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Art Adams A native of Northern California, Art Adams spent ten years in LA--first at film school (Loyola Marymount) and then working in the film industry. He started out as a camera assistant on low budget features and worked his way into spots, music videos, features, sitcoms and episodic television shows. He transitioned from assistant to operator to DP by the time he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993. Currently Art focuses his energies on shooting spots and high end corporate productions, as well as special venue and blue/green screen projects. He likes jobs that make his brain hurt with ingenuity and cleverness. He has been published in HD Video Pro, American Cinematographer, Camera Operator Magazine and Film/Tape World. August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 Complete Archives Category Archives Rewiring Wired Composition Occurs in both Space and Time What Wired Didn’t Understand about Depth of Field Wired Magazine Gets the RED Totally Wrong RGB and the F23 The Swing of Things Advice to a Camera Trainee The Fine Art of Negotiating Make the Entrance Pupil Your Friend Tip from the Trenches Wevi’s wobble but they don’t break up Lighting diagrams for the Mac: Omnigraffle Go craaaaazy: fill from the key side! It’s still not the camera! Ooops, we did it again RED Build 16: A Camera Whose Time Has Come Dymo Discpainter, Part Deux Untrustworthy It’s not the budget, it’s where you put the camera! Dymo Discpainter: First Impressions The Compleat Idiot’s Guide to RED Post on a Budget The Debut: Wii Spec Spot, shot on RED, now online at PVC My first RED shoot: The training wheels come off! NAB Odds and Ends Find me at NAB, part 2	Monday, July 28, 2008 Go craaaaazy: fill from the key side! Lighting isn’t a formula--unless you find one that works. Like this one. In a recent article I wrote about how I like to fill from the key side, and I’ve since received a couple of requests for an explanation of what I’m talking about. more » Lighting • Production • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Adam Wilt, Art Adams, Rob, Scott Gentry, rawbee, Milo Hyson, • Permalink Friday, July 25, 2008 It’s still not the camera! My recent shoots with the HVX-200 don’t look good just because of the camera. It’s how we used it. Today, on the CML-Basics list, someone posted that they liked the look of my recent HVX-200 projects so much that they were thinking of asking for an HVX-200 on their next low-budget feature project. This was my response: more » Cameras • Lighting • Production • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: billS, Mike70, Art Adams, Mike70, Nathan Beaman, Steve Hullfish, • Permalink Thursday, July 24, 2008 Ooops, we did it again Wherein a small crew on a low budget makes an HVX-200 look vastly better than it ever should. Recently I wrote of a wildly successful music video shoot I did with the HVX-200. Well, we did it again. A few weeks ago I shot a music video project with director Jono Schaferkotter. The project turned out spectacularly well in spite of working with an eager, but inexperienced, crew and an HVX-200. Between picking shots that worked within the confines of what we could achieve with the gear we had, along with some basic color correction in Final Cut Studio using Magic Bullet Looks, the project looked much better than it had any right to, considering the budget was about $200. more » Cameras • Lighting • Production • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Art Adams, RC Fisher, chucksav, stupper57, Art Adams, chucksav, • Permalink Thursday, July 03, 2008 RED Build 16: A Camera Whose Time Has Come Ah, sweet 16. How I’ve waited for thee. Finally, a camera I can work with. more » Cameras • Production • (4) Comments • Most recent comments by: billS, davhud, mXb, Steven Bradford, • Permalink Friday, June 27, 2008 Dymo Discpainter, Part Deux Wherein I use the Discpainter to print 70 DVDs, with reasonable results. more » Business • Distribution • (4) Comments • Most recent comments by: Art Adams, RC Fisher, stephen v2, George Kroonder, • Permalink Thursday, June 26, 2008 Untrustworthy I just got fired from a job because the producer decided I was untrustworthy. Huh? more » Business • Production • (9) Comments • Most recent comments by: Milo Hyson, Steven Bradford, DanConklin, Art Adams, Christian Glawe, Snow, Joel Smith, Art Adams, davhud, • Permalink Monday, June 16, 2008 It’s not the budget, it’s where you put the camera! Equipment doesn’t make the image; people do. I proved this on a music video recently where we had more people than equipment. more » Cameras • Editing • Lighting • Post Production • Production • Visual Effects • (0) Comments • • Permalink Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Dymo Discpainter: First Impressions Will a printer that does only one thing save my sanity? For quite a while I’ve used an Epson R320 printer to label my showreel DVDs, but the end of that era has come. I now own a Dymo Discpainter. more » Business • Distribution • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Phil Cramer, Ryan P, Mcquade, Sproketz, Sproketz, stephen v2, • Permalink Page 2 of 6 pages < 1 2 3 4 > Last »	3D Audio Budgeting Business Cameras Distribution Editing Hardware Interactive Lighting Motion Graphics NAB '08 Post Production Production Pre-Production Production Training Visual Effects AJA Io HD drivers updated Adam Wilt \| 08/20- 07:24 PM *Important fixes and enhancements in the version 6.0 driver* AJA has released version 6.0 drivers for… Will The Real Kevin Martin Please Stand Up? Bruce A Johnson \| 08/20- 05:42 PM *Populist or corporate tool? You make the call.* Does it seem strange that the same guy that let XM and Sirius Satellite Radio merge - creating a de facto… If the NY Times Says So, It Must Be Official… Bruce A Johnson \| 08/20- 04:37 PM *HDTV Ownership Is “De Rigueur”* Pardon me if I channel Dan Rather at his worst, but: put the cat out, Martha, roll up the streets and poke the fire. … Advertisements