Behind the Scenes at Bambu's "Books" music video

December 22, 2012  •  2 Comments
Bambu & Geo strut their stuff. On the Saturday before the Christmas holiday I had the honor of documenting behind the scenes video and photography for Bambu (formerly with Native Guns) and Geo (front man from Blue Scholars), two well known hip hop artists. The video was produced in collaboration with Kidheroes Productions and Xylophone Films, wi...
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The Hobbit - in Real 3D at 48 FPS

December 18, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
I just got out of a screening of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" of which I decided to watch in 3D at 48 frames per second. I'd like to share a quick review and my perspective of the movie shown at the twice than usual 48 FPS instead of the traditional 24 FPS. For those reading this that aren't familiar with the frame rates, up...
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ISO - How Sensitive Your Camera is to Light

December 18, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
Bay Bridge Night. Shot at ISO 6400 at f/4.0 with a shutter speed of 1/13th of second. Those of you that remember using actual film cameras will undoubtedly remember having to buy different speeds of film. You may remember such speeds as 100, 400, 800 and up. Generally, the way it works with film is that the lower the number, the less sensitive t...
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Shutter Priority Mode - I’ve Got the Need for Speed!

December 16, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, Ca Shot at 1/400th of a second at f/10. What is a shutter you may wonder, and why should I care how fast it goes? A very good question! Essentially a shutter as it relates to photography and your camera is a device that allows light to pass through a lens and strike a film negative or light sensor to crea...
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Aperture Priority Mode - Why use it?

December 13, 2012  •  5 Comments
Lots of folks ask me how they can go about taking better photos.They ask questions like, how can I prevent my photos from being blurry, or how do you make the background blurry, but not everything else? What I usually tell people is the first thing to do is to take their camera out of auto mode and to try out some of the more manual modes on the...
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