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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. September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 Complete Archives Category Archives Too Much Data! The Secret of P2 Slating 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!	Friday, August 15, 2008 RGB and the F23 The more spectra your camera can see, the more it can do. The Sony F23 sees hues of colors I didn’t think a digital camera could see. Why? more » Cameras • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: GlennChan, • Permalink Thursday, August 14, 2008 The Swing of Things Using tilt/shift lenses for good instead of evil I recently shot a museum project where the style required almost exclusive use of tilt/shift lenses. (We occasionally used a Zeiss 14mm prime, but that was rare.) It was a lot of fun, but I remember how tilt/shifts were a considerable mystery before I used them for the first time. Here’s the nickel tour of how to use these lenses. more » Cameras • Production • Training • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: billS, billS, • Permalink Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Advice to a Camera Trainee What I’d tell someone who starts a job as a camera PA--tomorrow! A film student, who I’ve been mentoring, landed a job on a low-budget RED project as camera PA. He sent me an email saying he’s starting the job tomorrow, and what should he know? Here’s the email I sent him to prep him for his first real camera department job: more » Cameras • Production • Training • (0) Comments • • Permalink Thursday, August 07, 2008 The Fine Art of Negotiating I should learn how to do it sometime. I received a cryptic email the other day: “A director we’ve hired asked for you. Please tell us your rates and fees for a one day corporate project.” more » Production • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: davhud, Stephan, • Permalink Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Make the Entrance Pupil Your Friend Eliminate parallax errors on pans and tilts (for fun and profit) I’m helping a friend build a three RED camera panoramic camera system that will shoot a 180 image, combining three 60 degree images in post. One of the more important things to consider when doing this kind of work is finding, and aligning, the “pivot point” of each lens to eliminate parallax errors that can occur during panning and tilting. more » Cameras • Hardware • Production • Training • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: billS, Scott Gentry, • Permalink Saturday, August 02, 2008 Tip from the Trenches Learn from the mistakes of others: White Balancing I hate white balancing, and I try never to do it. If you must, here’s when and where to do it. more » Cameras • Production • Training • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: davhud, • Permalink Thursday, July 31, 2008 Wevi’s wobble but they don’t break up IDX’s new Wevi CW-5HD wireless HD system will have you looking for hidden wires and cackling maniacally when you don’t find them If I hadn’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it. I still don’t quite believe it. I just saw an on-camera HD wireless transmitter perform spectacularly, with almost no latency and no breakup at 50’. more » Cameras • Hardware • (0) Comments • • Permalink Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Lighting diagrams for the Mac: Omnigraffle I want applications that get out of my way and let me work. That includes lighting diagrams. This is what works for me… I don’t have a lot of time to learn new software packages, so I tend to fall in with packages that don’t require me to read the manual. That’s why Omnigraffle works for me. more » Lighting • Pre-Production • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: Richard Harrington, • Permalink Page 1 of 6 pages 1 2 3 > Last »	3D Audio Budgeting Business Cameras Distribution Editing Hardware Interactive Lighting Motion Graphics NAB '08 Post Production Production Pre-Production Production Training Visual Effects TED Talk: The Web and TV, a Sibling Rivalry Chris Meyer \| 09/07- 09:37 AM *Peter Hirshberg gives a history lesson on the parallel development of computers and TV over the past 50 years.* A parallel conference to TED… Offline To Online For An HD Project Kevin P. McAuliffe \| 09/06- 09:32 PM *After you get over completing your first “online”, you will be finishing all your projects in record time.* I thought that for this next article,… Nikon D90 vs Red’s Scarlet - Specdown! Mike Curtis \| 09/06- 02:14 PM *Does the Nikon D90 pose a threat to (the specs only of) Red’s Scarlet?* Nikon is about to ship the D90,… Advertisements