J Ryan Williams

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After a week of trying, I finally won an auction on the Gini follow focus rig I've been after! Woot!

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Just re-watched "Breathless" by Jean-Luc Godard... but on Blu-ray for the first time, which looked awesome. I love his style of quick-edits in dialog scenes which compress time (there's a good example in the long room scene and one particular driving scene framed on Seberg while Belmondo complains about her). Also love how most of this was written on the fly.

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Sliced baked potatoes: thinly slice almost all the way through. drizzle with butter, olive oil, salt and pepper. bake at 425 for about 40 min.

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Ha! This is pretty funny. IKONOSKOP Vs RED: the most unfair camera test.

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I'll have to look into this puppy.

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Still need to put together my steadycam rig I bought materials for like a ye

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Nice! Hmmm. Okay, I need to rethink the garden boxes I'm about to build.

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Clever.

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Want.

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Robbie Thompson Awesome! Tesla was so ahead of his time.

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Time to get serious about making some feature film shorts and music videos! :)

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Robbie Thompson Have you hacked your GH2?

J Ryan Williams Not just yet. Planning to soon. I wanted to get the hang of all the stock features before bumping up the bitrate.

Robbie Thompson Smart move. I hacked my GH1 and and excited to see the possibilities with the GH2.

Shaun Seneviratne this is sweet, man. my t2i got stolen in November and I've been debating between the GH2 and the 60D. Leaning towards GH2... How did you decide on what lenses to start off with?

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Our new film company logo so far. I kinda love it. Still need to vectorize a few bits before we start working on the bumpers. Progress!

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Looking at getting this for our GH2 soon. I love all the macro stuff you can get out of it. Nice night footage as well.

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TEDx talk on filmmaking from the perspective of a deaf person. Cool ideas on using the visual medium in unusual ways to solve perspective incongruence.

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Full Circle, A Short Film Shot From a Jump Rope's Dizzying Perspective. Would love to know how they rigged this shot.

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_why a.k.a. Why The Lucky Stiff. I bit of a creative folk-hero in the programming world.

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Bob Katz's K-system. Everything K-20, baby. Most CD's mastered these days? Not even on this chart... they'd be K-8 or something. In other words, you're listening to bricks.

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The entire opening sequence. Great stuff. I should point out, the music (and sound overall) was incredibly well done also.

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This trailer, which is kinda Hollywooded up, really doesn't do this movie justice. Watched it last night. Lar von Trier movies always stick with you for a while. This one was probably more accessible than others, but very beautiful. The opening sequence is one of the best I've seen. Very Ingmar Bergman influenced... but amped up and more impressionistic.

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Catherine Jalbert I couldn't agree with you more. One of the best films I've seen this year. I couldn't stop talking about it!

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Getting our Panasonic GH2 soon, and one of the first things I want to get as soon as there's budget is this SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.7 prime and a k-mount adapter.

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Garden path.

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Pretty awesome. Especially the first half.

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More John Alton... shadow and light are characters in this film. Check how the shadow stands in as a double for the captain anytime he steps out of frame. Love this to death. You can stream it on Netflix currently by the way.

by CharlieChaplinMovie

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My God the lighting in this scene, man. John Alton, dp.

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John Alton's Painting With Light. I've learned a lot from this book and continue to learn more each time I read it. Even if a lot of the kit is outdated, the techniques are solid and inspiring. Alton was a master of film noir using extreme darkness and shadow in contrast to amazingly vivid light. Best known for black and white, he also is responsible for the stunningly vivid color and light for An American in Paris -- particularly the dance scenes.

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The Frankenheimer classic... the last great black and white action film. Burt Lancaster playing a French resistance figure. Some of the most beautiful examples of wide-angle deep focus used to give you an almost tunnel-vision along the tracks. Also used to warp the spacial relationship of foreground characters to others in the scene, which is wonderfully suffocating at times. Editing is brilliant. Music brilliant. A must see.

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On Film Editing: An Introduction to the Art of Film Construction by Edward Dmytryk. Very irritated that I can't find my copy of this right now.

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Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï. Genius film.

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I made these tonight and OMG...they were awesome!

from Flickr

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This too...

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Robbie Thompson This lens ROCKS!

J Ryan Williams Yes! Pretty much becoming my go-to automatic lens.

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You will be mine, my sweet. Soon... Soon...

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Ton van de Merwe Excellent choice, one of the best camera´s for video

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One of my favorite examples of light using lines (from blinds) in combination with the dress pattern. From El Conformista. Vittorio Storaro, director of photography.

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