There are so many excellent picture of Paris, it is hard to do something new and original! Well that is what Brahamino did with great style! Congrats!
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.
Thanks Izzy from Izzy video for these great tips, I will try them soon!
Jeremy Vest giving 7 tips on how to make great online videos and I agree with all of them! Congrats Jeremy, short, simple and straight to the point!
http://vidpow.com/courses/7-reasons-businesses-fail-youtube/
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.
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!
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!
While in Greece it is difficult not to take pictures of the sea! what is not easy is to make something a bit different. I read in a photo magazine recently that it is interesting to take long shoots of the sea and the movement of the sea will become beautifully blurry, almost foggy.
Ideally it is best to have a filter to reduce the light (can't remember the name). In the few pictures below, I had no filter but I am quite happy about the result. I played a bit with the filters of the Nik Collection to give a bit of style but the result is quite satisfying. On the first two pictures below the aperture is at its lowest (f16) and the shutter speed 1/8 of a second. I particularly like the smoky effect close to the rock on the second picture. For the third pic, the aperture is f14 and the speed at 1/10 of a second.
The sky is a completely burned which is a pity as it is quite beautiful but as there was no clouds, there was nothing to contrast with.
I strongly recommend to try this technique, it is a really nice way to take original pics of the sea and to capture a little bit of the magic of its movement!
An unbelievable story from Vicki Croke about elephants during the WWII, worth to listen till the end! More about this story and Vicki Croke on her website http://vickicroke.com.
This olive tree is 200 years old and keeps on producing lots of olives for a delicious olive oil.
Nicolas has a nice little balcony. On that day it was cloudy and windy. In less than one hour I got this really cool time-lapse that I pimped a little bit with some nice blurry effects.
When the sea is incredibly clear, selfportrait from the sea are not the same ...
Good mix of skate and fashion in a strange desert town. I particularly like the skaters outfit, very elegant. Female models are giving an interesting contrast. The video was made for a fashion magazine but I could not get instantly which one (l'officiel?).
Great case study of youtube marketing about a product no one heard about before. These guys were so good that they are speaking at conferences now! Full analysis on the REELSEO here, and a realy nice interview where Dane Golden explain his 4 Cs of good video marketing: Content, Collaboration, Call for Action and Consistency
Thanks to Joe Simon, Stillmotion, and our Tell Amazing Stories filmmakers who crafted this film with us.
Learn more about our collaborative filmmaking community at www.storyandheart.com.
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A time off
But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't turn everything
All of your senses
On
A time to connect
With family
With friends
With yourself
A time for rest
And for fireworks
There is always time for fireworks.
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Music: "We Are Alive" by Golden Youth (c/o Marmoset Music)
So simple!
