Any good filmmaking blogs?

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Snapper123

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Hey guys, I'm really trying to search around for some good, down-to-earth DSLR filmmaking blogs, but everywhere I turn, it seems the blogs tend to have left the tips and tricks far behind in the dust, and just have turned to more of a record of the projects the owner is doing and thousands of pictures of various sets and camera set ups. While I'm pretty beyond the basic education, already beyond guidelines like The Cinematographer Guide, I'm still struggling to learn any useful tricks that come in handy when dealing with the flaws of DSLR's, and just any blog that keeps dedicated to discussing things like great picture styles for skin tones, insider tricks on how to white balance properly, the pros and cons of moire filters, any cool updates for inexpensive but important equipment, exposure tricks, essential lighting voodoo, or just any of the often ignored but prime aspects of filmmaking that so many people seem to have questions about.

To be honest, I still enjoy Philip Bloom's blog because there's really just a great ratio of different topics, but I've pretty much scoured the blog left to right and I guess I'm looking for a blog that truly is just as down-to-home and dedicated to filmmaking techniques and tricks that one simply can't live without with DSLR/Low Budget filmmaking. Sounds vague but I'm having the hardest time finding a blog that's really dedicated to what I'm looking for, again, everything I come across tends to be too advanced/too advertisement based, or it's the old stuff like "Aperture means depth of field." Some of the questions I stated above are so hard to find answers to, and these "mid-range" questions seem to be the areas so many folk seem to be lacking in!
 
Many of my favorite filmmaking blogs probably don't have many mentions of gear, so i don't know if this is what you're looking for. But here are the ones i frequent.

http://workbookproject.com
http://independentfilmblog.com
http://springboardmedia.blogspot.com
http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com
http://trulyfreefilm.hopeforfilm.com
http://filmclosings.com
http://johnaugust.com
http://filmmakermagazine.com/news/category/news/
http://www.indiewire.com/blogs/#

and my editor (not too many editors blogging out there) has her's here... http://jamiecobb.com
 
The only thing about the blogs mentioned so far is I skimmed over them and I want to say that each of them seemed mainly focused on film festivals, upcoming projects, marketing, or, if something geared more toward filmmaking, the blogs seemed usually focused toward script writing. I'm really looking for any blogs that stay generally dedicated to camera tests, lens tests, lighting tips and tricks, the correct camera settings, mostly the stuff that pops up alot on this forum but is hard to collect. I've run across blogs and websites like this before, but I've sadly forgotten them all. Maybe more suggestions could help, or maybe I'm missing alot of what's already in the links above!
 
The first one I ever read was prolost.com. I love that place. Even though I may find that I could disagree with some points from Stu (keeping in mind that I'm nowhere near a position to do so based on experience and qualification), still, very well worded and encouraging stuff. I'd start with 'Fact,Moment, Light' that's a good read, but the posts there are broad and vary from very general and enlightening to incredibly technical. Still, I like how stu manages to look at the big picture through all the details. I do feel some kind of personal preference on his part to the canons as far as dslrs go, but really, probably the most important site I've read. I don't think this needs to be said, but cheers stu.
 
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