contest

Vincent LaForet recently announced an exiting video contest where he is collaborating with Canon and Vimeo. I watched the initial video the Vincent put together and it is fantastic! Plus, he’s got a LOT of the folks that have interviewed on LensFlare35 involved as judges! Judges for the contest include: Philip Bloom – Director/DP, Russell Carpenter – DP – “Titanic”, Rodney Charters – Director/DP – “24”, Nick Childs – Director/Producer /VP Grey Advertising, Shane Hurlbut – DP – “Terminator Salvation”, Stu Maschwitz – Senior Visual FX Supervisor – “The Spirit”, Rick McCallum – Producer – “Star Wars”, Blake Whitman – Director/Editor – Mr. Vimeo himself.

Here is an excerpt from Vincent:

“Introducing the first user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and we all see beyond the still. To kick off the contest, Canon asked me to interpret what story I saw beyond the still, and to tell that story with the new Canon EOS 7D. My short film will be the first chapter of seven, each ending with a still photograph for the next aspiring filmmaker to interpret. Posing the question to everyone, what do you see beyond the still?”

“Watch my short film (below) and the contest will begin January 15th. I look forward to seeing what everyone creates! More info coming soon!”

This video was Directed, Shot and Edited by Blake Whitman. Additional cameras by Brian King and Sean O’Brien.

So watch the video below and get involved in the project. If you do, let us know and we may publish what you put together right here!


{ 0 comments }

Adding in a “News” Section

by Dave Warner on July 13, 2009

When you start a site like this, you are learning things every single day about it. What should change, what should be added to make it better for users, etc. One of the things that I realized the other day, was that I am giving my Facebook followers a more day-by-day accounting of what is going on. However, that is NOT available to readers of the LensFlare35 site and should be. So, I’m going to add in a lot of the daily happenings and things that are coming up in this section.

So to catch up a bit, last week was BUSY to say the least. I had FOUR interviews including Illah Nourbakhsh about the GigaPan (which posted on Tuesday July 7th), then Al & Fabs Forns for their podcast on July 21st, George Lepp for HIS podcast that will air on July 28th, and finally Mike Wong with OnOne Software for his Quick Hit podcast that will air on July 23rd.

Mike had a GREAT idea and it is something that I’ll be working on for the next few days to set up. Can anyone say contest? How about a copy of the Plug-in Suite 4 software to the winner? This is a $1,300 dollar expense if everything is purchased separately and $500 if you buy the suite. These guys are fantastic, and very supportive of the community out there.  Besides, if EVERYBODY in the company has Canon equipment except for three folks – they can’t be anything BUT great, right?

Stay tuned for details…

{ 0 comments }