Just a short note on the value of shopping around. It’s time to have my brochures re-printed, I’m duplicating an existing brochure, which is quite fancy tri-fold on heavy stock card. I sent a sample from my last print run to 7 local suppliers and here’s what I got back:
1) £340, 300 gsm silk
2) £430
3) £701, 280 gsm silk
4) £669.22, 350 gsm silk
5) £344, 350 gsm silk
So, the most expensive was twice the price than the cheapest. The quote I’m going for is number 5 – from Color Co in …
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I just wanted to comment on the many videos that are now turning up on the web using the 5D as the video camera and some of them are just brilliant.
Ignoring the content, just looking at the visual quality. The combination of big lens choice (usually wide aperture, low depth of field choice), the sharpness of these lenses compared to typical video cameras and the low-light shooting capability means you can create some stunning material.
We recently shot a small commercial promo for office …
So having described the setting fire to the dress sequence, here’s the drowning the dress sequence. This was a trial run before doing a real shoot for a client – and to be honest this was the one I was more concerned about because I know cloth in water can be a real pain.
Lou and I went to a local canal off the beaten path. The look I was going for was very moody – almost fashion. Throughout the sequence I’m using a speedlite – which in this case is …
Sorry for lack of posts, but I’ve been working flat-out on the build 12-14 hours a day – it’s quite time consuming and completely exhausting. I would have loved to have got contractors in to do the work, but that would have tripled my costs – way beyond my budget.
There’s also something very satisfying about being able to say “I made this”
Walls like glass
The only specialist I expect to use are a plasterer to skim the walls – who is half way through and is absolutely amazing. Firstly he …
