Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, Sunday, August 6, 2017 (This is a vacation day. It has nothing to do with the video business.) The Newport Jazz Festival is an amazing event, not just for the music even though the music is usually wonderful. One of the things that...
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Sigma 200-500mm Lens -Funniest Customer Reviews Ever
The Sigma 200 - 500mm with a Nikon F mount is an amazing lens (currently unavailable). It has an aperture of F2.8 at the 500mm end and F5.6 at the 1000mm focal length. It's a heavy one at 35 pounds. It's pretty amazing. The only real catch I see is its price :...
How Not To Do Green Screen
Sorry guys, but this won't work. The shows how not to do green screen.
Make A Parody
Looking for a great topic for your next video? Make a parody of a well-known film. The example above may get your creative juices flowing, but it will only be meaningful if you've seen Birdman which just won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday night. Below is the...
Six Figure YouTube Stars
$700,000 from a Kids' YouTube Channel "Sidewalk Cops 4 - The Car Thief " has had more than 13 million views This California family had an idea - why not make a video of our two sons trying out new toys. They call it the Gabe & Garrett Show. Their videos get tens...
The Night I Met Robin Williams At My Front Door
Robin Williams in 2002 I lived in New York City for about ten years working in the film and TV business as a freelance assistant cameraman and then cameraman. We'd often go out on the town partying till the wee hours. On one of those foolish, wild nights I was making...
Recover the Video Amateur Within
This is from an insightful infographic "So You Want To Be A Photographer" by Foto Seeds. It could just as easily be about being a Videographer. You will recognize yourself and see what happens when you make it a business. If you've lost some of that passion you had as...
Camera Sutra
Travel photographer and HDR guru Trey Ratcliff sells this “Camera Sutra” as a T-shirt at his Stuck In Customs online store. Oh what we do to get the perfect shot!
What We Learn From The Movies
All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. It’s easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down. Once applied,...
Hippopotamus and the Tortoise
"Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed." - Rachel Naomi Remen, MD NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port...
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