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Flip Video Vlog: A Tale of Two Formats
The eternal question: how important is the equipment when you tell a story? When I was in the fledgling stages of photojournalism I would blame my equipment alot.
Flip Video Vlog: First Class Audio on a Shoestring Budget
For around $50 you can turn your iPod into the audio gathering device you need to make your Flip Videos a step closer to being truly cinematic.
Flip Video: DIY Windscreen + DIY No-Tripod Stabilizer, AWESOME!
Ran across this today as I searched for anyone online who had hacked the Flip Video to allow some kind of external microphone. Unfortunately I have not found such a hack as it would be tremendously useful to us. On … Continue reading
Putting it all together: an argument for using the Flip Video
Today I wanted to take my HD shooting skills and apply it to the Flip Video camera.
Flip Video: Camera Movements (aka avoiding the jittery dance of death)
Michelle had a good question about camera movement and shakiness: how do you move from one dynamic part of a scene to another part without insane shakiness (aka the jittery dance of death).
Flip Video: Overcoming the No-Zoom limitation Part 1
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Yesterday while shooting I saw Brian do this and thought: Ah-ha! The no-zoom problem may be solved (in part.)
Flip Video- Interviewing Techniques Part 1
The Flip Video camera has very important limitations. In order to get the maximum quality we can from this budget wonder of technology, it’s crucial to get close to your subject, watch your framing, be mindful of noisy environments and … Continue reading
Steve Ringman- Seattle Times, Day 1: Viaduct and Video
Today Brian Steel and I (Kirk Mastin) headed over to the Seattle Times to shadow Photojournalist Steve Ringman for the day. After meeting Steve and getting a brief tour of the Seattle Times Newsroom, we headed with Steve to the Alaskan Way Viaduct where a press conference was about to take place. Apparently the Viaduct is sinking into the ground and slowly falling apart. Now the question seems to be what will happen to the Viaduct in the near future: will it be fixed? will it be replaced? will the Viaduct be abandoned with only I-5 serving the Seattle commuter? The press was there to find answers.
Steve Ringman, Seattle Times Photojournalist.
Soon after arriving Brian and I huddled with the other media representatives as a press conference was called among the din of generators, water pumps and machinery. Immediately Brian and I realized that audio was going to be a big problem. The Flip camera has good audio if you are in a quiet room and can get close to your subject. With constant traffic and the din of machinery the audio was a mess. If we held the Flip camera within a meter of a subject’s mouth we could manage decent audio. Further away than that, not so much. Continue reading
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