Here's a little story about adapting my work to fit the rules. About ten months ago I started to develop my demo reel, Hovering Lights. It started out as a found footage project, much like Cloverfield, Chronicle and such. Following that line, my original plan was to shoot it all 16:9, like a …
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August 2015
The Isco 16:9 Video Attachment is almost identical to an Iscorama 54, with a different stretch factor. It's super hard to find and yields excellent results with razor sharp images. Special thanks to the amazing Gabi Akashi for helping me with the world tests! USEFUL LINKS: Look for an Isco-Optic …
Yeah, it's true, I suffer from the Too Close Until It's Too Far syndrome, an uncommon photographic condition regarding longer focal lengths. While you're testing the lens on your own, at home, it seems to bring everything up close but as soon as you go out to the world you realize people are too …
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE! UPDATE - OCTOBER 2016: It took me roughly a year, but I delivered everything I promised in this post and a lot more unexpected content. I guess I should be in politics, right? I know, Sunday's passed and I haven't uploaded a video. I ran into some trouble and couldn't finish …
I spent the week thinking of what to write, every day shooting down my ideas, not considering anything worthy of sitting down and mashing the keyboard. Ok, there's that, there's work, there's Catan and there's May. But now I'm here and I'm writing. Yesterday I went for my daily seawall round when …
This video has the explanation of the question raised last week about a +0.25 diopter between the taking lens and the Panasonic LA7200. USEFUL LINKS: Watch the results test video Eyepatch Entertainment's video that speaks about the +0.25 hack Look for a Panasonic AG-LA7200 on eBay Look for a +0.25 …
Actually, it should be "The Things I Play". I'm always making adjustments or justifying the title in the first paragraph, it's getting a little annoying and I'll try doing it differently. Probably going with "MORE ACCURATE TITLES", what do you say? I tried to start writing today's post super early - …
I know it's past midnight and I don't care, this post is for yesterday - I mean today! oh, crap, I mean August 21st. It's one English post every day and I'm trying to stick with that. Yeah, I KNOW YESTERDAY'S WAS IN PORTUGUESE, damn! I don't make the rules, ok? Actually, I do, but I'm still trying …
O mundo acabou à meia noite de Sábado para domingo. Ok, isso ficou um pouco sensacionalista. O "Mundo" não "acabou". As leis da física que dizem respeito à eletricidade é que resolveram tirar férias. Nada mais produzia corrente. Nem turbinas, nem painéis solares, hélices, nem aquelas lanterninhas …
Way to go, Tito. Promise one post every day and go the subsequent two days with no posts at all. Way to go. In my defense, the past two days were CRAZY, action-packed, life-changing, superlative-adjective days. For starters, Monday was the final delivery for our reels. As you might've read in the …
They're playing our song. Do you think I'm ready yet?
Not sure how this is gonna go, but let's give it a shot. Here at VFS, once we reach Term 4 we're moved into the studio and each student has their own assigned slot and computer. If you're reading this you're probably a VFS student and know it all too well. Anyway, that's also the moment that we get …
Does sticking a +0.25 diopter between the taking lens and the Panasonic LA7200 actually fix all the Panasonic's issues? Let's test and see! Thanks to Rob Bannister, my partner at Creative Camera Rentals (creativecamerarentals.com), for getting me the +0.25, and Gearhouse Camera Rentals for the …
Starting today I'm gonna try a lot of different things to exercise my creativity. The key elements here are this blog, where I'll write at least one post every day, about random things, and my camera. Yesterday - one of the weirdest days ever since I came back to Vancouver - I went to Coquitlam in …
And it's finished! Many many thanks to Felipe Sampaio (Cogo), Diego Orge and my parents for letting me block the garden/backyard for almost an entire week! Also, thanks to mr. Panayiotis Verropoulos for the hint on the rain. Read more about this project in the previous post!
A little too much on the title, I know. We all have been through some harsh pathways in our time, that one which you got sick, or exhausted, or that time when everything went wrong, even what was dead right. But, if you are the kind of person that creates things - also known as artist, but not …
Going with one of the most common anamorphic adapters for beginners, the Panasonic LA7200 gives great performance at wide angles, but struggles under a lot of circumstances. Many thanks to mrs. Gabi Akashi for helping me out in the World Tests! USEFUL LINKS: Look for a Panasonic AG-LA7200 on eBay …
Como essas são as duas últimas semanas de VFS, resolvi que ia dar um gás master no reel, finalmente me animei pra isso, e terminar - possivelmente até amanhã. Esse pique, porém, ia acabar afetando a produtividade dos vídeos das anamórficas, que agora, oficialmente, são semanais, publicados todos os …
Tava anteontem na minha volta noturna pelo Stanley Park, pela primeira vez consegui completar tudo sem usar as mãos (exceto em UMA curva, que é impossível, por enquanto), usando as mãos para dar mais força pras pernas toda vez que enfrentava uma subida. Nessa brincadeira, tô começando a perceber que …
For this episode I picked a lens which has very little information online, and performs incredibly well among its competitors. The Century WS-13 is like a small Century Optics mixed with a Panasonic LA7200 on steroids and a focus ring. USEFUL LINKS: Look for a Century Optics WS-13 on eBay Look for …