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DSLR aliasing: not seeing the forest for the trees

12.4.09 @ 12:55PM Tags : camera, cinematography, dslr, red

I unpacked my brand new Canon 5d Mark II a few months ago and excitedly clambered onto my Manhattan rooftop to put it through some tests. Within minutes I discovered the nasty aliasing artifact seen above, wherein the uniformly brown brick building down the block seemed to have a pattern of gray concentric circles overlaid across its surface. I knew about, and expected, the DSLR aliasing problems, and even wrote that I had some ideas about how to defeat them (on the rooftop that day, I tested several contrast and softening filters in an attempt to defeat the oversharpened look, to little avail). But I knew what I was getting into, and for the price, I’ve learned to (more than) love the one I’m with. More »

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RADAR Season 2: Google Maps Road Trip

12.3.09 @ 3:17PM Tags : lanceweiler, radar, reel, wbp, workbookproject

The second episode of RADAR that I directed and DP’d with Zack is live today. Check out the episode below, and stay tuned to RADAR for future episodes on cutting-edge arts and culture. More »

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Re-enrolling nofilmschool

12.1.09 @ 12:20AM Tags

I started this site in 2005 as a personal blog, mostly focused on chronicling my own efforts to get myself from North Carolina to New York City and start a film career there. Those goals have either been achieved or unfulfilled, depending on your definition of “career” and the particular point in time we’re talking about (I had my own place in Manhattan for three years; now, I’m out on my own, couch-surfing and looking to move to Brooklyn). Whatever the four-year evaluation (am I “graduating?”), I’m definitely much more “in” the industry now, and it’s time to turn this site into something useful for others instead of a navel-gazing, public journal. More »