Photographing the Mexican celebration Days of the Dead

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Knowing when and where to travel to find the most exciting imagery unfold in front of your camera is the first step toward cultural photojournalism. Not just great scenes, but real people doing real things are what we all want to experience and capture. Life and emotion are simply hard to get a handle on, […]

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Image Quality and the Contemporary Cine Lens

The proliferation of digital cinema cameras over the past half-decade has seen an accompanying expansion in new cine lens designs and Canon has become an increasingly active player in this exciting new arena by developing nine new cine lens models in just the past year alone. The February 6th Canon Live Learning Event, titled Image […]

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Will CTRL+Console be an editing console that editors actually use?

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This is a very cool looking Kickstarter campaign that popped up a few days ago. CTRL+Console is an iOS-based non-linear editing controller that looks to be built from the ground up specifically for the task of video editing. The interface looks quite futuristic and well designed but unfortunately its downfall might be the iPad itself. […]

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Book Review – Clint Eastwood: Master Filmmaker at Work

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When you think of Clint Eastwood, do you think of him as Dirty Harry, squinting and talking through his teeth? Or as the man who addressed a chair at the recent RNC? Or as the filmmaker who has a reputation for being able to make quality and efficient major motion pictures? Of course that all […]

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Hands-on Review: GoPro Hero3 (part 2)

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This is the second part of my hands-on review of the new GoPro Hero3 camera, where I’ve managed a series of side-by-side tests with the Hero2 camera in various scenarios – from multiple frame rates, resolutions and lighting conditions, in both video/still shots, raw and processed with the CineForm Studio software. If you haven’t already […]

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