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Trailer: The Life That Jack Built

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m becoming more and more intrigued about the possibilities of video. So, to help further develop my videography skills, I decided to start a little personal project documenting the life of my grandfather. Last week I was in Pittsburgh and I spent a week with him interviewing him and visiting places from his past. I still have a lot more footage I want to get, including interviews with all of his children (my aunts and uncles). But, in the meantime, I thought I’d put together a rough, little trailer to give everyone a taste of what’s to come. It’s short and doesn’t include too much info but it’s a start.


The Life That Jack Built – Trailer from Shawn Duffy on Vimeo.


  

Stay tuned because I’ll be writing soon about some of the lessons learned while shooting my first big video project!

Video: Shooting High-Key Portraits

Last week, my friend and fellow photographer Rick French stopped over to try out his new Lastolite HiLite background. Since I’ve also been really excited about the prospect of shooting more video with my Canon 5D Mark II, Rick agreed to allow me to film everything so I could turn it into a brief video tutorial.

The final video is only about 4 minutes long and I’ve included it below. This was my first attempt to produce a video with the 5D Mark II and Final Cut Express but I’m pretty happy with the result. Obviously, I have a long way to go before I shoot the sequel to Avatar but, if you stick around, I’ll be sharing more and more videos over the next few months that will, hopefully, get progressively better.

Anyway, on to the video…


Shooting High-Key Portraits from Shawn Duffy on Vimeo.

Check me out at Pictory!

In case you haven’t yet heard about it, Pictory is a relatively new online magazine devoted to publishing single photo essays contributed by photographers from around the Internet. From the website:

“Pictory is a showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures. Anyone can submit one large, captioned image to each of Pictory’s editorial themes. I’m editor, designer, and founder Laura Brunow Miner, and I will select a few dozen of the best items from each theme to appear in each showcase.

“Why just one photo? I want you to pick your best image — and, it’s really interesting to compare work from different contributors on the same topic. Other sites offer photo essays and bodies of work from one photographer, but I want to help a diverse group of people put together collaborative photo essays.”

I was lucky enough to have one of my photos selected in their most recent showcase Danger. My selected photo and caption below…




  

“Every Friday in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, activists demonstrate against the construction of Israel’s “security/separation” wall. Often, these demonstrations turn violent. The Israeli army fires tear gas, rubber bullets, and occasionally live rounds while Palestinian demonstrators respond with rocks and slingshots.”

Last Month in New York

I’ve finally gotten around to editing the photos I took while I was in New York last month. I actually didn’t get out to shoot as much as I would have liked but I did manage to take a few photos.

The Brooklyn Bridge

In all my visits to New York, I’ve never actually visited the Brooklyn Bridge. I don’t know why, really. It was just never on the itinerary. This time, though, I made sure to get down there on a particularly beautiful day. I’ve included a few shots, three of which are panoramas, below:

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