Last year, in addition to all my other video shenanigans, I became a bit obsessed with VR and utilizing it to tell a more immersive story about the underwater world of our precious Emerald Sea. There were some hold ups, though, technology is still kind of on the bleeding edge, both from a content production aspect and a consuming point… Read more →
This topside trade show video thing is continuing to be the gift that keeps on giving. Our successful work at New Mobility World in Frankfurt where I produced a number of videos for the Startup Zone brings truth to the old adage “work begets work”. Most recently I spent a week and a half with the team from House of… Read more →
Have you ever just wanted to throw your hands in the air and just say “no more comments on my FB posts”? Well, if that is the case, this nice gentleman has a quick way to allow this magical thing to occur until FB allows “no comment” in privacy. The only downside is that he makes you sign up with… Read more →
As I chase my ducks around trying to get things in line for upcoming fundraising campaign for Beneath the Looking Glass project, I was thinking of what kind of things I can give supporters at different award levels. When creating videos for the project I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to trace a screen grab for an ‘info’ page… Read more →
I scored a handful of Google Cardboards at the Seattle VR show a couple weeks ago. The first thing i did was take a set over to show my 84 year old dad 🙂 He was stunned and delighted… I was stunned by how quickly he took to them and also delighted and I asked him to write down his… Read more →
The Shearwater NERD. Seriously, this is the best thing to happen to dive computers and rebreathers …ever. Especially if you are photographer or videographer. I feel so strongly about this that I will go on record saying I think that they should be standard issue on all rebreathers. HUD’s or Heads up displays are the future of pretty much everything… Read more →
“you want 6 satellites before taking off, if you drop below that during flight your phantom will be in atti mode and a gust of wind could blow it away”. If you choose to fly in this situation, you need to practice in atti mode. Yeah, I read it just like i’m sure all the other pilots read. And… Read more →
Sound will make or break your video. Period. You can be a rockstar with a camera, insanely articulate, artistic and technically talented, but if your audio sucks, it will make your video pretty much unwatchable or at very least incredibly irritating and distract from the message. First off, I’ll precede this by saying there are many ways to skin the… Read more →
If you shoot a handful of different cameras you’ll find that most work generally the same. Sometimes I run into a outlier. I’ve been shooting the Canon C100 for a while now and generally will hit the auto white balance button with a white or grey panel and then dial it up and down a bit. Now and… Read more →
Today’s SOUND Advice: Pick up Pet Waste Creating a poop-free Puget Sound is more important than you might think. According to King County, there are more than 200 tons of pet waste deposited in the Puget Sound region every day, and water runoff flushes some of it into streams, rivers and Puget Sound. Dog poop contains things like E. coli,… Read more →