Color correction and grade right in your camera

Color correction and grading right in your camera using your white balance, color shift and picture style settings.

As great as using picture styles like CineStyle to acquire a very flat image for the maximum amount of post grading, the truth is HDSLR video codecs aren’t very strong and can fall apart quickly if pushed too far in post. If you are able, getting the image right in your camera is always the best option.

Still motion put together this great tutorial showing just how far you can push your image right in the camera. I’ve done this often myself but never for stylized work. They show you how you can completely change the feel of your video with just a few button presses.

Peter Jackson will film The Hobbit on 30 RED Epic cameras

The Hobbit, the prequel to the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, is set to begin filming early next year. The Hobbit will be released as two films and will be filmed in 3D. Peter Jackson is working with RED to film The Hobbit on 30 custom machined Epic cameras.

The Hobbit will be amongst the first productions in the world to use the EPIC and at least thirty cameras will be required by the 3-D production. The EPIC’S small size and relatively low weight, makes it perfect for 3-D – where two cameras have to be mounted on each 3D rig.

Jackson has a long history with RED, dating back to when he directed the short film ‘Crossing the Line’ as a very early test of prototype RED ONE cameras. “I have always liked the look of Red footage.” he says, “I’m not a scientist or mathematician, but the image Red produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with the Epic, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is a fantastic tool, the Epic not only has cutting edge technology, incredible resolution and visual quality, but it is also a very practical tool for film makers. Many competing digital systems require the cameras to be tethered to large cumbersome VTR machines. The Epic gives us back the ability to be totally cable free, even when working in stereo.”

Photography quotes

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
  ― Karl Lagerfeld

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
  ― Ansel Adams

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”  ― Ansel Adams

 “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
  ― Diane Arbus

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
  ― Abraham Lincoln

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
  ― Susan Sontag

 “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
  ― Ted Grant

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
  ― Eudora Welty

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
  ― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
  ― Robert Frank

Coming soon Canon EOS 7D Mark II

 

Lots of talk

There is lots of talk about the successor to the Canon EOS 7D. For the last 6 months we have written that the EOS 70D would move up rung in features in the EOS lineup, as such the EOS 7D Mark II will be doing the same thing.

We’re told two possible sensors are in play for the EOS 7D Mark II,

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Video Editing Software: What to Look For

When shopping for the best video editing software, you'll want to find an application that offers a variety of useful editing tools, compatibility with many file formats, an easy-to-use interface and strong support options. Below is a breakdown of what we were looking for when we tested video editor software:

Editing Tools
Editing tools include everything from changing the background lighting and color tones to clipping the video so you get the perfect segment for what you need. We specifically looked for

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Video Editing Software: Review

Taking pictures and video is so easy, especially with digital devices, that it doesn't take long to accumulate a lot of footage. Instead of keeping your videos and photos on a memory card or on your computer, you can create polished movies and slideshows to show off. This type of software makes it easy to trim portions of film at the front, end or in the middle. You can add music to videos and you can even add audio voice-overs. Once you finish creating a great video,


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