Had to grab a quick photo of the lunar eclipse the other night -- see you in 2033 blood moon!
Photo Ed Bornstein
Nothing like getting out in dirt/heat/weeds when breaking in a new camera! Had a great time with the crew out in a small town outside Detroit this week filming for Outside Television. Still standing by the FS7 as a solid piece of machinery!
Just got my new Sony FS7 in the mail and this thing is amazing! 4K, 180 frames per second (HD), infinite ways to tweak the image, all in a great ergonomic body. I've already taken it out on a couple of shoots and it's changed the way I work!
I went up to Chippewa Falls Wisconsin this week to film this years Leinenkugel's ad for Outside Television. Highlights include a fun drone shoot around the brewery exterior, sunset on the lake and wrap beers with the boys! Can't wait to see how this piece turns out -- Thanks to the folks at Miller-Coors for this great experience!
Another fun shoot with the Shedd Aquarium! This time we got to go up on the roof, which had an amazing vantage point of the skyline I think few people get to see!
Thanks to the Shedd and the folks over at Optimus for the fun day of work!
Gifs are fun, but not as fun as fire pits in the summer!
And now for something completely different!
A little behind the scenes with some critters I filmed yesterday for the Shedd Aquarium. All in all not a bad way to spend the day!
Photos by Ed Bornstein
This brutal Chicago winter has got me dreaming of my timelapse adventure I had driving across the US this summer. I stayed up late photographing the stars, drank a warm case of beer that travelled with me and slept in the bed of my truck. I can't wait to do it again! To see some timelapse from my trip, check out my 2015 Reel
Stretch Armstrong Selfie
RIP Dick Vanderwall. He was a great man who lived a great life.
For those of you familiar with Google Chrome - you may know about all of the great free apps and extensions you can get. Well I recently found a pretty great one called Earth View. It's pretty simple, everytime you open a new tab or window, you get a picture taken by a Google Earth satellite. I'm pretty sure these have to be custom picked by some person, because every single picture is beautiful and amazing. Here's a couple I grabbed this morning just while opening new windows. Enjoy! -- Definitely get this free extension if you use Google Chrome!
This short doc I found is a great watch -- It's well edited, full of smart insight, and has a really nice use of stills. Take a gander!
A couple of behind the scenes stills from the Neil's Puppet Dreams main titles shoot I did with Digital Twigs. This was a really fun shoot. All practically photographed stop motion, motion control, muppets, and Neil Patrick Harris!? Pretty fun couple of days.
Check out the behind the scenes here:
For you movie nerds on a Wednesday.
A little throwback to a little timelapse adventure I had a few months back. Page, AZ
I came across this great documentary today about a kid with autism and how he and his family live together day to day. It's a very understated but beautiful movie. Having known people with autism and spent time working on a documentary photo project in a household with an autistic child myself, I will say this film shows their everyday life in an astoundingly accurate way. The exhaustion, the angry moments, the fun moments, those moments spent thinking about the child's future after you're gone are all shown in this film in very short vignettes that make you feel like you've been living with these people for years. These filmmakers did an amazing job at gaining very intimate access into these peoples' lives and documented it in a very observational way.
Here's a slideshow with some samples of the photo project I shot over a 1 year period in an assisted living facility:
My aim was to gain that same intimate access as the filmmakers, to try and show these guys in a transitional period in their lives. As 18 year olds, they had both just that year entered the assisted living system and left their childhood homes. So this is a document of them entering adulthood in the best way they are able.
Married with Children.
Forget video games -- anyone want to start a kite league? Thanks New York Times video and Guilherme Tensol for this beautiful short doc.
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