8' Rails.
8’ slider in the house. What an amazing tool; over head tracking shots, car interiors…..the possibilities are endless. Here is an example of a slide left-right and back to front. Incredible.
THE MINSEING PROJECT
A passion project for me. Here is a clip from a special place called Minesing Wetlands. Shot on Red Helium with IR Full Spectrum OLPF and a very aggressive curve.
NICE HORSE
Shot on Red Gemini, I love the colour and depth created in this music video.
"COULD WE" MUSIC VIDEO RELEASED
About a year ago, we made a beautiful music video for the super-talented Strangers On a Plane Duo. A simple studio shoot on a white background that we lit blue.
Below is a still, and here is a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-L3AKPqrRs
XPAN KODAk E.I.R
For around a decade I have had a few expired rolls of Kodak E.I.R Color Infrared Film. I decided to shoot some Xpan images as I always have my that camera with me, and wanted to see if anything unusual would come of it (more unusual than ‘normal’).
I was very pleased when I got the film back from the lab.
Here are a couple of shots from the roll.
MONOCHROME INFRARED
Part of an ongoing project, I have rediscovered a ‘new’ world Infrared, in this case Monochrome Infrared.
The photo below is a still from a video I am working on with the Optical Low Pass Filter removed in the camera- it means that the sensor is sensitive to Ultra Violet and Infrared wavelengths- something that the filter is designed to eliminate.
Further to removing the OLPF, here I am using a a filter that blocks almost all visible, light, yielding a very surrealistic image.
Distortion lenses
Keslow Camera Distortion lenses are essentially globes of plastic with wires and other elements inside.
The effect was quite striking, although a little difficult to get anything particularly sharp, but a good takeaway here is imagining what could be done with tools like this.
They are unique and it’s amazing to think someone had the vision to adapt these to work with film cameras.
MONOCHROME VIDEO FOR SAMANTHA MARTIN
For this project, we wanted the look to be just like shooting Ilford black and white print film, so we used a Red Dragon Monochrome.
This sensor’s photosites are not covered with colored filters, like almost all other digital sensors are, which makes it more sensitve to light, and provides greater reoslution and clarity.
We also used a deep RED filter and a Polaizer on Kowa Anamorphics for a striking effect.
Here are some examples from the shoot.
ROUNDIE-RIG, OR WHIRLYBIRD CAM.
For a recent shoot, the Director wanted a 360 , nodal move around a variety of subjects and objects, on green screen.
Having tested this a year before, I built a larger version of the rig to achieve the shots.
The center of the platform is static, while the camera and green screen are linked to each other.
This is different from rotating the subject, as the lighting changes on the subject without the use of dimmers or having to move the lights during the shot.
