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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 …
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. …
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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Our friend Nick Lambert of the band Falling Up and Northern Abbey has released a new single entitled Glimpses. It is a project that was also produced by Jessy Ribordy, also of Falling Up. Buy the new single here: https://northernabbey.bandcamp.com/track/glimpses Nick, Jessy, and I have worked together to soundtrack my feature length documentary “Historic Camping and Teardrop Trailers”. …