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Anamorphic on a Budget - The New Romantics

April 18, 2016

Double post? Not really, since the previous one didn't cover any of the technical aspects of the shooting and I'm pretty sure - based on my A7s2 post - that there are many people interested. First of all, VOTE FOR US HERE! Shooting this teaser was my first experience with the A7s2 and sLog-3. Also …

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The New Romantics.

April 10, 2016

Last weekend was epic. About a month ago, Storyhive announced their webseries competition (is that the right word?) was open, and the deadline is tomorrow. The first stage is to deliver a one-minute pitch video for a show along with a bunch of other documents and concepts, proving that you sort of …

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A Few Notes on the Sony A7s II.

April 7, 2016

Since I bought the camera, I've had lots of people asking me various things about it. For the first couple of weeks, all I managed to do was shoot stills of my cat and roam pointlessly through the menus. Being a Canon user ever since I started photography (aka 2008), switching systems was a bit …

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Upcoming, 2016.

April 3, 2016

It's a new year and a moment to update my goals and what to expect of the following videos. USEFUL LINKS: Look for Pentax 50mm f/4 Macro on eBay Check out the Anamorphic Calculator All the RED links on this post are part of eBay's Partner Network, so if you purchase anything through them, you're …

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Finnegan!

March 22, 2016

I've come to realize I haven't been posting anything about life lately, just anamorphics and and technical things. Time to fix that! Langara has gotten less worrying than it was in the beginning and we're heading towards the end of the first semester. - I wrote this sentence a week and a half ago …

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Films and Sound: an Unbalanced Relationship

March 21, 2016

Modern cinema follows a strict set of rules, a long preestablished language composed of conventions and agreements employed and accepted respectively by both the filmmakers and the audience. For example, when we see a close up of a character’s face followed by another close up of his or her hands …

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Season 12: Anamorphic Cookbook.

March 9, 2016

I've been working really hard on lensporn lately. This work resulted on these cool looking new banners to represent the twelfth season of this blog and an opening for my upcoming videos, starting in a few weeks from now (I'm still fine tuning everything in place, grading shots and trimming the music …