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S2N Design logo/Cinema 4d r13

Just got my hands on the new version of Cinema 4d r13.

I wanted to try and see how efficient the new physical renderer was as apposed to doing all post in After Effects. The only thing I did in After Effects was layer the clips and add music and film burns.

I of course used the GSG light kit pro to light scene and threw in some particles for a little extra.


Conclusion:
The Depth of Field and camera attributes in r13 are awesome. I love the integrated global illumination in the physical render. All in all this could have been done faster if I had done some things like composite the background, and particles in AE, but for this one I wanted to be a purist.

This turned out beautifully even though it took a little extra time.

NSRA

For the past 3 years I've helped edit the 2 hour long National Street Rod Association (NSRA) DVD. Organization is key. But this year they wanted to change it up and give it a fresh look. So I packed the 5D, 7D and all my cool gear to go and shoot some magic in Louisville.

The event is from Wednesday to Sunday but I only shot Friday to Sunday. I still ended up with about 700 clips and 100+ gb of footage. I can safetly say I've had my fill of old cars.

I put together this little video of a few of the clips I shot along with some film burn effects (which may or may not be over the top)

Destin, Flori-da Win

It’s vacation season but I can’t help myself. I’ve started seeing the beauty in everything around if everything around was moving 300x faster.

I went on vacation where everyone from Memphis goes, Destin Florida. While staying at the San Destin resort I decided it would be a fun idea to wake my girlfriend up at 4:30am, drag her to the beach, set up my camera and sit for 2 hours. VACATION!!

We had to cut the first timelapse short because of the storm brewing. Which means we had to pack up quick and make a mad dash back.

Looking back now I have the same feeling I have every time I shoot a timelapse; I’m glad I had the patiece to sit there for that long. So I decided to make a little video putting together 3 of the timelases I shot.

 

Taylor Brown shoot

I got a phone call a few days ago from my friends at S2N to do a quick photo shoot for a client of theirs. They were updating their product order page and needed stills taken with the new labels that S2N developed.

They just happened to have a roll of white paper there and so I constructed a mini studio using the paper and one of their register stations. 

I taped the white paper over and bounced the flash off of it. The end results were pretty fantastic, and to be quite honest, look like illustrations.

 

 

JMU Off the Record - Julia Nunes

In November of 2010, my friend Katie (katiesinclair.com) and I went to Oxford, MS to see a Julia Nunes show. After being blown away but how funny and awesome she was at the ukulele we decided it would be worth the hour and a half drive down there. I of course brought my camera and took some decent stills.

A couple months later in January I got a lovely email from an editor at James Madison University;

Hey Casey!

My name is Katie Hirtz and I am the Editor in Chief of a new student run music magazine at James Madison University. The feature article and cover story for our first issue is on Julia Nunes. It's a long story, but I stumbled across some photos that you took of her at one of her shows and they're beautiful. I was wondering how you normally approach requests for using your photography. We have a limited budgeted, but obviously are willing to credit you. The magazine would be distributed at no cost to students on our campus, so we wouldn't be making a profit from your images in any capacity. Let me know what you think and if we can work something out.

I look forward to being in touch with you!

-Katie

Of course I was happy to give her download rights to all the still I took. Just yesterday Ms. Katie sent me a link to the issue of JMU Off the Record with my pictures.

"Friday" Joshua Pursley
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"If you're going to get down on Friday, make sure to memorize the calendar."

So my buddy, my pal, mi amigo Joshua Pursley (@joshuapursley) had an idea for a video to parody Rebecca Black's "Friday" video. So naturally he calls my cinematography expertise. At first I wasn't really sure what was actually going on but my job was to make it look pretty. Beat's by Philip Scilippa (Hivemynd)

This was shot with the Canon 5D and 7D. I used the Canon 24-105 f4 and Sigma 10-20mm f3.5.

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