I will be one of the Keynote speakers a the “Collision Conference” in Los Angeles next Saturday. I hear that there are still a few spots available. This should be a very interesting conference that brings together both still photographers and videographers to discuss what I like to call the new “HD-SLRs” such at the Canon 5D MKII.
I for one look forward to meeting many of the people that I know will be attending – and to hearing Rodney Charters (ASC, CSC) and Shane Hurlbut (ASC) speak – the two have been on the forefront of digital cinema in terms of applying new technologies to major productions and motion pictures.
For more information please got to the ImageMechanics site here.
There is more information on the conference agenda below: Read the rest of this entry »
Downtown Los Angeles - 5D MKII Infrared image with 24mm Tilt Shift Lens- ©2009 Vincent Laforet (5D MKII converted to infrared by www.irdigital.net )
We’ve made it to Los Angeles – and all is going absolutely great. I started the day on a music video set this morning (the dressing room upstairs was set up in a production studio where S&M movies are shot – complete with Y shaped beds suspended from the ceiling with chains – definitely felt like “LA”) and later in the afternoon I was helping out a friend with some time lapse photography for an Audi commercial being shot in downtown Los Angeles.
I’ve been meeting some really cool people out here – many of them just as fascinated as I am with new gear and things that “have never been done before.” The shot to the left is a digital infrared shot with a 5D MKII and the new 24mm T/S from Canon from this afternoon.
On a personal note, my daughter Eliana Lanai Laforet (aka “LaLa”) was born seven weeks ago and is absolutely amazing. We’re almost done unpacking and we’re really liking the vibe in Manhattan Beach – I hear it’s rained 15 out of the last 19 days back in New York City!
Anyway – I do plan to start posting again here now that things are settled down a bit – but I suggest you subscribe to this blog from this point on – as you’ll be automatically notified when something new is posted.
Downtown Los Angeles - after sunset - Canon 24 mm Tilt Shift lens - ©2009 Vincent Laforet
The long and short of it is that between the move, the new baby and work – I’m finding less and less time to post regularly. The other issue is that I’m finding that many of the new jobs / productions I work on don’t really allow me to post for weeks or months until they’re completed – just something that goes with the territory and is expected of course. By the time I’m cleared to share photos/clips/info, I more often than not find myself working on something altogether new and forget to write about what I did weeks ago. I’ll try to get better at this. For example, today’s production mounted an Arriflex 50mm Anamorphic lens to a 5D MKII – it was a pretty amazing sight! I’d love to share some pix of the rig or even some of the footage with you of course – but can’t for obvious reasons (the commercial has to come out first!) So stay tuned – or more to the point: subscribed.
Note: The Canon 5D MKII that took the first image was converted to IR by www.irdigital.net
Following yesterday’s post – I found it interesting that when I clicked on an image on Gawker.com – it led back to the Life.com / Getty Images site. The words “For personal non-commercial use only” were clearly put on the bottom of the linked image. Although I do not know if Gawker paid to use this image – I highly doubt it. If they had I’m sure that the disclaimer would not be there. hmmm…
As I mentiond – Life.com encourages the use of their images on blogs, e-mail, and social networking sites “for free.” As you can see Gawker runs ads on their pages… so clearly they are a COMMERCIAL publication as they derive revenue from those ads. They should be paying to use this image.
While the usage rights are very clearly spelled out in their terms of service – I think this goes to show how dangerous printing those words “free” can be… Read the rest of this entry »
