Writing
The questions I get asked, answered once.
I was wrong about my own files
I published a claim about my own LUTs, then measured it properly, and had to go back and correct the page.
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My kids find the frogs
The macro setup is a light box, a log from a pet store and a probe lens. The hard part isn't any of that.
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The five tracks under everything I cut
On a 400mm shot the camera audio is wind and my own breathing. So the whole soundtrack gets built, and this is the layout I build it on.
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A lens that goes in the water
I swapped probe lenses. The new one gets submerged in Florida springs, and there's one thing about it I still can't do.
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The first frame nobody checks
Resolve puts a punch on the first and last frame of an export. On a folder of stock clips, that's a problem you find out about late.
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Doing it once is hard enough
Every asset needs a title, a description and keywords before anyone can find it. That's the bottleneck, and it isn't the shooting.
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You can't stabilise water
Why ocean footage defeats every stabiliser, and the only thing that actually fixes it.
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How I pack a RED for travel
Two loadouts, and one rule that decides between them.
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How I put Sony glass on a RED V-Raptor
Nikon buying RED changed what you can mount on one. This is the part nobody explains.
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I shoot 8K raw, and this is what it costs
The freedom is real. So is the storage bill.
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