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I take a look at The Orphanage over at Blunreview.com.
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A lot of people are hurting during this recession, but that doesn't stop people from getting married.Posted by Martin:
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I am not a comic book geek. I have never been a serious collector of comics. I say that to define my own expectation of Wolverine. X-Men 2 was an excellent comic book movie, I even included it in a top ten list. [...]Posted by Martin:
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Via Engadget.
I love developing and trying to find ways to improve my home theater. But I've been recently researching ways to increase the ways of lowering my energy consumption, but this video by Home Theater Specialists of America shows an example of using solar panels to [...]
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I have updated my new blog with two new Blu-Ray disc reviews of Role Models and Kill Bill Vol. 1.Posted by Martin:
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Okay, I'm into posting trailers at the moment. But I love Pixar stuff. I wasn't sure what to think before. But now I am officially happy.
Other Pixar posts:
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Apparently this is an internet only trailer for Harry Potter. I am getting more excited about this movie the more clips I see from it.Posted by Martin:
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I was recently asked by a former client to make a VHS copy of their wedding. Grandparents didn't have a DVD player.Posted by Martin
Casino Royale 2
Bond returns, and for the first time in its 22 movie history, he returns as a true sequel, to Casino Royale, and not as a individual episode. Consequently the movie has a very different feel from previous Bond films. [...]
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With such a good summer for movies and a lot of them from comic books. I'm not a serious comic book geek, they are not my strength, but I do like the movies though. To make this list I don't include movies from "graphic novels." These are classic [...]
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I have two new prints up for sale this week. These are of the lighthouse in Manteo, North Carolina in the Outer Banks.
A portion of this auction goes to support Habitat for Humanity.
Click on the images to check out the auctions.
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This is only my second YouTube video. I need to upload more simply for the practice. My compression skills are lacking. As an event videographer 99% of my videos go out on DVD.
For those from Woodland Heights here is the YouTube video. (I may try and make [...]
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I will be at the Richmond Bridal Show at The Richmond Convention Center on Sunday August 3rd. If you print this blog post up and bring to me at table 203, and sign a contract, you will receive 10% off any bridal package worth $1000 or more.
Hope to [...]
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I new this was coming but I wasn't expecting it until the end of the end. But Lightroom 2.0 has been released.
There are several new or enhanced features:
A few to mention are
I'm most interest in the Volume Management being able [...]
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I have added two new templates at my store. You receive six Photoshop files formatted for Adobe Encore. You receive a main menu template and a submenu template sized for fullscreen NTSC, widescreen NTSC, and 1920x1080 for full HD projects. I also offer full money back guarantees [...]
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The X-File:I want to Believe
Grade: D-
Roger Ebert wrote in his review of The X-Files: I want to believe that you don't have to be familiar with the show to understand what it is going. In a way that may [...]
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The Dark Knight
Grade A:
At this point The Dark Knight is beyond review. The blogosphere has been singing it's praise with no real negativity I've seen. I just saw it and it is an incredible movie, even my wife made note of [...]
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Hell Boy II: The Golden Army
Grade: B+
I really liked the first HellBoy, it was quite original and introduced me to the HellBoy comic.
The first movie introduced us to great characters and spent a lot of time on having you enjoy the [...]
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Wall*E
Grade A-
For me reviewing a Pixar movie can really become reviewing Pixar itself. How they keep making such good movies should be a case study for filmmakers, creative types, and frankly anyone in business. To keep making such work of such [...]
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I mentioned in a previous post that I have opened a Lulu store for selling Encore DVD templates. For the longest time when using Encore I used the basic templates that came with the program. But after awhile I wanted things more original and began designing my own [...]
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Because I create my own wedding DVDs I also create my own DVD menus. I have opened a store on Lulu.com for just this purpose. I have just published my first theme. You get six menus, all based on the same design, you get two wide screen menus [...]
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I have put up new wedding templates designed for Encore. These are sized for 4:3 NTSC and PAL projects.
[Update: July 6: I have started a new store to offer menus through download. Click here to check it out. Also be sure to [...]
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Grade: D
I saw this mess on Saturday. I've been too disappointed to even approaching writing about it. I've read the Talk Back on Aintitcool, I am not on the lukewarm side of this mistake.
Unless you like to [...]
