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I have finally assembled the components required to make better use of the Canon EOS 5D Mk11 HD video capture. This set up should allow greater stability, better focus action and view and a way better solution than just mounting on my stills tripod. I am looking forward to testing on some unsuspecting children. What [...]

Bruce from benallaonline.com.au gets up to speed with HD video. Includes 24 inch iMac, Canon 7D DSLR shooting 1080p video, loaded to Aperture 3 and edited in iMovie. Export at 720p and embedded from Vimeo upload.

Finally time for the Premiere release of Sarah Watts new film “My Year Without Sex” Petrina did the graphic design for the graphic slides that appear throughout the film. Much stuffing around with dog biscuits and the like in the photographic studio for quite a few weeks but the result was worth it. If you [...]

As Street view goes live in Australia I was sent this from Alan in The USA. It looks like the young bloke was on the way home from school as the Google van went past. Google Earth gets an update and now has Sun effects. Our 3D model now can appear as it would look [...]

The new 720p HD video screen at Federation square lit up on Friday with a slide show of graphics and upcoming acts. Design by Petrina and built by Phil, this is the result. More details about the Festival at Melbourne Jazz Fringe.

We may not answer the phone at the moment in a hurry as we are shooting some landscape images for the photography site. philipgreenwood.com.au

Thanks to Leonne who sent this image in of her new Trestle bridge photo now hanging in her dining room. Hi Philip Attached is a photo, of your photo in our dining room! It looks great and the photo doesn’t do it justice! However it will give you some idea! All ours friends admire it [...]

Now I am a Simpsons character. Have a go for yourself UPDATE: Ajay sent this one in. And this one from Michael Griffin: Carrie sent this one, now this is spooky.

Thanks to Carrie for shooting me on the set yesterday. I don’t get many of myself. Who’s gettin’ old?

Released a week or so ago, USTREAM provides a method of streaming live video and audio to a worldwide audience. According to Cris Pirillo, this is indeed a revolution as it allows bloggers and video bloggers to go live with text chat to their audience. I suppose with Skype you could have live interview and [...]

Good to see the photogeek podcast is finally online. Cameron talks about the imminent release of the Canon 1D Mk3 along with other discussion and news. Check out the site and let them know what you think.

This is a little job for Ringo, an artist from The StKilda Esplanade market. Ringo wanted to know if we could reproduce from an original oil painting, a color accurate reproduction to canvas using the wide format Epson printer. The 4800 pro uses 100 year archive pigment ink and also is amazing at this sort [...]

I received an email from a happy client today. Steve lives in Palm Springs and saw my landscape images online after spotting my website. After some discussion he ordered a print and had it delivered with the intention of getting a custom frame. Good to see it framed and up on the wall. Thanks for [...]

Gretag Macbeth have been leaders in the field of monitor calibrators for some time, so it was interesting to see their latest affordable calibration tool in action. The Gretag Macbeth huey is an entry level device for those who need to be color accurate for photography, video, web design or graphic design. At $240 it [...]