Modern Ruin: White Hole ~ Modern Ruin: Black Hole
I’ve never before pledged any money on a Kickstarter project, but this is just too amazing:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1051873420/modern-ruin-white-hole
Modern Ruin: Black Hole is the first half of the project, check this out:
I had another great weekend shooting on the Good Time Girls Film that I mentioned here. We started out doing some pick-up shots of some local color, here a banjo player:
The Good Time Girls film is a project my good friend Dan Hammill is directing. It is a documentary about two women, Sara and Marissa, and their “adventures in history, business and life.” But what it is really about is the women’s hilarious, yet intelligent, take on the tawdry history of the seaport city of Bellingham, Washington. All the while dressed in period piece corsets, bustles, and bits of clothing I’m not even remotely familiar with. Sin and Gin, indeed!
I’ve always been tempted to seriously delve into timelapse photography (Here is a wonderful example: Timelapse: Bevan Percivalâs Stunning Lenticular Cloud Capture), but it has always been put on the back burner for one reason or another. Well, that’s changing. Part of that came about because I installed one of the greatest hacks and best pieces of software (firmware?) engineering into my Canon 5D MkII: the Magic Lantern Canon EOS Camera Tool. The people that did that hack (and I use that term with the most respect) made the camera, in my mind, about 100x more useful. Just a few of the tweaks I use:
I had written a post back on December 24th, 2012, titled Mating Really Right Stuff And Nodal Ninja Panoramic about my panoramic head assembled from Really Right Stuff and Nodal Ninja gear. The post has been one of the most visited on my entire blog, but I had gotten several good questions that I thought a video might explain better.Â
So, here’s the video with the astoundingly creative name of Mating Really Right Stuff And Nodal Ninja Panoramic Gear:
This is a photograph of a dancer I took during a production of The Shed in Red Hook back in 2007. Truly a great example of modern dance in Brooklyn. I don’t usually post images that are already in one of my online galleries; this one is in the Film | Dance gallery here. However, I was testing a new Word Press plug-in, and needed an image to test with and this one popped up in a search. I looked at it anew and am still absolutely blown away by the tonality.
Yeah, looks can be deceiving. Especially when his looks are around 1200 lbs., he has an incredible rack of horns, he can move in water and on land, and he has his head lowered like he’s going to charge.
I’ve always loved lenticular clouds, they have always reminded me of a stack of lens elements, with some of the elements decentered… (ahem). That makes sense as the word lenticular means lens-like and derives (as does the word lens) from lentil.
If you would like to check out a still image from Bevan Percival’s shoot, take a look at UFO Shaped Lenticular Cloud and Volcanic Projectile, Rangipo Desert, Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand on Flickr. Gorgeous work, and I think the dolly shot helps giving the video a nice (but maybe too short) perspective change.
I’m considering the addition of a small camera slider both for video and timelapse shots like the above. I’m leaning towards the Edelkrone SliderPlus+. As a past product designer, I think their design is brilliant. It is really the first new advance in camera sliders in a long time. I think I’ll do a review of it when it arrives.
I recently was contacted about selling one of my prints, a black and white panorama of an old wood mill incinerator in Eastern Oregon (Download a free .pdf of this panorama here). That got me thinking about panoramic image print formats:
A good (or should I say interesting) way to learn about a country’s people is by taking the various forms of transportation the locals use. For longer trips in Laos, that form is the bus. Here are six essential things you should consider taking to make bus travel in Laos enjoyable bearable:
