Good friends of mine and band Colour My Queen got me on board to do a run and gun music video for their song “Grin and Forebear It”. The entire thing was shot on a Canon T2i with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens and a Vari ND.
Night before prep
Some issues I ran into when shooting “When we are together” was stabilization of the camera and I wanted that hand held look for this project as well, but I still haven’t settled on a rig to build for myself. My solution to this problem was to take a cheap tripod, shorten the legs, and take two of them and positioning them around my hip bones. Along with a Z-finder and two hands on the camera this allowed me to have 5 points of contact to stabilize my footage just enough to be clean yet still hand held feel.
Video Details:
Colour My Queen – Grin and Forebear It
CMQ is:
Kyle Galloway
Brandon Morgan
Ian Hayes
Directed by Phil Hoyt
PA: Tara Haime
PA: Nick Mrosko
I also was second camera on a Jason Jendre music video that I hope goes well for him. Some images from the music video and a cell phone snap of Jasons shoot are below.
Canon released a firmware update for the Canon T2i and 550D which fixes “a phenomenon in which the set aperture moves unexpectedly when shooting movies in manual exposure mode using some Canon lenses (such as macro lenses).” It is always a good idea to keep your camera up to date so I recommend to all owners to update.
Over the past weekend I took the two hundred some mile trip up to Buffalo, New York to meet up with some DSLR enthusiasts and Guru Philip Bloom. We all met at Duff’s Famous Wings in Depew, New York last Sunday to enjoy some buffalo wings, talk, and share DSLR info. It still amazes me that some 20 strangers can get together and have lunch and get along really well. Highlights of the whole thing would have to be watching Rob taste a death wing and almost cry, Philip actually eating a death wing, and me getting death wing sauce in my eye and needing Philip to pour water in my eye to help save it. I owe you one Philip.
Sorry for not updating on my usual Monday mornings. Last week was finals week and this is my first week on break so I needed a little relax time. But I’m back!
More and more DSLR manufactures are entering the viewfinder race and in my observation Zacuto really sets the standard for a DSLR Viewfinder which is why I decided to go with the Z-Finder. This is not to say that other manufactures are making lesser products. Like in my previous post comparing the Z-Finder to the Hawk, Letus has really put there best foot forward in there variation of a Viewfinder. But we seem to have a few other contenders that I didn’t touch base on in my original post.
Genus, manufacture of some great budget matte boxes and other camera accessories, has come out with their own Viewfinder. The Genus Loupe(G-LV) has a 2.5x magnification and fits 3-inch screens, made from hard plastic, and is rumored to cost around $125-$150. I have emailed the company asking for more details, but that is all I could dig up for now. If I get a response I will be sure to update this post. Click here for more information on the G-LV
It doesn’t take long after a new popular technology comes out for a few knock offs to hit the shelves and DSLR supports are no exceptions. While browsing around I came across two Zacuto rig knock-offs that might rival the real thing and felt compelled to share.
What I am doing in this post is showing the options that I have gathered through my quest to find a ND Filter. I am all about finding the cost effective solution to my HDSLR needs and I figure if they are helping me out maybe they can be of use to other. So here are the three that I have found.
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