability to shoot real HD video footage.
Watch the video that the New York Times released about the camera and what it can do here: New Photo Revolution
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After having watched that video I’m really excited to see what other cometitors such as Canon and Sony come out with. This is really going back to the origins of motion picture photography. Lumiere brothers simply made their camera take 16 pictures every second. I can’t wait till the day they have 50 megapixel (theortical size of 35mm film) cameras shooting at a solid 120+ frames per second.
I’m leaving for Houston, TX tomorrow on a project. It’ll be nice to experience some “Hosnatality”
Below is a list of topics I’ll be blogging about in the near future. I also want to use this opportunity to ask YOU what topics YOU want ME to blog about here. Post it in the comments and lay it out!
Topics to keep your eyes out for in the future:
Follow up post w/ video on my use experience with the Canon FS100
What makes for awesome cheap lighting
Topics I’m contemplating blogging about:
My research and study on “music”
Negotiating your “worth” when getting contracts for video work
Production ethics
So go ahead and let me know what you think I should blog about in the future.
For the upcoming AlMaghrib seminar in New York and in London, UK…I present to you all the Torch Bearers Trailer!
This video was done mostly in Adobe After Effects. Many thanks to Andrew Cramer over a VideoCopilot.net for his tutorials and products on learning Adobe After Effects. This was my seconds project involved with After Effects and I must say that I’m beginning to really like the program. The potential is beyond what I can see. So many amazing things when it comes to visual effects. I’m looking forward to learning more of this program to churn out material that complements that work I do on the editing side.
One of the biggest challenges with this project simply getting over my creative block. All my past AlMaghrib I’ve had some creative elements to work off of. Either some sort of presentation or design work to build off of and “translate” to screen. With this trailer all I really had was the club cards and the notes I was forwarded by HQ. I spent a good portion of a week simply going though the material hoping to find something of use.
What really came through for me in the end were the tutorial DVDs from Andrew Kramer’s VideoCopilot.net. I must admit, although a lot of the work was done for me in the template setups on the DVD, going in and modifying those templates in a program I’m not familair with takes a hell of a lot of time getting used to.
The approach to learning I take (and recommend to others) is that of the child. A child learns by copying those around themselves. Over time what happens is that the child has picked up a number of skills via copycat and due to the creativity of the child he/she is able to mix and match to the point where they’re able to do some impressive stuff.
With After Effects I’ve got quite a distance to go, but I can’t wait till I get really give a project that million dollar look!
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