Dust Storm

This was on Gizmodo, I posted it on Facebook, but I'll post it here too. Craziest thing I've ever seen, just totally insane.

High Fashion Crime Scenes

So when we shot that cellphone commercial thingy for Producing Class, Kyle took a picture of Shanna all bruised and mascara-runny-y and I made a crass joke about Kyle doing high fashion abused women pictures...

well this photographer, Melanie Pullen took it a little further with "High Fashion Crime Scenes".

I thought some of it was really cool... though oddly disturbing.

you can see the rest at her site... MelaniePullen.com

A Couple of Videos...for laughs.

102 Year Old Lens

From: Cinema5d.com

This is a circa 1908 Wollensak 35mm F5.0 Cine-Velostigmat hand cranked cinema camera lens. its as cute as a button...literally...



I am a DP and photographer, 90% of the time i use my 5D for stills, professional and not. I have an upcoming photography project that needs a vintage look. Initially i was going to shoot it on 4x5 large format film, but found the equipment and processing cost prohibitive. My friend, a Russian lens technician, who loves nothing more than to frankenstein equipment, was assisting me in building the 4x5 camera. After we abandoned the 4x5 solution, i put the project on back burner. This morning he called me into his store on NYC. He has something for me.... He found in a box of random parts, hidden inside anther lens this gem. A circa 1908 ( possibly earlier) 35mm lens. Still functioning, mostly brass, and not nearly as much dust or fungus as one would think after sitting in a box for over a hundred years. This lens is a piece of film history people, and at this point rare beyond words. So i say to him, "Wow... what do you have in mind?" he smiles, and says, ( in the thickest russian accent you can imagine) " i can make this fit EF you know..." my eye twinkled, and then 6 nail biting hours later,he had it finished. My Russian Lens technician is a mad scientist and he took what sounded like an angle grinder to the lens to make its clear the flange distance and the mirror....... This lens' value is unclear. its sort of on loan. It's the only lens of its kind on a 5D... or any digital for that matter.

Its funny while i was shooting these, EVERY photographer i saw stopped and asked me about the lens... it just looks so goofy on there.

Check my site for more photography, and videos. http://www.timurcivan.com

All of these images are straight Jpegs from the camera.












I will shoot some footage with it, and post it here in the coming days.

enjoy folks.

7D 1000 fps from Oton Bačar on Vimeo.
7D slow motion test footage of my friend doing bmx tricks.
"Everything was shot in 720p 60fps.
Edited with Twixtor in After Effects.

The Canon 7D and 5D Mark II can shoot HD video at 60 fps. But with an After Effects plug-in called Twixtor, you can slow the action down to 1000 fps, no expensive camera equipment required."

This is amazing. I need to buy this software now.

HDRI Video w/ 2 Canon 5DMKII's

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

So anyone up for filming something using this?

Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test