194.36 fps
Shooting a promo piece for Tigi at 194.36 fps on the Red Epic Dragon. Flowing hair, cloth and ribbons begin to move gracefully at this frame rate.
Read MoreShooting a promo piece for Tigi at 194.36 fps on the Red Epic Dragon. Flowing hair, cloth and ribbons begin to move gracefully at this frame rate.
Read MoreWhen it comes to filming History, the photographic benchmark is particularly high. So when I was asked to shoot a history drama with long time collaborator Chris Holt we poured over the many great examples of period photography. There are several inspired approaches to the past, but we were particularly drawn to Justin Kurzel and Adam Arkapaw's breathtaking Macbeth and to the challenge set by Barry Lyndon's bold reliance on candle light.
Read MoreStill reeling from having won an RTS for my work on the "Secret Life of Twins'. Loved working on this film with maestro Luke Wiles at the helm, and the sterling support of the OSF production team.
Read More"Witch Hunt: A Century of Murder" a docu-drama I shot earlier this year is about to go out on Channel 5. Two x 1 hours, directed by Chris Holt with historian Suzannah Lispcomb.
Read MoreI have always shot a lot of hand-held. It's still the most intuitive operating style, the one most in sync with the human movements of your subject. But the breathing and sway it brings can denote an extra point of view, the presence of the camera watching in the scene.
Read MoreShooting Parkour, the ultimate mix of urban physicality and heroism. We wanted to shoot with considered, steady camera movement to evoke some of the gladiatorial majesty of the Traceur. The terrain we planned to track across and through was rough, uneven, obstacle ridden, broken concrete.
Read MoreShooting for the first time in Thailand provided a wealth of photographic colour and texture. From the picture postcard islands to the neon night bustle of Bangkok to the jungles and Buddhist temples of the North I was saturated with visual inspiration.
Read MoreIntense colour saturation, contrast and texture is making my retina fizz at 16oz studios!
Read MoreShooting black-light Beauty at 16oz Studios. Only the Red Epic Dragon with its Skin Tone OLPF could hold this degree of colour fidelity at the dark end of the spectrum!
Read MoreShooting at Sea in Cape Town, one of the most breathtaking coastlines in the world. No two days look the same as this watery landscape responds rapidly to tides, light and wind. If you can overcome the violent pitching that working at sea requires, the mirrored surface offers its own drama, texture and beauty.
Read MoreI am left slightly speechless after three weeks of filming in the Arctic. Travelling on an Ice-breaker through the sea-ice revealed some of the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen. Throughout our journey around Svalbard there was perpetual daylight... the hard, low sun never setting.
Read MoreGreat to see this film is about to air! It details the true story of errant trader Justin Paperny and his journey from stockbroker to prisoner.
Read MoreShooting a beauty promo on Arri/Zeiss Masterprimes. Undoubtedly my favourite of the fast primes out there. Their performance at T1.3 (where we shot everything) is famously undiminished.
Read MoreShooting motion in the Brazilian Amazon is always challenging, but the photographic rewards are high. We were there at the end of the rainy season and, true to form, it poured down regularly.
Read MoreSoaking up the vibrant street art of San Francisco and London.
Read MoreSimultaneously prepping 'Studio' and 'Verite' Epic Dragon camera packages for a shoot. The mechanics of the camera system determine so much of the language that they will be used for...
Read MoreNo filming in the United States is complete without soaking up its intoxicating landscape of roads and cars.
Read MoreThis extraordinary lens is completely rectilinear even at 9.5mm, no distortion, no breathing and sharp as a tack. As none of the usual wide-angle visual cues are present in its 'look' the visual effect is startling.
Read MoreJust completed what has been an extraordinary month of filming. A month of exacting, balanced, and largely symmetrical composition and camera movement. Photographic symmetry has long been used by film makers to denote order, to foreground systems or patterns, to highlight cinematic artifice, or to underline the geometry of context.
Read MoreAlthough there is far more to a lens than shooting resolution charts, these tests are helpful for looking at certain performance characteristics. I charts below are from four spherical 50mm lenses, shot first clean and then with lens flare. The flare was provided by a fairly aggressive Dedo spot-light hitting the lens from the left of the chart.
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