Jared Abrams has been proclaiming the above for a little while now. It’s hard to argue against him, just about two years ago Timelapse photography started taking the community by storm. Everyone wanted to be the next Tom Lowe & Shawn Reeder. Thanks Eric Kessler and his ridiculously intelligent team at Kessler Crane, people were able to get in an experiment with Timelapse at an affordable price. Mike Sutton of RULE Boston Camera and the folks at FASTEC are gearing up to do the same thing with the TS3Cine. With the ability to capture up to 720 frames per second, the TS3Cine is a beast. High speed in the palm of your hand, this camera is gearing up to make some serious waves. Built like a TANK
.jpg "photo 1") Solid chunk of metal in the palm of your hand. Many people use the above descriptions to describe cameras like the 1DX and Nikon D4, but neither of those compare to the TS3Cine. This thing is a piece of metal molded to the human hand. It’s got serious heft, but isn’t too heavy you can’t carry it around with you all day. It’s solid and feels like it can take a serious beating. It has this grated cage like pattern on the front adding some edginess to its highly utilitarian design. It’s a really smart design because it’s reminiscent of a DSLR and offers a lot of the benefits those cameras have. Shooters will feel at home when they pick up the TS3Cine and notices that buttons are where they should be. The guys at FASTEC are known for their scientific cameras, which usually leave a lot to be desired, but that’s certainly not the case here.
The Screen
.jpg "TS3 Back") A massive 7" screen resides on the back of the TS3Cine. The screen on the TS3Cine is kind of a mix bag. Upon initial review I was marveled by it. It’s like an iPad with a lens mount on the back. The screen is just ginormous at 7″. The touch controls weren’t fully active during my time, but it will be with the next firmware. The TS3Cine still leaves a little room for hardware controls, directional pad, set button, arm and record buttons, and of course and off button. Where the screen does let down a bit is in visual performance. Its certainly not representative of the actual quality of the footage. Our problems with contrast and brightness certainly were compounded by the lack of a hood for the monitor, but overall the display can be a bit better.
Industry Impact
.jpg "MER_7315-2") Jason Diamond & Mike Sutton setting up a shot on the TS3Cine in NYC! The TS3Cine is going to be a big deal for a multitude of reasons. For one it’s affordable, at least in comparison to its bigger brothers (Phantom Flex and HD Gold). It’s extremely compact and light. You don’t need a whole crew to monitor this bad boy. It’s so simple to operate and through out our whole day with the unit we didn’t encounter a single glitch. The image quality is lovely and the camera has the ability to record Cinema DNG RAW, Tiff Stacks, JPEG Stacks, and AVI. The battery life is awesome, garnishing about four hours on a single battery. The batteries are beefy, but you should have no issue making it through a full day with two or three of these bad boys. It’s a work horse of a camera. Companies like ESPN, UFC, and Discovery have been waiting for a camera like this. Instead of only having say two Phantom Flex’s they can have six of these, or maybe one Flex and 3 of these. Rigging these cameras is sure to be much easier and productions won’t blink an eye at using them as crash cameras. Nascar, Formula 1, X Games, I mean the list goes on and on. It’s not a GoPro killer and it’s not a Phantom Flex killer, it is it’s own thing and fills a very large gap in the high speed arena. Mike and the team at RULE Boston Camera saw the potential of this camera system and have worked very hard to get it into the hands of many of the top rental houses, sporting networks, and filmmakers. The next evolution in high speed photography is here and it’s the TS3Cine. Check out a few other images from the day’s shoot!
Posted in Cameras, Canon, digital cameras, FASTEC, field test, Filmmaking, hd, High Speed Photography, Lightroom, Photography, Technology, TS3Cine, Vimeo, WebsitesTags: Action Sports, Canon, DSLR, ESPN, FASTEC, Filmmaker, FLEX, High Speed, Indie, Phantom, Photography, Science, TS3Cine, UFC
 500px is taking the online photo sharing community by storm! I’ve been gone for too long my friends, but I am back to tell you all about a site that has dominated my browser for the last few months. The site I want to talk to you about is called 500px. 500px is a photo sharing website which has attracted AAA photographers from all walks of life, due to its simplistic sharing design, feature set, and incredible image quality. The first thing you notice as you arrive to 500px land from FlickRville is how cleaner images look on 500px. They just pop off your screen. 500px combines their image quality with a like it/dislike it image rating scale, which almost ensures that great images always rise to the top. Though as of right now, most images you find in the popular section feature foreign women with very large breasts. I can only complain so much about that one.
I’ve slowly been adding images to my collection and toying with the idea of ditching FlickR and 4ormat.com entirely to build my online portfolio on 500px. For $50 dollars a year you can become AWESOME which gives you access to unlimited uploads, multi page portfolio layouts, google analytics, ad free pages, custom domain and much more. It’s a great value in comparison to other portfolio based websites.
