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SSteezle
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This thread's to share what you're most stoked about in the photo/film world. I know people are busy and have a lot of ideas that they want to pursue, and just haven't quite had the time yet to make it happen. Hopefully posting some things you want to film will help you to create some time to get it done.

To start things off--

- I just got back in touch with a friend that four wheels and is so sick at it. I already have a perfect song picked out and have been picturing the shots I'll get for the last day. Can't wait to start filming.

- Finally picked up a sandisk extreme pro 32gb 95mb/s SD card for my t2i and no longer have to worry about "filming has stopped automatically", makes me feel so much more confident when filming important things

- Just purchased a 3tb hard drive, so all my shits backed up!

share your giddyness
Jun 27 2012 9:15AM
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Sklar
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filmed for the first time in a while
https://www.newschoolers.com/watch/597786.0/January-@-Keystone?c=11&o=10&t=2

Jan 7 2013 6:39PM
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Sklar
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Jan 7 2013 8:39PM
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Ethan.G
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picked this up today! I'll probably have some questions with importing the video onto my macbook soon, I'm a huge noob when it comes to that haha

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Jan 10 2013 7:04PM
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HWW
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I heard that's a great camera for its price range, looks pretty smooth, hope to see some pics/vid.
Jan 12 2013 11:42AM
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Ethan.G
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It's awfully cloudy right now but I'm hoping the clouds will clear and I can get out to shoot some star trails or Milky Way photos tonight, so if I do I'll get a chance to test out my rx100. From the brief videos I've taken it seems pretty nice but I need download good editing software and learn all about that stuff haha
Jan 12 2013 4:51PM
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123+ski
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I would highly recommend you look in to Lightroom, as I'm sure many others would also suggest. It is awesome for simple editing, raw conversion, and organization. photoshop is great too, and if you want to do video as well, you might as well get cs6 production premium or master collection. One of my favorite things about it is how well everything works together. I can import my photos to lightroom, edit 1 then sync the settings, then send them all to photoshop to do a panorama, and it is so easy.
Jan 12 2013 9:11PM
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Mag
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There's something about lr that I just hate, much prefer fastone image viewer+ camera raw, rapid to look through the photos, can edit them with 1 button and its just much cleaner and faster.
Jan 12 2013 9:18PM
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Ethan.G
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@ p.hawks I use Lightroom 4 and PS CS5, photography is my main hobby I meant I need to download software for the video aspect seeing as how my d700 doesn't have video I've had no need to download fcp or premiere pro for example. Is there much of a learning curve to fcp? Would anyone recommend something else? It doesn't have to be easy to use, I want to learn how to slow 60fps footage down properly and would like to possibly learn color grading or other advanced techniques for video.
Jan 13 2013 4:49PM
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1337
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Premiere Pro CS6. Not only is it much easier to deal with rendering, but it works 100x faster on slower computers, at least when I used it. Exported in 5 minutes what my friend had to wait 2 hours for in FCP on an identical laptop
Jan 13 2013 5:23PM
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Ethan.G
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thanks I'll take a look at it, my friend also recommended that to me as well.
Jan 13 2013 6:31PM
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jeano
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stoked im flying out to germany and switz for 2 months to ski and take photos next weekend! picked up a shit ton of portra 400 too :)
Jan 13 2013 9:20PM
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Bmo.
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have a blast man! you better have some money saved because switzerland is expensive as fuck!
Jan 13 2013 9:59PM
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CrotchKiller
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finally got the few tiny pieces to complete me setup. Why do quick releases have to be so damn pricey :I
Jan 13 2013 10:13PM
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Mag
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There's those manfrotto copies for 30$ that fit manfrotto 501pl, still expensive but much cheaper than the brand ones
Jan 14 2013 8:03AM
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123+ski
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ya, premiere pro cs6 is part of the two bundles i suggested. Those bundles also contain products like photoshop and after effects, both of which I could see you using or at least trying in the near future. And as far as lightroom, to each his own I guess, I came from just having iphoto, then aperture, then lr3 and now 4. I like how it works for my workflow, and while I do enjoy photography, I do more video projects.
Jan 14 2013 9:20AM
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SSteezle
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stoked on busyness and kind of stoked on this.

just did handheld again with my super tak 50, but the lighting was super foggy and night skiing. I thought it'd be cool, but i ended up really having to crank the ISO and condensation got on my lens so all the shots are pretty blurry/not sharp.

Wawa-1.13.13 from John O'Rourke on Vimeo.

