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“A Mir Buttercup” – Mir 20M 20mm f3.5 – Video

So, I got a replacement for the Russian 20mm lens I talked about in THIS post, a later for export version that doesn’t look as cool but maintains most of the beautiful characteristics of its older brother.

Mir 20M 20mmf3.5 Lens
My “new” Russian Mir 20M 20mm f3.5 lens

So, one sunny spring evening I went to one of the largest water meadows in the UK for some wide angle flare fun with the Russian Mir 20M 20mm f3.5 on a Sony A7III, in slo-mo of course.

I do REALLY like this lens and will likely hang on to it for a while but its not very useful for video work as the convex front element means it can’t be used with screw on filters (No ND !!!) and I hate faffing about with matte boxes on these small hybrid mirrorless cameras.
You can, as I did here, shoot slomo and crank the shutter speed to get near correct exposure but it’s by no means ideal and not usable for everything.

It made for a nice little evening in the meadow though :)

I’ve also been meaning to learn DaVinci Resolve for a while so thought I’d try out Resolve 16 Public Beta.
It is not quite what I’m used to editing in Premiere, there are many things to like about it, as well as some that will take some getting used to (all new keyboard shortcuts slowing me down considerably despite the “Premiere” mapping that isn’t even close in the Resolve mapping options).
I’ll definitely be using it more.
It does render out VERY fast compared to Premiere, due to the better use of a computers GPU.

I’ve got another old Russian lens on the way and this one promises to be something special so look out for some tests with that coming soon :)

Music used with Thanks:-
432hz jazz/folk/hymns – “O Brother Man”
soundcloud.com/heatherhammond
Used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license

Neotists film for Collusion “Future Takeover” event

I was recently hired along with friend and collaborator Christian “Documentally” Payne to make a short film about a local creative collective the Neotists (which we are both members of) for a very interesting event in St Neots organised by Collusion and the Neotists called “Future Takeover” (January 24-26 2019)

“Future Takeover” – an event over three days exploring the long-term growth of St Neots and its creative sector through ambitious thinking.

I shot it in 4K on a Sony A7III with a Tamron 28-75 lens.
Supported on a Sachtler Ace tripod.
Audio was from the RODELink Film maker kit wireless lav and the Rode Video Mic Pro.
The interviews were lit using a Brightcast V15 Led Panel with a D-Fuse pop up softbox as the key and an Aputure LS-Mini 20d as a hair light.
Editing and Motion graphics by me, Music by Documentally.

Documentally did a great job (as always) of interviewing the subjects, putting them at ease and gently extracting the best answers. A real pleasure to work with him as always.

Thanks to Collusion for hiring us to do it and for putting on the “Future Takeover” event, Thanks also to the films subjects who it was great fun and a real pleasure to meet and shoot with :-
Richard Slade, Hilary Murfin, Rachel Tackley, Simon Harper & Bernadette Vong.

San Luca Tattoo Lounge – Photos/Video/Website

Whenever I go somewhere new I try to seek out the local tattoo shop as it almost always provides interesting people to talk to.
My hometown proved no exception and I’ve slowly become friends with the good people there.

So when they told me they were moving to new premises I suggested they might need a new website and perhaps some photos and a video to introduce people to it……

Watch the video here and head over to their site to see more.
If you are in Huntingdon maybe even swing by and get some new ink, don’t forget to mention who sent ya :)

www.sanlucatattoo.co.uk

San Luca Tattoo Lounge
97 High Street,
Huntingdon,
Cambs
PE29 3DP

01480581831

07778135805

info@sanlucatattoo.co.uk

Video (and photos) shot on the Sony A7III with the Tamron 28-75 mm/F 2.8 DI III RXD Lens

(Really loving this combo at the moment, beautiful images and far better colour straight out of camera than my old A7SII. That new autofocus doesn’t hurt for gimbal work either.)

Music in the video
Gravity Sound “Kick The Can”

Used under a CC Licence