For those who might have missed the news, Adobe Creative Suite 4 started shipping this past Wednesday. Users are already receiving their pre-orders. After Effects users looking to upgrade need to be mindful of two issues: As reported earlier, AE CS4 will not run on pre-Intel Macs. Not all CS3-compatible plug-ins are compatible with AE […]
Day: October 18, 2008
The HVX-200 Strikes Again
A while back I wrote an article about a spec shoot I did promoting an as-yet unfunded motion picture project. For various reasons the project wasn’t finished, so I took it upon myself to cut the footage into a short piece for my reel. I mixed in some footage from a light drawing test that […]
Shutter Sync Speed Hack
Back in the earliest years of the 21st century, when many of us were just switching to digital, any DSLR with an interline-CCD had a fantastic advantage. It would sync with flash at ANY shutter speed. The early Nikon D1, D1x and D1h, as well as the Canon 1D and a couple of others had […]
DIY Location Lighting Power
I don’t know about you, but I don’t try to create images like everyone else. To that end, I often end up with equipment needs to handle the type of work that I do, and sometimes that equipment either isn’t made, or isn’t made the way I’d like it, or is really expensive. I rent […]