Vlog

Cláudia and I worked on a puzzle (purchased from a thrift store) as a way to pass some time. Just for fun.

Had the pleasure to present at the JEA Fall Convention in Minneapolis a few weeks back. While there, I helped out Andy Nelson of Kansas State University with a digital photography class. How can I NOT shoot the class on iPhone video, especially since this was the topic of one of my presentations.

Spent the morning over in Camarillo, Calif., filming the 9th annual open house of The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. What a place!!! I had no idea there was such a collection here in Ventura County. Nonetheless, I wanted more practice with editing a daily video on the iPhone. I used 1st Video again but this time used the FilMIC Pro App to record the video. Very nice addition to the app collection. Took me a lot less time to edit this piece, about 3 hours. Still a long time but it’s nice to be able to edit without a computer and FCP. One complaint about 1st Video is no ability to color correct, as you’ll see in this video. Mercury Vapor lights, the worst!

Last weekend I had the opportunity to hang out with my Humane Society of Ventura County friends at one of their annual fundraisers, Cats in the Canyon & Hounds in the Hollow at Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura, Calif. It was a perfect opportunity to shoot another daily video on my iPhone, this time though ALSO TO EDIT it on the iPhone. Thanks to Ray Meese at the VC Star for turning me on the the iPhone app, 1st Video by VeriCorder. There are some things to work out, like making sure the camera is MUCH more steady and practicing more on the app itself. It’s amazingly deep but complicated – it’ll just take time to practice. I cut a version in FCP to compare the two, not much difference! The version here is the iPhone version. Enjoy.

While working on the film about my mother, I shot this sequence waiting for her to come home. It wasn’t until I got the footage logged and looked at it did it occur to me to cut it into something funny. Just for laughs.

Here’s a film I’ve been working on since March about my mother and her history with family dogs. Runtime is 13 minutes.

July 2010: Shaun’s Birthday Party (recorded on iPhone, edited on iPhone with iMovie)

May, 2011: A time lapse while riding my bike to work on a Friday morning (shot on iPhone).

January, 2011: A time lapse test of the constellation Orion streak across the night sky, shot over a 12-hour period from the roof of my house.

October, 2010: Family carves pumpkins for Halloween (recorded on an iPhone).