RSS feedToday is the first day of my second year of videoblogging. 156 videos in my first 12 months, that’s a video every two and a bit days.
To celebrate, I’ve decided to start shooting in widescreen. I’ve been gradually increasing the resolution and quality of my videos for a while now, and this just seemed like the next logical step. It wasn’t until I shot in widescreen that I realised why people probably aren’t using it more.
For starters, autofocus. What’s the point in being offset within the frame, if you’re out of focus? The solution is to either not to use distant backgrounds, or to set the manual focus before shooting, which means you can’t then pan out to an autofocused background. Thus more edits. Maybe if the camera had an easier way to shift the camera’s focus point with a simple finger or thumb press?
The second problem is that with my camera at least, while widescreen is encoded anamorphically, the CCD records in letterbox, effectively zooming in each shot. The result is that you need to hold the camera slightly further out than a regular 4:3 shoot, which for me was pretty much at arms length, causing my arm to tire more quickly.
An Interview With jadelr and Cristina Cordova
An interview with Chasing Windmills.
Waldo the long whiskered cat, lives near my girlfriend’s place. Well I don’t know if that’s his or her name, but I think it appropriate, and that’s all that matters. Brought to you once again by the Richard BF Department of Nothing Important to Say.
What probably started as a bit of a gag, has turned into a wonderful left wing institution, or at least should do. Drinking with Bob is a daily rant about (mostly American) stupidity, as a videoblog. But recently the topics have been turning to what the U.S. refers to as liberal or progessive issues, and critiques of popular media, a perfect mix. The one that triggered me to post this, is about Exxon turning a US$37 billion profit for the year. That’s just plain fucked.
Not a stray, but a cat I found out the back of my place the other day. He had a fake diamond studded collar which I found out during the shoot said “Sigmund”. So Sigmund it is. See if you can spot the videoblogging theory in this post.