Happy Holidays From Filmmaking Naturally
Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you had a great holiday! I look forward to sharing my love of nature and wildlife and how to better capture both on video with you in the coming new year!
Why You Should Always Set Your White Balance Manually
Is It The Filmmaker or The Camera That Creates Great Looking Nature and Wildlife Footage? How many times have you watched Nat Geo or Animal Planet and said to yourself, "If only I had the camera those guys use I could get some great footage too"? I know I used to say it all the [...]
The Sun Doesn’t Always Shine In Nature But Go Out Anyway
When The Weather Turns Bad Do You Pack It In? You Could Be Missing Some Great Footage! Everyone loves to go out an film nature and wildlife on a warm, sunny day. I mean who wouldn't? Give me a warm Spring day with golden sunlight and I'm off with my video camera in a heartbeat. [...]
Charity Film Challenge 2012- A Story Begins to Emerge From The Fog
The Trees Speak to Those Who Choose To Listen Last night as I was finishing up my location scouting at Indian Creek Nature Center, I stopped again at Founder's Grove and just sat and took everything in. I felt the wind on my face, I watched as the branches of the trees swayed to and [...]
Scouting Day – Charity Film Challenge
Scouting Indian Creek Nature Center For Locations Today is the first full day of being able to focus on the theme for the DVC/UWOL Charity Film Challenge. Â I spent some time last night looking up legends and folklore on trees. Found a great Native American story about why the trees lose their leaves. problem is, [...]
The Charity Film Challenge Theme is Announced!
It's Go Time! Today the theme for the 6th annual DVC/UWOL Charity Film Challenge was announced. And the theme is... "TREES". At first it sounds deceptively easy to crank out a four minute film about trees. But then you start to think about it and you realize you just can't shoot a bunch of trees [...]
Welcome to the DVC/UWOL Charity Film Challenge 2012 Journal
An Opportunity to Follow Along As I Try to Create a Film in 14 Days! A few years ago on the Digital Video Information Network a bunch of nature and wildlife filmmakers got together to create a film challenge to build friendships, grow as filmmakers and to just plain have fun. The challenge we were [...]
