I just returned from a great trip to see my buddy Tyler in Chicago. We had a great time and I wanted to make a short little video that described the trip in 60 seconds. It’s kind of a pain to carry around this camera all the time, so a lot of what we did [...]
__________ Inspirational 1. This is inspirational for me because it is a young director, using a Canon 7D (the camera I have) and won the best narrative at SxSW in Austin, Texas. It looks like she could have made this on a cell phone camera and it still would have been excellent, but it’s inspiring [...]
My mother runs a fantastic floral shop in Bowling Green, KY named MacKenzie’s, which is named after the horse she sold to start that business. I visited her recently and made a very short video for her. The arrangement she made in the video was something she did on the fly with roses, moss, quail [...]
Today I shot footage for the Sewanee Annual Fund. This will be one of three videos and in this one I interviewed the infamous Dr. Haskell. We had a nice interview and then I grabbed some footage of the campus as the sun was setting. I used the Rode VideoMic hooked up to the Zoom [...]
I had a decent flight yesterday. I waited to fly until everyone else launched so I could film everyone’s launches. Go to the youtube page for this video and make comments about what you think people did right and what they did wrong: I used my Canon 7D to film the launches at 60fps and [...]
I got 135,000 views on my Avatar video last night because it was featured on the Home page of Youtube during the Oscars! Now it’s up to 153,000 views! This is the first time I’ve had a video reach over 100k views, and this one did it by a long shot! I stayed up late [...]
Well, I thought about it and decided I might as well put together a shorter version of the Avatar video considering people’s attention spans these days (mine included). So I used a couple new clips that weren’t in the original and recut a shorter version that might be more conducive to people sharing the video [...]
Avatar came out while my wife was on a trip to Haiti, and since I promised to see it with her, I waited. And waited. It was an epic adventure that rivaled the movie itself. Well, maybe not, but it was hard waiting. It had been out almost two weeks by the time I saw [...]
So recently I took a trip to San Francisco to film for two friend’s wine label Miracle One. They make a very nice Pinot and Chardonnay. And if you live in the Chattanooga area, you can pick them up at the wine place next to Greenlife, and if your local place doesn’t sell it, you [...]
I recently got a few new items of gear and will slowly begin to post reviews of them. One I was excited about was the Zacuto Z-Finder that I picked up at B & H Photo for about $380. There are some cheaper alternatives like the Hoodman ($80), but the only option to keep that [...]
Copyright © 2012 · All Rights Reserved · Lucas Ridley