Happy shot
A little while ago I was visiting a good friend of mine and decided to take the camera with me and take a few shots of his pets. Some turned out good, some turned out .. not so good, but we had fun and got more experience in photographing pets. Honestly, who would have thought that they run and move so much and it's so hard to get them in the frame like you want to.. but than again if you got a trigger friendly finger you can get some unexpected shots.
Long story short, I got this little shot here which I really like a lot and it turns out that not just me. I decided to gave the pictures to my friend since they are his pets anyway and he placed the next one on some pet owners forums.
As you can see if you followed the link on my image above, it got a few votes in the pet image contest, reason enough to be a little bit happy, but that is not the explanation for the title at all.. no, this is a happy shot because.. well, just look at the image.
And if you want to see it larger you can check the shot on my flickr stream:
Zmurfu.
Photographing the landscape of oil
I'm a fan and regular watcher of short films on TED.com and just happen to stumble upon this little piece of work and presentation by Edward Burtynsky about the landscape of oil, photographing it and the energy crisis. As it involves photography and our world and it's future I simply felt compelled to share it and hope to increase the number of people this film touches.
Enjoy!
Betrayed, the short film shot with the 5D Mark II, trailer
Friend of mine and photography passionate showed me a nice short film trailer today. The film is called "Betrayed" and is shot with Canon's 5D Mark II Digital SLR camera.
On his blog, photographer Robert Caplin, who did the cinematography for the film, says:
I'm very excited to announce the launch of "Betrayed", a short thriller co-written and directed by Joshua Grossberg and starring Seth Gilliam (The Wire), PJ Sosko, and Cara Buono (The Sopranos). Betrayed, one of the first narrative works to be shot on the Canon 5D Mark II, follows husband and reporter James Vance (PJ Sosko) who mysteriously disappears, but not before leaving a cryptic video diary leading law enforcement to unravel the crime of his demise.
Betrayed was co-written and directed by Joshua Grossberg, who according to IMDB is also writer and producer for "A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home" documentary, following Katrina in September 2005.
What can I say about the short film from the trailer is that the images are incredible! And so they should, considering the great camera which the 5D Mark II is and most likely the nice lens sets that Robert Caplin and Joshua Grossberg could put together. Best if you watch it yourselves and make your own opinions on the matter (share if you dare).
If you want to learn more you can visit the official website at betrayedshort.com and read Robert Caplin's photography blog.
Enjoy!
The Nikon competitor:
"Vincent Munier - Summer Variations - Nikon D3s"