Jan 14 2013 4:36PM
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jeano
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thanks man, it's definitely going to be sick as fuck. ive been there a few times, aha i remember the first time i went i was like fuck it im going to save money by eating mcdonalds everyday. ended up spending 12 francs for a fucking bigmac fries and a drink hahaha
Jan 15 2013 5:48AM
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Bmo.
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Its insane! I was in Geneva for a day and had a strict budget for my trip, so my dinner consisted of a baguette with some raspberry jam for 4 francs haha
Jan 15 2013 9:11AM
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Downtofilm
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Just ordered Millar Solo DV CF legs, a new LaCie rugged mini 1TB drive, a wind muff for my video mic and a Rokinon 85mm, super stoked!
Jan 15 2013 1:29PM
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Bmo.
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dood you're killing me! still have my 85 for sale
Jan 15 2013 1:37PM
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goodiepocket
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FSB 6 with Sachtler CF Legs (soon to be some Miller Solo CF legs), Cinevate Atlas 10 and a few externals to back up my RAID, laptop and tower. Looking forward to this year!
Jan 15 2013 1:42PM
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Brock.
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Excited to get to work with a FF tomorrow

Jan 15 2013 2:40PM
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Downtofilm
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damn, I thought you sold it!!
Jan 15 2013 8:17PM
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Bmo.
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nope :( ebayer backed out. no worries man
Jan 15 2013 8:46PM
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blatt
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Just placed an order for a gh3. whoooooooop
Jan 16 2013 2:19PM
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Sklar
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First time being published!
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One of my shots of Kevin Rolland from Dew tour in the french ski magazine Skieur
Jan 16 2013 2:23PM
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Balto
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Ordered a 6 stop ND so I can shoot at 1.2 mid day With decent speed film lol
Jan 16 2013 6:02PM
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1337
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did they send you a copy?!
Jan 16 2013 6:28PM
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eheath
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Just put 16gb of ram in my MBP and gonna buy a 240gb ssd to replace my HD. Stoked for a "new" laptop
Jan 16 2013 6:32PM
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Brentizzle
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thinking of doing this to my mbp 17". Give us an update when you get the SSD on the speed improvement. sounds sick
Jan 17 2013 12:31AM
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Sklar
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in the mail!
Jan 17 2013 12:33AM
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eheath
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Seeing how fast my ssd is on my desktop, no doubt its gonna be nice. Having all your program files on an SSD makes everything just so damn snappy.
Jan 17 2013 1:23AM
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HWW
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Yeah the shots are a little blurry, but the audio was such a nice change from most of the videos posted on here, and the filming was good. Only thing not so good was the face near the beginning, he kind of looked sad / aggressive and didn't really add anything to the edit for me. Otherwise, please post more, cause I really really liked that!
Jan 17 2013 9:25AM
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SSteezle
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thanks man, i actually really appreciate that. I learned a good amount from the edit and plan on doing a similar type of edit soon. Thought i could get away with the foggy look at night, but if i'm going for that same weather, I think the shots would be much cleaner with natural daylight.
Jan 17 2013 1:37PM
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zahava
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Finally, going to make my life so much easier!

Grey Loka Shell
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2x S Pro ICU's
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Jan 17 2013 2:11PM
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phreshpow
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Just picked up a Loka myself! I got the lighter grey colorway with a medium ICU. Stoked for it to arrive!

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Jan 17 2013 3:26PM
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1337
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Latest edit turned out much better than I expected and was well received. Wasn't really into it when I was filming (and it definitely showed) and when I started editing, but I finally got back into that editing groove that I haven't been in since last season.

I'm still thinking photo will be better for me this year though :P
Jan 18 2013 12:08AM
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eheath
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#fotophag
Jan 18 2013 3:37AM
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~bagelz~
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just got a rokinon 3.5 fisheye lense and a azden smx-10 stereo microphone along with a shit ton of filters and a remote!!!!
so stoked to go film skateboarding today!!!!1!!1!exclamation point!

Jan 18 2013 11:25AM
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jkauffman22
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Just got Video of the Day on Timeshipracing.com! Check it out here:

http://www.timeshipracing.com/

Or here is the video if you'd rather be lazy

Baked at Bridgepins from Rainbird Visuals on Vimeo.


Jan 18 2013 2:47PM
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eheath
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All my boot times are fucking insane. It awesome, not exactly a necessity but very convenient. I installed a Sandisk Extreme 240gb SSD. Might re-install my 750gb HD with the OWC data doubler (installing the HD in place of the optical drive).
Jan 18 2013 4:46PM
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HWW
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How much was the 240gb SSD?

Would you recommend swapping my 750gb HD out for an SSD?
Jan 18 2013 5:28PM
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Mag
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What's your secondary drive?
Jan 18 2013 5:33PM
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eheath
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It was 179 on B&H ($50 off deal) best i found for the price and size. So far I'm stoked, I have about 150gb of shit (gonna clean it up) but I definitely don't need more than that since I run everything on external drives.
Jan 18 2013 5:52PM
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Brentizzle
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That sounds awesome. Yeah I have also thought about that before as well seeing as I can't remember the last time I inserted a DVD or cd. Did you wipe your old HD before removing it?

Also, pumped I just got back from my 5th day of shooting urban in the last 8 days. Stacking shots. This summer will be a sick with all the editing I'll get to do for the first ever 403MEDIA movie.
Jan 18 2013 8:52PM
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1337
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Hype! Really excited to see what you guys come up with!

Stoked on the Bronica SQ-A I'm getting hooked up with
Jan 19 2013 1:58PM
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Downtofilm
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Millar CF legs showed up last night, along with my 85mm super stoked got to use them today
Jan 19 2013 6:11PM
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Downtofilm
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Going to Quebec on Thursday to shoot urban! Stoked!
Jan 21 2013 3:17AM
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sweatshirt
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with who?
Jan 21 2013 6:03AM
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blatt
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To say the least, I'm a little excited. Quality is fucked up
Jan 21 2013 2:25PM
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