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Small Things

So, at lunchtime today I spent a couple of hours in our kitchen giving my newly acquired Nikkor macro lens a try out and this video is the result. To get the white background I simply taped a piece of A4 photo paper between our kitchen table and the wall...

Kites

Filmed at Hunstanton beach on the north Norfolk coast on the 15th November 2008. Once again I only took my camera and glidetrack which I’m finding is a great way of filming. I find myself using the glidetrack as more of a mobile filming platform than anything, I can sit...

At the beach

Just got back from a little trip with the camera to Hunstanton beach on the North Norfolk coast. Hunstanton is very popular with wind and kite surfers and their sails / kites made fantastic subjects to film. I only shot around 10 minutes of footage but I’ll turn that into...

Below Heavy Skies

Some overcranking shots using the S&Q function on the EX1.

Playdoh

This was a fun experiment trying out the frame record function on the EX1. We curved an old poster to create a small infinity curve and then asked the kids to make some figures out of their playdoh. I used my two dedolights for illumination and then it was just...

Black water, golden sky

Shot in January 2008 at a river that’s within walking distance of my house. I really liked the shot of the Typhoon fighter jets as they were lit by the sun and everything else around me was starting to get dark. The two big lessons learned on this video were...