Category: inspiration
-
Jackson Falls October 2019 Climbing trip
Something I love about photography and filmmaking is that it can enhance our other passions. In fact, our other passions inspire and grow our craft.
-
One frame – Joe and Claudia
The average final run time of my produced wedding video package is about 2.5 hours of finished footage. Each second of that video contains 24 individual images. If you do the math, that adds up to over 215k images minimum! Lets talk about one.
-
Influential Frames: Ida
This is a weekly installment where I share a few standout frames from a beautifully shot film, and how they will influence my own camera work as a small/no-budget solo professional videographer.
-
Wedding film inspiration – Diego Serrano
I have three weddings in the can for 2016, and many more to come. In preparation I watched and took some notes on this amazing wedding video by Diego Serrano. First two things I love right away are the length and the music. Many couples I speak with definitely want their highlight film to be…
-
Vlog Re-Launch and new format
When I first went full-time as a videographer and stay-at-home parent, I launched a daily vlog. My idea was to release a daily video of my life, before my professional work started picking up. My goal was to develop a solid work ethic, as-well as getting a lot of practice with my tools, but quickly became…
-
Wedding – PC
Right now I’m booking a lot of wedding gigs, and I’m really enjoying that kind of work. It is fun, creative and I get to tell a love story. It really is a great gig, and I sincerely feel artistically fulfilled by this kind of work. It is also an industry with heavy heteronormative leanings.…
-
Wedding Prep – Mark Keysor
Tomorrow I have my first wedding gig of 2016, and I want to start some new habits to keep improving my work. The first thought was, I should study the work of some peers the day before to note some ideas or techniques to try; the second thought was to document and share what those…
-
#Teamtrishwilliams *Update
On October 16th, 2014, I did a same-day shoot and edit to help a friend of a friend, raise money to support his wife’s recovery from a rare brain disorder called: Normal pressure hydrocephalus.
-
Evolve, revise and repeat (100-day vlog challenge)
A few weeks back, my day job cut me loose. Frankly, my performance was struggling and it felt like my skills as an engineer drafter were exponentially dissipating, while my skills with my camera were rapidly expanding. This was not some overnight switch, this was 6-years of small steps to get where I’m at today. Where am…
-
Annica
This is an important video to me. A month before this we had already camped at the same place and I shot a great video that I loved. A thought occurred to me, “I just won’t shoot video this time, it’s all the same and I can just take a break”. But I didn’t want…