Filming Alaskan Glaciers With The Canon C100 I have vivid memories from my childhood of visiting the Portage Glacier. It was immense and it stretched all the way up the valley towards the cloud covered peaks above The cold wind wiped down the face of it and would snap at you face as you got closer. I can remember being both thrilled and …
Filming Alaskan Brown Bears with the Canon C100
Alaska Brown Bears from Pixel Bokeh on Vimeo. Bear sightings are fairly common all across Alaska, but seeing them in their natural habitat, just doing what they do, is harder to come by. The McNeil River plays host to the largest congregation of brown bears in Alaska annually, as they fatten themselves all summer long on salmon. We booked our …
5 Tips for Rocking A 48 Hour Film Project
There’s nothing like a tight deadline to sharpen your creative focus to laser precision. The 48hr Film Competition that provides just such a deadline. It is a world wide competition that runs in cites across the globe throughout the year. We recently competed here in Seattle with 60+ other teams. The kick off for these events is Friday night when …
Thoughts on 360 Degree Filmmaking
The pace of which technology is pushing filmmaking today is mind boggling. From higher resolutions and better ISO, to fully immersive viewing and VOD distribution. However I’m very curious to see what happens in regards to VR filmmaking. Traditional film making requires an entire set and a crew to operate things such as lights, cameras, sound equipment etc. With VR …
Review of the Directing Motion Tour with Vincent Laforet
This past Sunday, as I headed to the Hilton in downtown Seattle to attend the Directing Motion Tour with Vincent Laforet, I had some trepidation as to whether it was going to really be worth spending such a beautiful day inside a dimmed conference room. When I emerged 10 hours later, there was no doubt that I had made the right choice. Vincent had …
Zeiss – OLED Cinemizer Goggles
Eyes Of The Future – Cinemizer Goggles Zeiss, one of the world leaders in professional optics and lens systems has created the OLED Cinemizer Goggles. These goggles might make you look like you just walked off of a Star Trek set, but the forward looking concept and practical application open up some truly exciting possibilities for future film making. What …
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