I picked a nice time to bug out of Buffalo and visit my favorite place, driving out to Arizona and Utah a few weeks ago to shoot some demo and stock footage with the Red One MX digital cinema camera system.
The roads were rough but the skies were amazing and as soon as I get to grading the footage, I think I’ll want to move to Prescott, Arizona, my new favorite town.
This fine little national commercial produced for Google by Good Corps which I served on as B camera operator went live today and was chosen as “Creativity Pick of The Day” by Advertising Age. DP Adam Richards brought me in to back him up with a 2nd camera and I have to say, despite a 3 hour plus hand held shot in the bakery (ouch), it’s great to see the work put together in such fine fashion.
I just recently completed this piece for the The Martin House Restoration Corporation who will be using it in their efforts to complete restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex.
The restoration has been many years in the making and it was exciting to visit the complex with the Red One and help in the effort.
I spent the day yesterday at the amazing Darwin Martin House shooting footage with the Red One digital cinema camera system for a little video piece that will be used in raising funds to complete restoration there.
World renowned photographer Biff Henrich (below left) headed up the project and it was great to see the progress made in restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece here in Buffalo.
While working with Washington Square Films recently at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, NY, it became apparent that capturing footage of the house (without lighting it) would be difficult since even with their full house lighting, it was still too dark.
I suggested that I shoot timelapse, which is a series of still images strung together to form a video sequence, and was given the go ahead to try it out.
Not being one to settle for the easiest option, I decided to try a moving camera timelapse with my “slider” (a mini camera dolly) to take the subsequent footage to the next level.
I spent some time recently traveling around the Eastern end of New York State to some places I’d never been before (and to a few places I have been to), shooting interviews and portraits for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
The Columbia University campus in Manhattan was pretty impressive, as was the amazing TEC-SMART Facility of the Hudson Valley Community College.
I have to say – I really like the way the future looks.
I had the good fortune recently of serving as cinematographer for the esteemed Director, Paul Souter for a bit of work for Independent Health using the Canon 5DMKII HD camera system.
Paul shot stills using the same lighting and set we rolled on for online videos being produced for the HMO.
