How to Use a Drone Camera For Business
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Film
Editing a Photo for Star Wars Day
Editing a photo for Star Wars day is something I’ve done for years. Certainly, these are passion projects but it is also a good opportunity to learn new skills. You may be thinking, “Why a photo? Aren’t you all about Video?”. Here’s why I suggest anyone learning video production also edits photos. Why You Should …
Change My Mindset – A Short Inspirational Video
Change My Mindset – A Short Inspirational Video The key to overcoming fear is to change my mindset. I made a short motivational video telling the story of how I overcame my fears after nearly severing my thumb in a sheet metal accident. Right now, there is a lot of turmoil in the world and …
How to Use Video Marketing in 2024
How to Use Video Marketing in 2024 YES, it’s a new year and you may be wondering how to use video marketing in 2024 for your small business. Whether you’re marketing for a small local business or marketing for an online business, your video can be personalized. So you may be wondering how to use …
Flat Lay Drone Photography & Timelapse
Flat Lay Drone Photography & Timelapse This past Thursday, I woke up with an audacious goal in mind – Flat Lay Drone Photography. You see, I want a flat lay photograph and a timelapse for Instagram of a teardrop camp trailer build. But the scale is so much larger than most flat lay photography I …
Repair Corrupt DJI Video Files
Repair Corrupt DJI Video Files So I just got back from a family vacation to the beautiful Mt. Rainier National Park, only to find that some of my DJI drone stock video files are corrupted. Grrr…. Of course, the shots that I remember being the best are the ones that need a DJI File recovery …
The Upper Left: The Great PNW
The Upper Left: The Great PNW I was born in the Pacific Northwest. It is in my blood; the forests, raging waters, the best hikes, rivers, waterfalls, mountains, the beautiful adventures that can be done on hiking trips. This short was shot in one hour – a self imposed limitation. My son and I took …
Glidecam on Snowshoes
Glidecam on Snowshoes: An experience in Winter Film Making I am no stranger to using sports gear in film making. I’m a SCUBA diver who has shot commercially underwater in the company of a Netflix and IMAX director, award winning photographers, and others. I also enjoy winter sports. I enjoy my glidecam HD-2000. Thus was …
Mixing Motion Graphics and Real Life
I just finished working with Seattle-based band Gumshen. This project was a great blend of work between an animator and an editor. The video was shot by projecting animation through a digital projector, the only source of light, projected onto the band. Then we took animations and generated SFX and overlaid that on the footage. …
White House Renovations Impact the Film Industry
The White House announced that the long planned plant upgrades were completed today. As part of the press release, they published pictures of the refreshed facility. Of course a renovation like this doesn’t occur in a matter of months, there is a lot of planning that goes into updating the appearance of the building but …
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