Fifteen Seconds #1, #2, #3, #4
Archive for June, 2010
Fifteen Seconds #5
Posted in Every Picture Tells a Story, Exuberance is Beauty, Fifteen Seconds on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Refining the Nomenclature: HDSLR
Posted in 5D Mark II, DSLR, Theory and Practice on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the terrific Jared Abrams at Cinema 5D. “This has been driving me crazy for quite some time. I post as often as I can on the news section here at Cinema5D. I try to get the word out on some of the happenings in the HDSLR world. I have tried to go with the flow [...]
White Nights
Posted in Cross Cultural, Exuberance is Beauty, Theory and Practice on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I spent a couple of sleepless nights in a rainy, fogbound Paris half a lifetime ago. It felt a little like this. Video by Arev Manoukian.
Fifteen Seconds #2
Posted in Every Picture Tells a Story, Fifteen Seconds, Theory and Practice on June 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Fifteen Seconds #1
The Sweet Spot
Posted in DSLR, Exuberance is Beauty, Theory and Practice on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the Canon 7D, Jeff Larson and Cutlets at their combined exuberant best – shooting, story, cutting and color. Jeff has been in the sweet spot for about the last five weeks with his picture profile, frame rate, shutter speed and working depth of field. Look for a side by side comparison between our [...]
Cross and Double Cross
Posted in Every Picture Tells a Story, Exuberance is Beauty, Theory and Practice on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From David Bordwell’s marvelous ‘Observations on Film Art‘: “In some books and some web entries (most recently, here and here and here and here), I’ve tried to trace the rich tradition of ensemble staging. From almost the start of cinema, filmmakers have explored creative ways of moving actors around the set, aiming at both engaging storytelling and pictorial impact. [...]
Fifteen Seconds #1
Posted in Every Picture Tells a Story, Fifteen Seconds, Theory and Practice on June 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I had the good fortune as a fifth and sixth grader to sit at the knee of a great American writer, Cynthia Voigt, who taught at the Key School in Annapolis through the long decade of the seventies in our slowly receding last century. Mrs. Voigt (that’s who she was to us then), has gone on [...]
