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Tips: Filming for Beauty

Matthew Rosen shares a few tips on how to nail that flat light, beauty, sitcom look. To get started, he places only one, main-light behind, and over the model's head, creating an accented hair light, that leaves her (temporarily) looking like a silhouette. One bounce card is then placed on her right and left side, thus bringing her back into light. The result is a flattering, soft look that leaves little to no shadow on her face. Matthew adds real value and shows us how terrible shows like "How To Get Away With Murder" and (maybe?), "Scandal", create that popular, prismatic, double-exposure, look. Just in…

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Breaking Wind: Drone Capability

After too many hours spent pre-rendering and editing, I present my drone reel. The following locations (in no particular order) are featured: Philadelphia, PA Chicago, IL Lexington, KY Louisville, KY Orlando, FL Seattle, WA Music by: Lettuce, song title "Phyllis"

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Phantom 4 Drone Editing: Behind The Scenes

This summer I bought a drone. After roughly 200 flights, I have recorded around 500 gigs of footage (mostly shot in 4K) which makes finding a reliable (primarily fast) hard drive important, if you plan to keep your sanity while editing (how and why a proper external/internal hard drive setup is necessary for editing 4K footage is another topic entirely). I decided to expeditiously produce and edit a piece that featured the best shots of the 200+ flights, but in this case, I define "expeditiously" as a couple weeks to painstakingly cleanup and edit footage. In this post, I'll cover what I've learned when it…

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