Recent content by Pickthorne

With my GH2 just bought off the marketplace here: Asahi Takumar 135mm f3.5 at f11. I was about 20 feet away and shot at 1/2 second exposure time to get the blurred cars in the background. And the Asahi Takumar 50mm for these two. These lenses are fun to use (wow is that an iris...

So I type 54°59'21" N, 06°36'52" W into google earth and it turns out Walter drove to Ireland. He wound up just outside a little hamlet called....

Affirmative.

Rob Ford 0 ENG lens 1

Dear Ironpony Dear Ironpony Dear Ironpony, As usual you give no information on anything. No treatment, no names, no reel, no screen shots, no subject, no locations, no styles. You have been accused of tom-trollery. Perhaps that's what your play is, though I can't imagine why. Or you could...

Today's mind#uck brought to you by Barry Green...fascinating.

Keyed out the skintones after a gamma curve adjustment and brought up their saturation a bit, then added a bit of glow:

So I'm watching the election results from Quebec and the CBC was rolling with some hot looking graphics for the results as the come in (sorry I tried to get a grab, but no luck). They seem to update live and have some fairly complex builds, with many different types of pie charts, graphs etc...

Yay all better now. Will still be full of noise though. But hey, I was bored while a render chunks away.

I don't stream often, but when I do, I use Ustream. Also using something like Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder allows more control and monitoring than just the web-based interface. I'm sure all the streaming services offer this possibility, though I haven't checked. Craig

I will be making a presentation on the state of flux the video world is in, and how it compares to other "democratizations" that have harassed various crafts. Although mostly for fun and practice it will be a (kind of) part of a music festival here in Toronto, NXNE so I want to rock it. I have...

So I have this web promo in which the client is keen on motion-tracked text (which I find to be a bit hack at this point...ah well it was pitched nearly 2 years ago when that was hot), and I am struggling with how bland it looks. I've tried different blend modes to sell the inclusion of the...

This: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F6X4OC/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0030B5UV0&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0FTXJF5JH96SBACY87NE

OK my background is in theatre and live events. Since I've made the transition to one-man-band video a few years back, and one thing is nagging me... Why is it the norm to gel up a fixture by clipping your colour to the barn doors? I understand if the fixture is a tota of kino, and there is no...