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Interactive lighting tutorials from Lowel Lighting - many featuring Lowel’s excellent Rifa soft box.

Shooting a western, so the story goes, John Ford was concerned about the amount of time a cowboy took to leave the saloon, get on his horse, and ride off.
As there was no other coverage, Ford asked the editor to jumpcut the sequence: “Get him on the darn horse”.
The Editor complained, Ford countered: […]

Size does matter. It’s not about pixels it’s about control.

At Target for Halloween - more at strobist

Lily Allen thinks it’s an ash-tray - but I’m pretty sure that shiny object this photographer has bolted on top of his DSLR is a video camera.

In the days before digital tuners, tuning a violin or guitar was an imprecise science. Tuning the strings to one another is a skill anyone can learn - but tuning the E string precisely to E is not - at least in my experience. So if you have 3 guitars all properly tuned to […]

Clean the lens
Web video is often shot handheld with small cameras, no supplementary lighting or sound. This has unfortunate implications for folks who are sloppy about keeping their lenses clean.
1. Shooting handheld with a small cam and most of your shots have to be wide open to minimize camera movement.

mediastorm video: Katrina - 2 years later.
The first rule of composition, according to Brahms, is to master the art of counterpoint. Strictly speaking Brahm’s rules apply to musical composition, but this one transplants happily to the video realm. Combining two or more themes/perspectives in a single story can create a more compelling message.
This clip […]