Here's a pic from the carnival...

posted by Brian @ 6:57 PM

Here's a result from that shoot I did recently:
























I can't make it that night as I'll be out of town but if you happen to catch this show, let me know how it went... I'm hoping to see one soon.
Brian

posted by Brian @ 7:31 PM

Rambling on a bit more about the 5D MKII, here's the official presidential photo which was shot on it (by Pete Souza.)


























As for me, here's one I took on the original 5D before I upgraded:

posted by Brian @ 10:11 AM

If you want to check out a test clip I shot:
http://www.vimeo.com/4127087 (password is carnival)
For something more complete, here's a 5DMKII clip from the official NIN videographer... (the link is "not safe for work" but it's pretty exciting, imho.)
The next pics I post will likely be from Dead Man's Carnival, who I was fortunate enough to shoot recently... they put on quite a show!

posted by Brian @ 9:01 AM

Just wanted to link to this interview with a Canon tech guy- some very interesting info on upcoming SLR developments.

posted by Brian @ 9:32 AM

Some quick images from the Recalcitrant/Saul Williams/Les Claypool/etc. show recently... I recommend clicking them for full-size:
























The first image is of Secret Chiefs 3... they're very good, and as you can see, quite bizarre.
The second pic is of Saul Williams, who strikes me as one of the most vital poets/performers around today. On top of being an incredible wordsmith, he's riveting to watch and hear. I only saw a couple songs and it was just great. He also helped pioneer new indie digital distribution on his last release w/Trent Reznor of NIN. Major props to my boys in Recalcitrant for having me along- hit up their website for some pics I shot of them @ the show.

posted by Brian @ 11:06 PM

Hey,
Just a quick update... the new camera is here... have an order in for a 32gb CF card so that should be quite a bit of HD video (I've heard an hour and a half.) I've been playing around with it a bit and am very happy, still holding out hope that Canon will update the firmware to give full manual control over the video modes... even if they don't though, the current video mode is pretty great. Also discovered there's a mini version of HDMI- who knew? So I have an order in for one of those cables to hook my camera up to HDTVs. Monoprice.com is such an awesome website.
Things are pretty busy at the moment and there's no sign they will slow down soon. I'm also changing apartments in the next couple months, so things may be sporadic around here for a bit, but I appreciate any hits this blog gets. My next step in improving things I think will be to get a nice small portable hard drive to carry all my photos on, so I can post more pics here regardless of whether I'm at home or not (currently I'm restricted to photos I have on my flash drive or online... a very small fraction of my actual catalogue.)
I'll probably check back in with some project updates soon, so until next time...

posted by Brian @ 11:02 AM