On set at a music video shoot with all my rented gear. The monitors were rented through LensRentals.com while the lights and slider were picked up from brick-and-mortar rental house CSI. Buying lights, a slider, video monitors and a gimbal for this shoot would have blown my budget, renting was only a few hundred dollars.… Continue reading A guide to renting camera gear
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10 Top Spring Templates for After Effects
Spring has sprung… or at least, it will soon! If you’re prepared for new beginnings, the smell of cut grass, and soft pastel colours, then you’ll love our spring-themed, professionally designed templates to help you make awesome videos this season. In this article, we cover a mix of After Effects templates available from Envato Elements… Continue reading 10 Top Spring Templates for After Effects
On-Camera Audio Recording: Mic Placement 101
Microphone placement is critical for capturing high-quality audio. What do I mean by microphone placement? Quite simply, it means where you decide to place the microphone. The goal in microphone placement and pretty much all audio recording is a high signal-to-noise ratio. Signal to Noise Let’s break that down. The signal is the thing you… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Mic Placement 101
7 Simple Projects for Premiere Pro: Quick and Useful Templates for Every Editor
You don’t have to create everything from scratch: use templates and preset packs to give your workflow a boost. Even experienced video producers can use a head start on projects sometimes. If you’re an Adobe Premiere user, you have tons of ways to save time. In this feature, we sample from the Premiere templates on… Continue reading 7 Simple Projects for Premiere Pro: Quick and Useful Templates for Every Editor
Tiny homes, digital nomadism, & life off-grid: Ideas to incorporate into your commercial photography
In 2020, IKEA joined forces with Vox Creative and Escape, an RV and tiny home builder, to build a mobile tiny home in hopes of promoting awareness around sustainable and affordable living. Complete with solar panels, kitchen surfaces made of repurposed plastics, and sustainably grown pine paneling, the house clocks in at just 187 square… Continue reading Tiny homes, digital nomadism, & life off-grid: Ideas to incorporate into your commercial photography
3 TikTok Strategies for Small Businesses
TikTok is the world’s fastest-growing social media network. Learn what makes TikTok unique and how it can help you build your business. The post 3 TikTok Strategies for Small Businesses appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.
New B&W film stock produces unique metallic/silver grey tones
CatLABS Boston, Massachusetts-based CatLABS has a brand-new B&W film stock available in both 35mm and 120 formats. A fine grain, ISO 320 film with wide tonal range, CatLABS X FILM 320 is available right now for $6.99 a roll. This is great news for analog shooters as film has been in short supply these days,… Continue reading New B&W film stock produces unique metallic/silver grey tones
This is the last thing a satellite sees before crashing into an asteroid
These are the final two complete images NASA’s DART spacecraft shot before making contact with the asteroid. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA successfully slammed a satellite into an asteroid yesterday, in a first-of-its-kind test of our planetary defense capabilities. Like something out of a blockbuster movie, the objective of the interstellar collision was to see if… Continue reading This is the last thing a satellite sees before crashing into an asteroid
A Golden Anniversary – 50 Years Of Samyang
Korean lens manufacturer Samyang is celebrating a huge birthday milestone and to celebrate, we’re taking a closer look at the ever-growing line-up of Samyang lenses. Plus, we have a Samyang AF 85mm f/1.4 FE II lens to giveaway!
Our evolving connection with food and how to visualize it in commercial advertising
According to research recently released by Oxford University, vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian diets aren’t only healthier, but in countries like the US, UK, Australia, and parts of Western Europe, they’re also cheaper. What’s more, researchers found that it would be possible to make sustainable and healthy eating affordable everywhere within the next ten years, as… Continue reading Our evolving connection with food and how to visualize it in commercial advertising