07 October 2009 | Posted in experimental, photography, video Here's a little timelapse photography experiment I did for my wife Brit. It was created from around 6,000 photos taken while she was working on an artwork called "Under Pressure".
01 October 2009 | Posted in iphone, photography 
Having a lot of fun lately with The Best Camera iPhone app. The nice thing is that it not only lets you apply filters to you iPhone shots (a lot of apps do that), but that you can subsequently modify the order of the filters, or even delete one or more of them. This way you can try a lot of different variations quickly. It also lets you post the result to multiple sites simultaneously, as well as to it's own community site.
29 September 2009 | Posted in inspiration, photography If you like Joe McNally's back-of-a-napkin lighting diagrams you have to love Maciek Lesniaks take on this. His lighting diagrams are little artworks in themselves: photos of the lighting setup with notes scribbled on them, see the example below. Check out more on Flickr or on www.macieklesniak.com.
28 September 2009 Below are four short videos with you that I've recently found on Vimeo.com. All of them are fairly minimalistic in that they consist of only one "shot". They also have relatively common, everyday subjects, except perhaps for the first one. Sounds like a recipe for utter boredom, but that's definitely not the case here. Each one of them has a creative twist that makes you look differently at the subject.
1. Hand Feeding Sharks by Michael Fletcher
Check out Michaels other stuff here, definitely worth it.
27 September 2009 There's no reason why one can't process photos from a DSLR with an iPhone app (top) or edit images from the low-fi iPhone camera with a pro application like Aperture (bottom)...
17 August 2009 | Posted in video Some time ago I was in South Africa, testing out (among other things) the Canon 5d MkII. From the test footage I created the video below, titled "A short hike in Gansbaai". It was filmed in and around the beautiful Seastar Lodge guesthouse and the Duiwelsgat Trail, a coastal hiking trail that passes by the guesthouse. Some of the shots might not be perfect, as I couldn't always see the LCD screen on the back of the camera clearly because of the sun, or because I was trying to get some impossible angle of a passing turtle while messing with the focus and exposure at the same time. But I decided to just leave those imperfections for what they were and use the footage anyway.
The timelapse shot of the sunset at the end is actually created from 999 still images shot with a Nikon D200 with 10.5mm fish eye lens.
29 July 2009 | Posted in video It's amazing sometimes how the way something is filmed changes your perception of it, and I don't just mean visually. Recently, I was working with Philip de Roo on creating a short promo clip. The idea was to shoot Philip from two different angles (and don't worry, this is not going to be a technical story about camera angles). One camera, a Canon XH-A1 was positioned straight in front of Philip, and another one, a Canon 5d MkII, was off to the side.
So far so good, but somehow after about half an hour we both felt we weren't really getting anywhere and decided to call it a day. Nonetheless we had a quick look at what we had captured, just in case there were any useful bits after all. The footage from the XH-A1 looked pretty boring, it just lacked something. The images captured by the 5d MkII told a completely different story however. Below you can see some screen captures of the two side by side. Unfortunately I can't show you the actual footage - Philip will kill me - so images will have to do.
Many wonderful qualities have been attributed to the 5d MkII and you have to admit that this camera, in combination with the angle, make Philip look a lot more interesting here. However, the most remarkable thing about this exercise was that, when watching this footage, what Philip said was making a lot more sense. Before, it looked like he was struggling with his words, not very convincing. Now it sounded like there were actually some very usable segments. Yet, it was the exact same thing, just filmed differently. I was surprised to see how much the visual aspect influenced how one perceives what is being said.
12 November 2008 | Posted in marketing, social media, video Example #1: Whenever camera manufacturers launch a new product, they create some nice sales collateral (i.e. brochures, ads, etc.) that makes you want to buy their stuff. So when Nikon introduced their new D90 model, they hired pro-photographer Chase Jarvis to shoot a cool brochure that makes you feel like all you need to do is run out and get a D90 and you'll be well on your way to become the next, well, Chase Jarvis.
