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Jason from Makr has the sweetest backyard mini. I put the Canon t2i in a few spots while he ripped @ 60fps. music = jonsi.

Thanks everyone who is visiting from Scott Kelby’s blog. I have been responding to emails as quick as I can. I also appreciate all of the kind words given. The blog is up here for those who do not know what I’m talking about.
In the last entry I said I’d post an image of my new studio space. Well I created a self portrait for the Kelby Blog in the studio(below) so you can pretty much get an idea of it. Not huge, not tiny… just right for my studio needs. I have not taken a self portrait in quite some time and I always forget how silly it feels setting the timer and running out to the mark just in time for the shutter to sound.

fun facts… camera I’m holding is totally a prop. never use it. Octabox/brollybox was set off just or effect… I didn’t really need to light the wall.

So I finally received my new camera this afternoon and played with it for the remainder of the day. What I found to be the most fun was the video portion. It is somewhat overwhelming having something so capable of so much in my hands. It is interesting trying to film in different lighting just to see just how the sensor reacts. I only have one nitpick about the video portion and that is the low shutter speed. Mainly I want to shoot wide open with this camera and it is only really achieved in low light. I didn’t bother to push the ISO past 6400 as it is just acceptable and really only marginally better than the original 5d from what I can tell. It also looks like I’ll be buying new batteries since the many old ones I have aren’t compatible. All in all I’m very pleased with all of the little upgrades and happy to have such a bump in resolution. Watch the video below for some silly nonsense clips I threw together this evening. I wasn’t trying to be serious and I did tell my friend Cole Nesmith to give me a 90210 vibe. 

…So after writing this and continuously thinking about it I did some digging to see what other people thought about the video coming from the mark 2. I would watch short clips I took and while they look high quality and interesting something seemed not so cinematic. Of course one has to remember this is 30 fps and not 24 which is one of the big reasons it doesn’t have that film feel. That might be the main reason but it has a certain appeal that looks good to me but strange at the same time. The fact that the last video camera I owned was when they first went digital leaves me little to compare this to. I suppose what I’m really wondering is how good is the video? The Vincent Laforet video is proof of the cameras strength in low light… but is that it? Are cinematographers buying this camera to shoot with? I really don’t want to sound like a gear-head but this just has me very curious.

one more thing…my website was a featured example in Laura Brunow Miner’s BLOG I’d like to thank her and the talented Corey Hickey for that.

PIZZA ROLLZ! ..ha

So my pal Wes and I were in PA shooting a wedding(samples soon) and we took a detour on the way back to the airport just to check out the countryside. I had rented the 135 f2 L specifically for this trip and wanted to post some shots I took with it as well as give my thoughts on it. I won’t go into too much detail for if you need serious hard data than visit thedigitalpicture. So here is my verdict. I am going to buy this lens. It is completely usable at F2, responds quickly, has sweet milky bokeh and is sharper than anything I’ve tried. I made the mistake some time ago of purchasing the 200 f2.8 L… I may have received a bad copy or maybe it was just too much tele to handhold, but the images from it couldn’t touch the ones made with the 135. OK so here are a few shots I took at some farm Wes and I stopped at. The last one wasn’t shot with the 135 but from the same trip, just the night prior. 

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