Emeli Sandé - Next to Me

Here is my most recent project I have completed: Emeli Sande's "Next to Me (Kendrick Lamar Remix).

Shot this on a Canon t2i with a Canon 14-40mm f/4L lens in different areas of downtown LA. Mounted the camera onto a tripod and basically shuffled through 7 different shutter speeds and sequenced them together in After Effects to get the motion/animated gif look.

Emeli is a great artist, and it's good to see they're bringing her overseas from the UK.

Super Moon

"Earth's closest celestial neighbour will appear to loom larger and brighter than usual on Saturday night, as astronomers anticipate a cosmic event called an "extreme supermoon".

Scientists say the natural phenomenon — in which the moon reaches its closest point to this planet — will cause abnormally high and low tides worldwide.

The occurrences, technically known as "lunar perigees," were previously visible in 1955, 1974, 1992, 1993 and 2005. But what makes this one particularly special is that it coincides with a full moon, which hasn't happened since 1993, according to Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C."

                                                                      CBC News

I was gassing up when I was coming home from work when I decided to stop by Perry's and pick up my t2i. I left it there awhile back because I was heading to get some drinks after some shooting and didn't feel like lugging around my tripod and lens.

I've actually been anticipating this night and wanted to shoot some footage of the moon for my DSLR project I've been working on. I was planning to waking up at 4pm when the moon was lower and closer, but due to incoming rain clouds it looked like that wouldn't be an option. No matter, I still have a bunch of good closing footage, so I decided to try and get at least a good shot of the moon before the clouds completely mow over it.

I think this is the first time I've ever used the telephoto lens my friend Celina let me borrow. It's a 75-300mm 4.5-.5.6 and never found it practical when shooting since I mostly shot video, but tonight I was really thankful to have it. Thanks Celina :D.

Moving.

So I've decided to move from my old LiveJournal account to a blogger account to get a much more professional and less personal feel. I think for the most part, I'll keep things relative, but don't be surprised if I post a few personal things here and there. I've decided to cut things off from my previous blog due to the fact that I've had it for some many years (since 2005) as a personal blog and at some point the blog was even shared by another Joe.

Anyways, continuing where I left off, I'm still testing out my workflow with my DSLR footage from my Canon T2i. I've basically decided to give myself practice with my DSLR by making a simple "daily life" kind of video that I plan to put on Vimeo. Nothing too major, just some days I've shot from February 11 to early March. So far I'm still in the process of cutting it all together, then on to color correcting, and then I plan to add some motion graphics/kinetic typography to make things a bit more interesting. This will be my first personal video project that I have shot and edited on my own in maybe 4 or 5 years, so I'm pretty excited as to how this all turns out.

Here's some finalist videos that caught me eye from the Vimeo Festival. Definitely some good stuff out there.

"Nuit Blanche" by Spy Studios.



And here's one called "Pennies Heart" from Phos Pictures, those same guys who did "Last Minutes with Oden". I'm kind of surprised that they're stuff was so good that two of their videos were nominated for best documentary.



Well, that's for my first post. Hope you treat me well, Blogger.