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Visual Serendipity 72. Soap Bubbles.

Young girl plays with soap bubbles in New York City during the summer.

  A very quick snap­shot that brought back a lot of won­der­ful child­hood mem­o­ries. This girl knows how to enjoy the Sum­mer in New York.

Amazon adds a new storytelling tool to its Studio arsenal.

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  Ama­zon Stu­dios was launched in 2010 to develop fea­ture films and episodic series. In a new effort to pack another punch to its arch enemy Net­flix, as well as increas­ing its orig­i­nal con­tent cat­a­log, the com­pany has rolled out the beta for “Sto­ry­teller,” a free online sto­ry­telling tool that con­verts scripts into sto­ry­boards. After upload­ing a script, Ama­zon Stu­dios is sup­posed to scan it and then iden­tify, match, and add scenes, as well as loca­tions and char­ac­ters from a library of thou­sands of char­ac­ters, props, and back­grounds. Wow!

How to fix our broken education system. Some thoughts.

education system

  For sev­eral weeks we’ve been seri­ously talk­ing about our edu­ca­tion sys­tem, and we’d like to share some of our ideas on the sub­ject. The cur­rent edu­ca­tion sys­tem is bro­ken, out­dated, and, dare I say it—dangerous. How did we arrive at this point, and what can we do to rem­edy the situation?

Visual Serendipity. Hearts and Tears.

Hearts and Tears

  Exquis­ite embroi­dered Hearts and Tears Drop Edg­ing hand­made the really old (turn of the cen­tury) way.

Discovering Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas: Visual Serendipity.

Cirque du Soleil Acrobats

  I recently met two acro­bats from one of the eight shows in Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas. A multi­na­tional spec­ta­cle, Cirque du Soleil uses the imag­i­na­tion, arts and cre­ative tal­ent to present a show like no other.

DSLR Video Shooter Interview; Panasonic GH3, Post NAB gadgets, backup solutions and more.

digital filmmaking

  Recently, we sat down for an inter­view with our friend Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter, a blog ded­i­cated to video­g­ra­phers and cin­e­matog­ra­phers that use HDSLR video for qual­ity sto­ry­telling. It was great to chat about NAB 2013, upcom­ing events, gear he have been using or test­ing like the Pana­sonic Lumix GH3, and share other use­ful dig­i­tal work­flow solutions.

How to quickly enhance your photography portfolio.

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  On my pre­vi­ous post (I’d rec­om­mend read­ing it first if you haven’t) I walked you through my per­sonal process to edit a large group of images into a more man­age­able port­fo­lio. Now is the time to enhance and fine-tune those “final” photos.

On editing photos and telling stories.

Eduardo Angel Photography Editing Images 04

  Wow! Our video inter­view with Pho­to­Shel­ter hit a nerve! We have received over a 100 emails and tweets with addi­tional ques­tions. That is awe­some! For the peo­ple request­ing the GH3 arti­cle, here’s the link, for the ones ask­ing about Cus­tom White Bal­ance for Video, here’s the link, for the ones ask­ing for addi­tional Light­room 4 Tips and Tricks, here’s the link (which includes 6 more links!), and for the rest, keep reading.

Visual Serendipity Week 69. Dreamy Landing.

Visual Serendipity Las Vegas Aerial View

  Another Visual Serendip­ity image taken with my phone. An inter­est­ing aer­ial view of Las Vegas as I woke up min­utes before land­ing. Noth­ing spe­cial, just pretty.

Is Canon following Adobe’s steps?

Canon EOS DIGITAL Solution Disk Suite

  Canon just released their “EOS Dig­i­tal Solu­tion Disk V28.1″ soft­ware suite. As usual, it con­tains the “Dig­i­tal Photo Pro­fes­sional”, “EOS Util­ity” and “Pic­ture Style Edi­tor” appli­ca­tions. So what’s the big deal? For the first time (as far as I can remem­ber) the Solu­tion Disk has been issued only on CDs, but this time it will be avail­able as a download.No con­spir­acy the­ory needed here. The real rea­son behind the online deliv­ery is that many new com­put­ers, includ­ing the lat­est Apple iMac (which is super fast and awe­some) no longer come with CD dri­ves, so we are all being forced to move to Read More »

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