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A few days ago I was doing a shoot at Portland Bill (one of my favourite locations) with model Sally Miller.  I had help from with lighting, video, and general piss taking from Karl (hairy biker), Paul, Carla (hairy bikers friend).

Photos from the shoot will be coming soon, but for now, please enjoy this video.

It was a fun shoot.  Thank you to everyone.

Special thanks go to Cosmic Picnic for letting me use one of their rather cool tunes.

He doesn’t much like it, but it has to be done.

Thanks to @ecokitchens for the posh doggy shampoo!

My third year as official photographer at Southern Lights, so this film is just for fun.   I took a few short clips and I’ve made a little film with them.

I hate video editing, and I’m a bit rubbish out of it.  I’m sure someone out there could take my source video and actually make something really quite watch-able out of it.  This however, is the best I can do.

The sound came via recording the drumming workshop.  Gotta love the sound of the drumming workshop!

Technical Info – Filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II, Sound recorded on a Zoom H4N Recorder with a funky fire red Redhead Windscreen.

I should probably add to the title “Behind the scenes of a bloody freezing cold business portrait photoshoot“.

To see some photos from the shoot – click here.

I didn’t put much thought, effort, or time into this very quick video from my photoshoot at the weekend with IFBB Figure athlete Larissa Reis.

It’s kinda boring, but figured I’d share it anyway.

Words really aren’t needed, but as a brief introduction – this is a video blog filmed during my first outdoors fitness photoshoot of 2010.  Location was the stunning Portland Bill in Dorset.  The model was the wonderful Cat.   To see some of the photos from the shoot…  click….       here!

I was inspired after watching Doctor Who Confidential the other day.  They were explaining how an image sequence was filmed using a still camera, but edited together to form part of the ‘movie’.

Basically it involves taking a photo, moving slightly, taking another and so on.  It’s kind of like animation but with real life subjects.

So while I was shooting with the lovely Cat the other day at Portland Bill I decided to give it a try.  It’s a technique I’ll be returning to as I think it has some interesting potential.

Below are the three attempts we made.  Not perfect, but for a first try I’m rather pleased. Next time I’ll be trying it without the sheer drop behind me. Taking photos while trying to look into the view finder with one eye and trying not to fall over a cliff with the other is not exactly what you’d call easy.

So here we have it, just a short 24 hours after the first we have the second instalment of my video blog.  This one is a little different as I’ve included my subjects – Mr and Mrs Smith and their 4 and 9 year old daughters.

Enjoy.

PS.  Look up to see the photos from the shoot.

So, my first ever properly put together movie.

It’s the first time I’ve gone out with my Canon 5D Mark II with the sole purpose of putting together a short film from the footage.  My subject was the celebrations in the Mayflower Park, Southampton for the naming of the P&O boat Azura.  As I couldn’t get near the boat I was concentrating on the goings on at the park and the firework finale.

I shot everything except the fireworks hand held and I know I’d have been better off using a tripod.  I’m quite pleased with the results, and very pleased with the amazing quality from the 5D.  The quality of this little camera is so good even the professionals are starting to use it.  The season finale to House has apparently been filmed exclusively with the 5D.  Interesting times indeed.

If there are any proper film makers reading this, I’d quite like to pick your brains.  I feel my editing is kinda “meh”…  “so so…” at best.  I’d like to improve it, but I really don’t know how.

Update:  Yes I’m aware the music is kinda awful.  It’s all I have.  If anyone would like to donate me 3 minutes of music that would work for this film it would be muchly appreciated.

So here we are, my first ever video blog.

I videoed it yesterday while photographing and filming the celebrations going on in Southampton’s Mayflower Park for the naming of the new P&O boat the Azura.

If I’ve learned one thing from doing this blog, and that is that I come across as a seriously grumpy bugger.  Truth is I was actually really rather happy yesterday evening.  I was doing what I love.  Trouble is it doesn’t show on my face.  Note to self – must try and appear more cheerful.

The real film from the evening will be post next – look up….