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Olive Harvest in Greece

This is my modest hommage to the best olive oil in the world: the one from my father in law! I know, it is a bit bias but I have tried in this video to show all the hard work and knowledge you need to produce an outstanding olive oil. 

I have used lots of slow-motion shoots in order to capture the beauty of the place and of the gesture of olive harvesting. 

This olive oil is for sale and I can arrange a shipment anywhere in the world!

Olive season in Kastro (Greece) stars in November and ends around Christmas. It is 2 months of hard work that gives one of the best olive oil I have ever tasted.

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Don't Bore

My friend Tomek wrote to me today flagging this very good video from Levis. He wrote the following, I cannot agree more! 

"I find it to be a masterpiece of marketing and storytelling. It's super mainstream (too mainstream for my tastes) but still remains authentic. From the technical point of view: look how swift this is - moves fast, never bores. And, what's more relevant, it's about something more: it's not about pants - it's a bout lifestyle and who you are (or should be)." 

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Full Moon, at least I managed to take a good picture of it!

It took me a bit of time to understand but I made it :-) taking a picture of full moon is not easy in the beginning because the logic is a bit counterintuitive. When I started taking pics of the moon, it was always too bright with sort of allow around the pic... It was OK but I could not see details of the moon.

Today I used an other setting AND a tripod, that is very important because even if you take the pic with fast speed, the camera needs to be perfectly stable. Then, aperture f4 and speed 800 with 200 ISO :-)

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Cycling in the woods and playing with slow-motion

Playing with gopro when cycling in the wood. I was testing all rate frames starting with 100 frames/sec up to 240 frames/sec! I really like the slowmo effect and how it can give a complete other dimension to a shoot. I also played with the fast-forward effect as I was filming 4K at 12 frames/sec.

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Pictures from September (and a little bit of October)

This video is about my pictures in September and a little bit in October too. This month I feel in love with portraits with black backgrounds. You will see several series of portraits including our friend Georgia 5 days before she gave birth :-) her belly was really impressive and the pictures are really beautiful.

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Studio portraits from my living room

I had a lot of fun this weekend setting up a black screen in the living room and taking some really nice pictures there. I used 2 light-boxes for the faces and that worked really nicely. Something I found really interesting my Lumix GX7 gave some really good results in RAW and completely crap on JEPG. I guess one of the settings was not right for these kind of special conditions but I was very happy to see that black is great when coming straight out of the sensor!

I will continue using this setting and black background as I think it really creates a classy images and sharp details. 

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Best ad for the Yes in Scotland

I read a very interesting article this morning saying that allowed budgets for the referendum campaign in Scotland is limited (something around £3M) and hence campaigner will have to be very creative in using their money. 

Well here is an excellent example of a video based on a very well written script and a nice use of text rolling. Worth watching till the end!

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Wonderful Time Lapse from Greece

Several of the time lapse I have made in Greece this summer. Most of them are taken in Kastro where my wife is coming from. Time lapse are a great way to capture the beauty of a sunset so watch it in HD! If you like this video, register to my channel!

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