The past saturday, Cecilia and I got married. Despite illness, nervousness and other ess:es, everything went as planned – or even better than planned. The pre-wedding-film above was shot and edited by dear friend Martin Botvidsson. Hire him.
This easter I had the opportunity to try to make my very first timelapse photography session. This meant placing my Canon 7D on a tripod in a forest in the middle of the night, letting it take images at certain intervals. Assembling the still images resulted in this little short video. It’s really amazing to see the rotation of earth.
A Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all. This little video is something I shot yesterday whilst freezing my parts off on the balcony. Directing the two gnomes must have looked quite entertaining, and I could almost hear Cecilia laugh from the couch inside our apartment.
Of course, a christmas card wouldn’t be anything without a matching tune, so I had to compose my own version of Santa’s Coming To Town. Enjoy!
So, I went along and got myself a new Canon 7D. The mere thought about having the ability to shoot full 1080 HD video in 24 or 25 fps, using the good old canon lenses was just too tempting. The other day me and friend Martin Botvidsson took a stroll (or rather, stood still) in the central parts of Stockholm. Me with the 7D and Martin with his 5D mkII.
Now, the film is pretty boring in itself, mainly due to the fact that I didn’t plan anything but just tested the camera in low light conditions. Everything is shot handheld or ‘placed-camera-on-surface’ in 24p with a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens (left wide open). Shutter speed is 1/50 and ISO set to 500. No grading/coloring altered in post. The soundtrack is something I whipped together some month ago in Logic 8 when being ill at home. The best part in the video is probably the last 3 seconds (the end-credits or whatever that animation is called). I made that in Cinema 4D & After Effects).
For the next 7D experiment I’ll try to think out some sort of script/storyboard, and *then* shoot video. Or maybe not.
A few months ago, me and Cecilia visited dear friend David Bicho and his utterly happy companion Martin Botvidsson in their studio to shoot some images. Cecilia wanted to try out the model business, and I wanted to learn more about studio photography. I’ve been very slow in actually doing something with the resulting images, but perhaps soon it’s time to tweak some levels in Adobe Lightroom.
Here’s a small wip-sample of how one of the images turned out.
My attempt to learn 3D is slowly making progress. Here’s a screenshot from what I achieved so far. You can probably see what the end result is going to be? No?
Yesterday evening I started to model a vehicle to learn another 3D-software – Modo 401. It’s far to early to tell wheter I’ll succeed in actually learning enough, but if inspiration and time merge in a fashionable way it might all be good. What kind of vehicle it is? You’ll see. Definitely maybe.
BonZai 3D
A few days ago I stumbled on some news about a new 3D-tool. Appearently, creators of Form•Z – AutoDesSys – had released a first version of a lightweight modeller called BonZai 3D. The word was out that this software should compete in the same arena that Google’s SketchUp does with push/pull-modelling. I’m no die-hard 3D expert at all myself, and I have always been very frustrated whenever I’ve used software like Cinema 4D and tried to create bevelled edges, booleans etc. It simply just doesn’t work to model stuff the way I want to do it. If you for example want to create a dice with nice and smooth rounded edges around the dice as well as around the edges of the small holes on each side, you have to use quite extensive cutting & carving with the knife tool. Sure, you can use a boolean to create the dips on the dice’s sides, but you won’t be able to round the edges without having lots of artefacts of ugly edges. Read more.. »
