Monthly Archives: April 2010

Queen Victoria in Sydney

MS Queen Vic­to­ria along­side in Sydney

I have just posted a new gallery of some shots of the Cunard Line cruise ship MS Queen Vic­to­ria on her recent visit to Syd­ney, Aus­tralia. For more infor­ma­tion on this beau­ti­ful ship, check out this Wikipedia entry, or the Cunard Line web­site.

Go take a look!

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My Top Three Adobe Creative Suite 5 Features

What’s In The Box?

So Adobe has announced Cre­ative Suite 5. There have already been some amaz­ing pre­view video’s, but, as always with Adobe prod­ucts, there will be the debate whether to upgrade or not. I am lucky enough to have Adobe Mas­ter Col­lec­tion CS4, but here are the top three fea­tures which will prob­a­bly push me down the upgrade path…

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DSLR Video — Welcome to the Future

“The Last 3 Min­utes” From Shane Hurl­but, ASC from Shane Hurl­but, ASC on Vimeo.

After watch­ing this video, all I can say is:

Wow!

My Canon 7D can also shoot High Def­i­n­i­tion 24P video, though com­ing from a pho­tog­ra­phy back­ground, I am strug­gling to catch up. New for­mats, new tools, new chal­lenges (i.e. have you tried to edit Canon 7D footage in Pre­miere Pro? That is a major chal­lenge for another post…) and new cre­ative decisions.

Then you see a video like this, and real­ize that even with all the right tools, you still have a moun­tain to climb ;-) The video capa­bil­i­ties on the cur­rent Canon 5D MkII and 7D are so strong that even the sea­son finale of House MD was filmed com­pletely on one.

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