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First Days in Vietnam
We touched down in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday night, around 11pm. Tara’s principal, Gary, was at the airport to meet us and our 14 duffel bags and 3 guitars. From the airport to our hotel in South...
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Final Cut Pro X… Part One: still plugging away at it.
I’ll say it: I like the way Final Cut Pro X works. I like the way it looks, the way it feels, how fast it loads up. I am excited about FCPX. I think good things are happening here. But many video...
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Final Cut Pro X… Part Two: I’m Sold
OK, I’m sold. Final Cut Pro X is a badass. I recently returned from the Philippines, where I took an Apple certification course in FCPX over the course of four days at a training center in Manila. Like...
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Gypsy News | Spring, 2013
What do I mean by “multimedia”? Check out the Gypsy Creative Spring 2013 Newsletter here! *I would post it directly in my blog but the CSS gets all screwy…
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First Foray into HDR Photography
On Thursday, I packed up my camera and a couple lenses, got on my motorbike, and headed downtown with the intention of shooting the Year’s Greatest Street Photography Series. Well, I also had to try on...
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HDR Photography Follow-Up
As promised, here are a few more shots from my early adventures in HDR photography. I am gradually getting the hang of this method and building a few little strategies here and there, both in the...
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New Micro-Doc: SSIS and the Cardboard Challenge, Part 1
First, if you haven’t seen “Caine’s Arcade”, please check it out now. It’s a great story about a 9 year-old boy who had almost more creativity than he could handle, and access to a ton of cardboard...
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New Micro-Doc: SSIS and the Cardboard Challenge, Part 2
This is my follow-up to a previous blog post I wrote, just after starting on this project. Background: Caine Monroy is a little boy who lives in Los Angeles whose dad owns an auto parts store. While...
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Organizing Your Horribly Disfigured Final Cut Pro X Project
One of the strengths of Final Cut Pro X is its comprehensive organization system. From tagging and grouping clips, to reconnecting offline media, it’s a pretty impressive setup. When I took the FCPX...
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360° VR Photography
Introduction to VR Somewhere between still photography and video lies what I believe to be an under-appreciated and under-utilized presentation format: 360° Virtual Reality (VR) Photography. (Yes, they...
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Affordable, Professional Time-Lapse Photography
What Is It? Time-lapse photography is effectively the opposite of slow-motion filmmaking. By shooting multiple frames of a scene at intervals and then stitching them together into a film/video, the...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of ISM
I had to share this video from the ISM Blog, because it gives you an idea of life and work around here—both with Gypsy Creative and ISM. It’s not always easy, but it’s always fun! ISM Video Blog #1...
View ArticleNew Underwater Video: Perhentian Islands, Malaysia
The conditions were not ideal, but I admit that I am pretty spoiled. Below are a few shots I got from Big Perhentian Island, off the eastern coast of Malaysia, just a couple weeks ago. Some stormy...
View ArticleCon Dao Islands, Part 1
I had the opportunity to travel to Côn Đảo Islands in April of 2016, to Côn Sơn Island (the largest in the Con Dao Islands Archipelago of Vietnam) with Saigon-based travel writer Dave Fox...
View Article360° Zip Line Video from Chiang Mai, Thailand!
If you know me well, then you know that flying over the rainforest canopy, 300 ft. above the ground, tethered to a single cable 2,400 ft. in length is not exactly my cup of tea. So you will have to...
View ArticleI’m Featured on Desktop Documentaries!
Earlier this year I heard from Faith Fuller, the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Desktop-Documentaries.com. Desktop Documentaries is a rgreat website that covers everything you need to know about...
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