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Sick of Reading About The New Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 & FlexTT5

Zeke Kamm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:39:06 +0000

I don’t know about you but I’m sick of reading about the new Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 & FlexTT5. That’s why I’m glad to see some video’s showing up. (See what I did there? It’s called a sucker punch!)

I don’t plan on using them for ETTL control, but I do plan on using them to push the sync speed. I’m also a big fan of the smaller form factor. Anyhow, I’ll get into it more once my units get here. In the mean time, here’s that video I was talking about featuring the famous Fong.

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Inspirational Photography Video

Zeke Kamm — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:02:37 +0000

It’s inspiration Friday here at Nice Magazine. And what a treat we have. Check out these beautifully shot, brilliantly odd videos by cinematographer Marc Ritzema.

The first is a wonderfully dramatic and mysterious piece. It gets my creative juices flowing.

Yes, the second video has the word Jesus is in the song, but that’s not what I mean when I say inspirational. I’m talking about the ideas and imagery in the film. It actually has nothing to do with that bearded guy who has a predilection for robes.

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Fine Art Photo Video – Hang’er

Zeke Kamm — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:22:41 +0000

About a month ago I posted an article persuading the Nice readers to check out Fine Art Photographer Dominic Rouse. Dominic emailed me and mentioned I might be interested in watching a video he made with an explanation of the image “Hang’er”. Um, yep!

Already feeling a connection to this image, his explanation (in the video below) inspires me to take my photography to still deeper places. Hopefully it will for you, too.

Enjoy.

Have a Nice weekend!

The Most Inspiring Work I’ve Seen In Years

Zeke Kamm — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:17 +0000

I just watched the following video and have to say I think it is possibly the most inspiring work I’ve seen in years. Not the content, as interesting as it is, so much as the achievement. Sometimes I get an idea and I hem and haw about it because of the amount of work involved in getting the props or actors together to make it happen. And here, Blu has created this tomb, a massive investment of energy and time.

I would classify this as Meta Art. Though the surreal images, gruesome at times, are interesting, what effects me as it unfolds is imagining it being created, the world happening around the creation. I love that they photograph so much of the surrounding area and include several images where people are walking by.

Motu makes me want to get off my ass and go make art.

Agree? Disagree? Let us know in the comments below.

Video – The Emotional Power of a Short Depth Of Field

Zeke Kamm — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:13:05 +0000

Here is a video I really enjoyed made by Gabor Tarnok that shows the emotional power of using a short depth of field. The spectacular part is that despite what your eyes are telling you, this was not shot with some $100,000 film or digital high def camera. It was shot with a $750 Canon HV20 and an SGPro 35mm DOF adapter. A brief description of a DOF adapter: It lets your small sensor video camera focus on the film plane of a wide aperture lens that is attached in front of it. This lets your camera that would otherwise only have a very deep depth of field have a much shallower one. If there is interest I’ll go into this further in another post. For now… enjoy Gabor’s video.

At Home from Gabor Tarnok on Vimeo.

I don’t know about you, but watching this video made me feel like I was back in time when I was a kid (I swear I was a kid once, just ask me mum!).

Using a short depth of field along with Gabor’s skilled photographic eye, and a well picked audio track, Mr. Tarnok has taken a home video of his children and made it into a piece of art.

Agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments below.

You can see it in full screen HD over on Vimeo. Just click “At Home” above.

I will be writing an in depth article on using Depth of Field soon. In the meantime I’ve mentioned Depth of Field in these two articles if you’d like to know more.

1. Contrast – The Blood of Life
2.How to Take a Portrait Without a Face

Enjoy!

The Radiopopper Videos and Review Page

Zeke Kamm — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:50:46 +0000

Since this is Radiopopper week (unofficially of course) I thought I’d point you to a few radiopopper resources.

1. My review. My mom says it’s the best one.

2. The Radiopopper review page on their site.

3-5. Here are three videos to watch featuring the little buggers.

Video one is my radio popper unboxing video.

Video two:

RadioPopper Promo from Patrick Moreau on Vimeo.

Video Three:

You’ll have to click to download this one. It’s the Radiopopper install video.

While you are here, don’t forget to sign up on the right hand side of the page to be notified when we add new content. We don’t spam. Thanks! Let us know what you think of the poppers in the comments below.

Angry Sheep – Video of a Photo Shoot

Zeke Kamm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:40:17 +0000

The stunning and magnificent Kristen Schaal (Mel from Flight of the Concords) has posted a video that is the perfect example of confusing the model with strange direction mentioned in the article, Keep It Stupid, Stupid.

Angry Erotic Sheep in the Woods from kschaal on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Video of Black and White Photography Master Andre Kertesz

Zeke Kamm — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:01:54 +0000

If you’ve never seen the work of Black and White photography master André Kertész, here’s your chance to get exposed in a condensed video about the man and his photographs.

After concentrating on color digital photography almost exclusively for the past few years, it was seeing his exhibit of B&W photographs at the Getty that inspired me to hit the streets looking to make some new black and whites of my own. Nice.

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Gregory Crewdson behind the scenes.

Zeke Kamm — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:21:05 +0000

An unedited look behind the scenes of a Gregory Crewdson fine art photo shoot. Crewdson is one of my all time favorite photographers. If you’ve never seen his work this video might not have the same effect on you as it did on me. I find his images compel the viewer to stop, stare, and wonder.

This image is from his book Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson, a book packed with inspiration.

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