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I'm trying something new. I've created ten menus in Photoshop CS3 for use in Encore CS3 and I am selling a CD of them this week on eBay. Since they are Photoshop files, they should work in any authoring format that accepts layered Photoshop files. Click here [...]
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I have some new photographs up in my Ebay store. Sale of these prints support Habitat for Humanity.
Click on the images purchase a copy.
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This video podcast comes from Above TV, which I am finding to be an incredible resource. This podcast teaches the basics of the edit in Photoshop command in Lightroom. It will also teach you how Lightroom handles your original file when editing.
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Lightroom 1.4 has been fixed and is now ready on the Adobe site. According to the Lightroom Journal blog the issues have been fixed.
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Adobe TV has just launched and I am very much impressed, nay!, in love with this so far.
Here is a great video on Premiere Pro CS3, which is my editing weapon of choice, and the NATIVE editing of Panasonic's P2 format. Check it out!
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I'm starting a new photoblog to link with this blog. The point of the photoblog is just that. Photos. I hope each week will be a different theme.
Thanks for checking it out.
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Here is another video from behind the scenes of the next Bond movie. I'm liking this Reelzchannel site.
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I recently have begun working with Adobe Lightroom. I upgraded to 1.4, but Adobe just recently removed that update from their site. And according to Adobe itself you need to uninstall 1.4 and go back to 1.3 until they fix 1.4.
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Now for complete advertising.
I've been working on an Amazon aStore to complement this site. In honor of the end of the format war, click here to see my Blu-Ray section!
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The Movie: B
The first Elizabeth was made nearly ten years ago, I guess I find that hard to believe because I was in college at the time. That movie was a classic, the sequel Elizabeth-The Golden Age is [...]
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In this podcast Justin talks about using a curves preset to get a nice cross processed look. You can visit his website at http://www.photoshopquicktips.com.
You can also see other tutorials here.
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In this episode Justin shows how to make keyboard short cuts for adjustment layers in Photoshop CS3. A much needed tip in my opinion.
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I am such a big fan of Casnio Royale, that I can't wait for November for the next 007 offering.
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Here is a quick video by Justin Seeley on touching up photographs in RAW format. Which is important because this is nondestructive editing.
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This seems to be a new trend. Make movie out of a book, but break it into two movies.
This is how The Hobbit will be done, and now apparently the last Potter movie will be done the same way.
Something inside of me cynical says [...]
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I went to see Jumper on a whim at last minute outing with the wife. I should have saved this for a rental. I was hoping that a movie with Hayden Christiansen and Samuel L. Jackson would be very cool.
It was so close.
Unfortunately [...]
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Well it's been official for about week. The format war is officially over, HD-DVD is not going to be supported anymore.
For us event producers means it will make it easier to sell high def projects. Why? Because now more people have Blu-Ray players in their homes, that number [...]
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I got a good response for this promotion the last time I offered it a couple of months ago, so I want to start it up again.
So here is the deal. I will give you FREE digital photography of your wedding when you purchase a video package [...]
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I have put up my Canon Digital XT on eBay. Click here for the auction.
The XT still works great but I recently upgraded to the 30D
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I noticed these two tidbits from Bill Hunt over at The Digital Bits.
Ouch.
Put a fork in this format war, it is done.
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Movie Grade: B
This movie is on my list of movies to see in 2008.
Small video cameras have single handedly created a whole new genre, it began with The Blair Witch Project and is growing here with Cloverfield.
Cloverfield tells the story [...]
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In the post I made the point that DRM just creates more formats than Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Itunes, Zune, Amazon, Netflix, all [...]
As a new year post here is my list of movies that I currently most interested in seeing in the new year of '08
1. Cloverfield
This looks more and more interesting as we get closer to the release date. A 21st century update of the monster movie.
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In my last post about NPR's report on the Blu-Ray gains in the market I got a comment about broadband downloads being the real future and that the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war is pointless.
Here is why I disagree with that idea.
1. DRM
Looking at iTunes [...]
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NPR has done a quick piece of reporting from CES. They take on a favorite topic of bloggers The Format War.
Their take Blu-Ray wins because of the amount of content. I've been saying this for quite a while.
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The guys over at Coffee and Celluloid have a funny post on spooling film. I remember learning to do that ten years ago. I am certain I couldn't do it now. Over the last several years I have shot more events then anything else, not really [...]
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Sony has put together some of the best ideas of sub $10,000 professional camera manufacturers into two cameras, the HVR-S270U and HVR-Z7U.