.png "Screen shot 2011-09-12 at 1.24.15 PM") Ioana adds another great image to her astonishing 500px collection. However, my favorite part of 500px is looking at the marvelous artwork of my fellow photographers. Surfing through 500px can be a very painful experience. Every image seems to be crafted by imaging gods. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “bad” photo on the site. 500px is full of some of the best images covering a range of different subject matter. Though “Nudes” may dominate the Popular section of photos, the Editor’s choice section features some of the most astounding photographs from the wild life, landscape, and portraiture arenas I’ve ever seen. A great feature is the ability to buy high quality prints at a variety of sizes and canvas style.
A lot of people have been shouting from the rooftops about how FlickR is going the way of VHS, I’m not exactly on that bandwagon, but I’m reaching to jump on it. With 500px taking off and Google+ luring people like Trey Ratcliff to their yard, FlickR seems to be in need of a refresh. Will they refresh it? Only time will tell.
P.S Check out my 500px photo collection here!
P.P.S: $10 off your 500px AWESOME upgrade with the promo code “FRIENDS” Can’t say I never did anything for ya!
Posted in 1D Mark IV, 500px, 5D Mark II, Art, Cameras, Canon, Landscape Photography, Photo of the Day, Photography, Photography, Stills, Technology, WebsitesTags: 500px, Astrophotography, FlickR, HDR, Sharing, Slow Shutter, Social, Stars, Trey Ratcliff
.jpg "20110726-_MG_0223") Street Artist It’s been a while since I’ve done a PoTD thing on this site, or even posted a simple set of pictures. Well I’ve come to break that trend here today. I went out and surveyed one of the nicer sides of Queens today looking for something to shoot. I stumbled across this brilliant graffiti artist, whose name I forgot to grab, and got him to pose for two shots. I also screwed up by not having proper business cards on me. How professional and swanky can you really appear when you have to write down your url on a folder… with someone else’s pen! But I digress.
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Oh and before you rant about how illegal what he’s doing is know that it isn’t. 5 Points, which is located in Astoria, is one of the few places in NYC where it’s perfectly legal to practice graffiti, granted you ask permission first. The place is full of incredible art ranging from comic book icons to music murals and everything in between.
More pics to come at my 500PX page!
Posted in 500px, Canon, Lightroom, nyc, Photo of the Day, Photography, WebsitesTags: Canon, graffiti, incredible art, NYC, Photo of the Day, street artist
Recently I received a very kind email from a kind fellow named Andrei Butyanko about a particular part of my iPad 2 post. After checking out an example I posted from the CeltX app featuring a snippet of my work, Andrei sent me an email inquiring about how I write and how I sift through my ideas. I decided I’d write a proper blog post to share some of the ideas I shared with him and see what works for some of you guys.
I’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember. Some of my more grandiose story ideas as a child came from my time sitting in the backseat of my grandmother’s car as her and my mother dragged me from department store to department store. Back then all I had was a composition notebook, a pencil, and my imagination. I didn’t have the technical know how I do now. I couldn’t keep my words firmly between the lines printed on the crisp white pages. I didn’t know what a screenplay was or even what a three act structure was. And you know what? It was better that way. View full post »
Posted in Advice, Editing, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Movies, Screenwriting, TutorialsTags: 2001, books, Elements of Style, Hollywood, Movies, screenplay, screenwriting, self help, soul, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Writing
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Its taken awhile for me to sit down and write this blog post, which am in fact typing on my iPad 2, but it’s finally here. I held out on the iPad one. I wasn’t as negative on it as some journalists who dismissed it as a giant iPod touch. I embraced the idea of such a notion, but I wanted to wait for the app store to develop. There were not enough iPad only apps for me, or at least ones that lived up to the device’s potential. My feelings lasted all of a few months, before I had the burning desire for a tablet device. What sparked the sudden desire you say? The laptop.
As I started to grow as a photographer and cinematographer, opportunities started to come my way more frequently. I found myself going on several meetings a month and I became blind sided with this issue. How do I properly display my work in a simple and elegant way? The laptop wouldn’t cut it, too big and bulky, and how bad does it look to whip out a 17″ MacBook Pro during a meeting with a director and sift through your folders trying to find the latest export of that last short you just shot? It looks atrocious. Another issue I was having was with on-the-go productivity apps. I had left the iPhone in the dust for the T-Mobile G2 and discovered that while Android had it’s advantages at the core of it’s experience, it was seriously lacking on the app front. I didn’t have a proper screenwriting app and the note taking app left a lot to be desired (in the beginning). All of a sudden, I needed a tablet. View full post »
Posted in Android, Apple, Editorial, iPad, TechnologyTags: Android, Apple, books, Engadget, Honeycomb, iOS, iPad 2, iPhone, novels, reading, screenwriting, technology, This Is My Next
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i built that one