Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Appreciation

It's always a pleasure and exciting point in your career and life when you meet someone that equally respects your craft and a great mentor as well. For the past three years I have been making the journey to the beautiful city of Chicago for a Motion Graphics conference, and it's one of the best things that I have done. If you aren't big on training and going to conferences within your trade, then you should reconsider.
Since I have been going to Chicago I have had the priviledge or working and training along with sone of the best in the business. Harry Frank, Nick Campbell, Mason Dixon to name a few. My very first year I met a gentleman from Detroit by the name of Elijah Lewis, Jr. Elijah is BIG in the audio game and he's worked with some of the heavyweights. Kelly Price, The Cheetah Girls, and many others. I also met Michael Azzariti of Blackbag Films who happens to be my mentor as well. He has truly shown me and helped me hone my early tabletop shoots. Not only is he a great mentor, but a great friend as well. You can check out his work http://www.blackbagfilms.com. Truly a master at his craft, and he has shown me the appreciation of tabletop production. IT'S NOT EASY! As a result of being mentored by Michael, I now cringe when I see local food commercials. Poorly designed concept of spots, bad lighting, no food and sometimes not enough food in the commercials. Unfortunately, it's an educational process when trying to convince or educate a client/potential client about why they need an effective and beautiful food commercial. It's very challenging when the bar is set so low for excellence, rather than the bar is raised for "how much" is this going to cost type of mentality. Thank you Michael for all that you have done and continue to do, and for all I'm glad that I met you my friend. One day we will work together on that much sought after tabletop job.


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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Beautiful day

South Florida is such a beautiful place. During this time of the year there are so many things happening in South Florida! From Miami to West Palm Beach there is so much to do. The Winter Music Conference in Miami, the Palm Beach International Boat Show, The Delray Beach Film Festival in Delray Beach. Sometimes it feels like you are living in paradise.


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The pursuit of great photography lighting and the choices.

Over the next two weeks I embark on making a purchase for photography lighting. The three contenders are ProFoto, Elinchrom and Alien Bees. This can be so confusing and cumbersome, but decisions must be made. As it stands the two frontrunners are ProFoto and Elinchrom. If only the decision were that simple.