In these two cameras are great ideas:
And [...]
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I found this video through Little Frog in High Def. This is a well done video on the reasons behind the writer's strike. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Yes it is true. I am offering free digital wedding photography to those that sign up for a wedding videography package worth $1000 or more.
I am doing this to begin developing my wedding portfolio. I have been shooting wedding videos since 1996, and I want [...]
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It is well known now that Toshiba has put out an HD-DVD player for less than a $100 at Walmart. I have to admit than I've even considered purchasing one. (If you are new to this blog I am a Blu-Ray supporter.)
As a business owner I couldn't [...]
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My wife and I have moved. Therefore my internet connection must be made as difficult as possible to obtain. In an effort to circumvent the monoploy of Comcast I again tried to get Clearwire. According to the guy at Best Buy, where my new house is, isn't in [...]
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Revver video just turned a year old recently, and has also passed out a million bucks. So what? Well, obviously I post a lot of videos from Revver, both for the CrimeTime webseries and Photoshop tutorials. (In fact I have a whole category called Revver videos!)
Revver [...]
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Revver video just turned a year old recently, and has also passed out a million bucks. So what? Well, obviously I post a lot of videos from Revver, both for the CrimeTime webseries and Photoshop tutorials. (In fact I have a whole category called Revver videos!)
Revver [...]
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Here is another great episode of Crime Time, by FutureThought.tv. You can see the previous episode here.
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Here is another great episode of Crime Time, by FutureThought.tv. You can see the previous episode here.
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Here is another episode of Crime Time. Check out the last episode here. And check out their website here.
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Here is another episode of Crime Time. Check out the last episode here. And check out their website here.
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Grade B+
Shoot'em Up makes no bones about it, it is about violence. But maybe I am so numbed to violence in the movies that I did not come away with the idea that this was the most violent movie I have ever [...]
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Grade B+
Shoot'em Up makes no bones about it, it is about violence. But maybe I am so numbed to violence in the movies that I did not come away with the idea that this was the most violent movie I have ever [...]
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Here is a brief summary of new players that were announced at IFA.
Funai makes an affordable player. (Has anyone here ever heard of Funai?)
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Here is a brief summary of new players that were announced at IFA.
Funai makes an affordable player. (Has anyone here ever heard of Funai?)
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I am just so impressed with the work of futurethought.tv. Which is why I keep posting and sharing their work here. This episode is called The Painting. Enjoy! To see the last episode click here.
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I am just so impressed with the work of futurethought.tv. Which is why I keep posting and sharing their work here. This episode is called The Painting. Enjoy! To see the last episode click here.
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Here is yet another cool video from those creative guys over at futurethought.tv. In this short an actor stuck in the silent film era has to deal with contemporary society.
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Here is yet another cool video from those creative guys over at futurethought.tv. In this short an actor stuck in the silent film era has to deal with contemporary society.
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HD Digital Video Links:
The DV show has up an article about tapeless workflow.
The latest Red Camera shipping dates.
Panasonic’s “Professional” AG-HSC1U CamcorderSteve Whatley has shared some new After Effects CS3 books.
Blu-Ray Links
Sony Closes in on 1 [...]
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The Discovery Channel is accepting spoofs of your favorite Discovery Channel shows. The Deadline is soon.
Check out this promotional clip.
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The Discovery Channel is accepting spoofs of your favorite Discovery Channel shows. The Deadline is soon.
Check out this promotional clip.
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Here is the latest episode of Justin Seeley's Photoshop Quicktips. You can see the previous episode here.
Enjoy!
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I've been on vacation the last couple of days, we went down to Nags Head for a few days. But before that I bought my first macro-lens. The EF 50 mm f/2.5 compact-macro from Canon
Although this was the first time I have ever tried a [...]
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Here is the latest episode of Justin Seeley's Photoshop Quicktips. You can see the previous episode here.
Enjoy!
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I've been on vacation the last couple of days, we went down to Nags Head for a few days. But before that I bought my first macro-lens. The EF 50 mm f/2.5 compact-macro from Canon
Although this was the first time I have ever tried a [...]
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Grade A+
DVD:
Video:A
Audio:B
Extras:None
Some movies are referred to homages, homages to different people, director's, genres or styles. Some have called The Good German an homage to 1940's Film Noir. This is incorrect. [...]
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