The good people at the light meter company, Sekonic, are hosting the first of a multi-part free video webinar series today at 1pm E.S.T. on using available light for portraiture. Specifically, on lighting using a sunlit window. There's always more to learn when it comes to lighting and it's free,...read more
Today Apple released it's much anticipated and debated completely rebuilt editing software, Final Cut Pro X. I was at the FCP Users Group Supermeet at the annual N.A.B. Conference in Las Vegas this year when they made the announcement to a room of rabid FCP editors and I swear it sounded like one ...read more
Get FREE Tickets to see Raashad Ernesto Green's debut feature, Gun Hill Road, which just premiered at Sundance. We recently interviewed Rashad on an episode of The Double Down Film Show. Listen to the trials and tribulations of how he made the film, went to Sundance and got distribution - then go ...read more
As you can tell, the blog has been a little thin on new entries as of late. The truth is since starting the Down And Dirty Dv Project (consisting of this blog, a podcast, as well as instructional books, DVD's, and filmmaking workshops) it has grown beyond what one man can maintain on his own (espe...read more