White Balance is boring!

If you like to mess around with your photos and you are a Lightroom or Aperture user you can grab some cool color preset at preset pond.

Here are the ones I made:

http://presetpond.com/author/andrearusky/ 

presetpond | Andrea Rascaglia | look | preset | aperture | lightroom | color grading | photo | photography

Filmmaker Philip Bloom shot and edited a very cool HDR time-lapse.

Check the link with the commentary / behind the scenes:

http://philipbloom.net/2011/05/07/24hoursofneon/

http://vimeo.com/23413966

Up until this point I had a collection of timelapses being taken but no real glue…it’s the glue that holds a piece together. Be it a theme, an object, a character, a story. Without that glue it was just random shots.

I went over to Tower 3 to help Eric Kessler set up his camera for a timelapse, I took two cameras with me too to capture his angle as he was facing the other way. It was not at this point that I had my Eureka moment. It was the next morning when I went to pick up my cameras. Eric had done a 7 bracket timelapse with his GH2. I had experimented just once with bracketing exposure for timelapse a while back but never did the post work on it. Eric showed me an example frame and it looked nice. I stole the footage from him and messed around with it in Photomatix Pro and using the tone mapping setting I tweaked it around a fair bit until I got something that was striking…

Simple video tutorial about importing and composting RED footage with the correct gamma settings

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/understanding-linear-workflow/

after effects RED compositing editi

http://makecoolshit.com/10-big-ideas-to-help-make-cool-shit/

The 10 Big Ideas to success

• Optimism - Control your mind. Worry about what is under your control.
• Vision - Everything is creatied twice. First in your head, then in real life.
• Self Awareness - What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Goals - Write these down.
• Action - Show up and make it. There is hard work in everything.
• Energy - Be healthy. Go work out will ya? Be financially healthy, produce more than you consume.
• Wisdom - Never stop learning. You don’t ever know everything.
• Love - First Yourself. Family, friends.
• Courage - No more fear! Just do it!
• Spirit - Align to whatever is bigger. Nature? Life? God?

ideas

check this video..really interesting technique : camera mapping (photo + 3D modelling)

http://www.vimeo.com/7160598

(scroll down to see the behind the scenes images too)

 it looks like a speed photography shooting..but it's all achieved with still photographs and 3D model-render

video camera mapping 3D speed photo

Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization

this is not just fixing the shaky footage..with 2D motion compensation
these guys can re create a very smooth final output..with a smart 3D approach
have a look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlCGh5Pc90&NR=1&feature=fvwp

shown at Siggraph 2009

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio

What's New:

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/whats-new.html

Stories:

OK Coppola is a great dude..but.. that was very cool when i saw my old friend from secondary school Andrea Carnevali talking about BBC and Final Cut here:

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/#BBC

and.. ok...here Coppola too:

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/#Coppla

Final Cut Studio 3