Whether you work in film, photography, graphic design, art, culinary, or any form of art, you make things. You make thins due to your taste, and what you find awe-inspiring. This is what helps you form your style, that thing that gives you that edge, that thing that you do that makes everything you do, yours. For years, we will all make things that we find subpar. We need to learn the tools and techniques that will allow us to create things only we can dream up. This picture looks horrid. This painting sucks. My demo reel will never be good enough. It is something all artists go through and if you really love your art, you fight through it. You will go to no end to make everything that you do yours, and I too wish to make everything I do essentially, totally, and unequivocally mine.
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Inspiration
Philip Bloom’s videos always put me in a state of awe. His workshop in New York showed off the Sony A7S and how it’s capable sensor will make any shot a reality. It’s videos such as this that make me want to break out my camera and shoot a film.
Lens whacking is when you disconnect your lens from the camera mount and shift the lens around to create interesting planes of focus and allow light to bleed onto the sensor. I have never actually used this in practice, but Philip’s video is truly so awe inspiring that I might just have to go out and shoot some lens whacking footage right now!