‘The Cost’ 2nd pre-prod session wrapped up.

Thanks to this awesome team we’ve just had a successful pre-prod for my next short film – The Cost.

Tomorrow we’re doing a script  run-through with the actors. Amped up!

Testing Magic Lantern on my 7D

The few extra features Magic Lantern Alpha brings to the 7D transform this DSLR into a hybrid cinema video camera.

Some of my favourite features of this camera ‘hack’ are:

• Having a live Histogram and waveform
• Ability to select aspect ratio guides (cinematic wide anamorphic aspect ratio seen above)
• Focus peaking and zoom focus check, and of course
• Live audio meters

I’m working on a video to show some of these features and and why hacking your DSLR with ML is worth it…coming soon.

Make-shift studio

Since we're hosting a friend for 3 weeks I don't have the spare room as my studio.

So I brought the studio to the lounge. The setup & set-down effort is a bit much though.

Broken lens

Bad start to a shoot: I dropped my 7D and broke my nifty 50.

Camera got a dent but praise the Lord it still functions!

Covering a friend's wedding today

Taking photos @ Thabo's wedding & pushing the 5D mkIII to its boundaries (3200 ISO and beyond).

Errol Schwartz on 8ta adverts

It was very refreshing to  log on to Youtube today and be met with an advert featuring my friend Errol Schwartz.

Nice one Errol!

Sometimes it doesn't go according to plan

On Sunday we were scheduled to shoot a video with the HP Baxter media team and just as we finish setting up and are going through the script, security came to tell us we had 45min before we had to leave due to a show that was going to take place in the theatre...

The pain of setting this up for an hope them taking it down before using it.