Bella be ready…

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Often people ask what I use to take photos or videos with. I reply with a simple “anything and everything”. There’s a lot of snobbery that goes with photography or anything involving media in general, or at least ive found that anyway. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate expensive and feature packed equipment – but I certainly don’t believe that you need some £1,000 DSLR to achieve results commonly seen on the internet or TV. I just use what I have and make the best I can with what I have. A perfect example of this is this photo taken on some old Nokia Mobile phone I had. Bella is my neighbours Cat, by far the best cat I have ever encountered or likely ever will. Unfortunately we lost her a couple of years ago due to a road collision but here she is, immortalized digitally. Rest in peace my furry friend.

Final stages of DVD menu Authoring for The Reminders UK

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Spent a couple of hours putting the latest DVD of the Reminders together tonight. The footage I taken from the rewind festival came out rather good considering my position to the stage and lighting. I recorded in Full HD at 29 Frames a second. This left me with some monstrous files, a 3minute 10 second track comes to 549MB! remember, if you would like us to film you or your band contact us fiftycalmedia@hotmail.com

My six string friend…

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Finally got round to uploading a photo of one of my guitars. This is a custom made acoustic I imported around four years ago. After playing it (rather badly may I add) I lay it down on my bed and loved the way the sun light bathed the wood in a glorious glow.

The Misunderstood flower…..

Its far too easy to over look things. I do it myself all the time, however on this occasion out of just sheer luck rather than skill I believe I managed overcome this with a photo of a Dandelion Flower. A common British weed with a relentless pace of Growth I first overlooked its flower as a subject. Well that was right until I seen this photo on my computer.  A Dandelion flower

A night to remember with the Reminders

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Spent tonight with The Reminders sifting through all their media.  Videos and photos – all 14GB of it! I think its important to decide what everyone wants as a band and between us pick out what stands out so they have a strong digital presence on the internet and DVD’s/CDs etc.

As tedious as trawling through that  amount of media may sound I can honestly say the sense of achievement, enthusiasm and passion for what they do strong overcome any initial lack of motivation.

Now the hard work begins, processing, editing and uploading all of this. A mammoth task but as they say “An elephant can be eaten, one bite at a time” Watch this space, some exciting things to come…….

Charlie, you’re too close mate

I have the pleasure of looking after next doors cat over the next few days. He used to be incredibly scared of me (as he is with all strangers) but now we’re like best mates. I though I’d try and capture some footage of him and maybe print some photos off. I sort of wish I had taken my tripod, but I simply propped it up using the clear bumper case on my iPhone. Charlie got a little too close at one point though!