November 5, 2008

Octobox and small flashes

David Tejada just put online a new video of him on assignment. I particularly love his use of three speedligth flashes with the huge octobox.



September 4, 2008

Porn for photographer

Vincent Laforest, in a short video, shows us the almost 100 remote cameras at the final of the 100m at the last summer Olympic games.



August 3, 2008

Quebec’s athletes for the 2008 Olympics

Olivier Jean presents in a neat video his photos of the Quebec athletes that will take part in the 2008 Olympics that was recently published in a special section in the Journal de Montreal and Journal de Quebec. And with cool behind the scenes, too!



March 5, 2008

Less than two seconds to get the job done

For this photo of Conrad Black on his way to the prison, Nathan Denette had less than 2 seconds to bring back a usable picture. See how it happened in a Canadian Press video.



January 30, 2008

On location with two small flashes

Bert gives us another neat video of him shooting on location with two small flashes.



November 1, 2007

Learning by looking how others do

Location shoot by Corporate photographer David Tejada. Photographing drilling rigs on the Western slope on Colorado



October 14, 2007

Bravia Stop-motion commercial

After the “Balls” commercial:

And the “paint” commercial:

Bravia amazes us again with the “Play-Do” commercial. The fun part for us is that it is actualy a stop-motion movie. See how they did it on the Bravia website (click Play-do ad for the movie, and then “watch the making of”)



August 27, 2007

3 cameras to get 30 frames/second: the setup

A short video that shows the setup used to get the 30 frames per second “video” of Barry Bound



August 17, 2007

Chase Jarvis TECH: POV Photography

Another cool video by Chase Jarbis, TECH: POV Photography

To buy list: Super clamp, magic arm.

God, photography is a never ending investment job!



July 3, 2007

Lucha libre

A few months ago Sports Illustrated staff photographer Peter Read Miller and picture editor Jimmy Colton were having a discussion when Colton asked Miller if he would be interested in heading to Mexico City for a week to photograph Mexican wrestlers, or lucha libres.

Along with good friend and assistant Max Morse, Peter headed to Mexico’s capital with 10 cases of gear and high hopes. They both felt that this was one of the interesting shoots they had been on and decided it would be exciting to try and turn the camera on themselves to document the trip. Armed only with a Canon Powershot SD800 (point-and-shoot) camera and a pack of SD cards, Morse, using Final Cut Pro, came back with enough footage to piece together a 9-minute web documentary tracking the pair on their journey south of the border.

As an ex wrestling photographer, I really liked this video!