with only one piece of white paper, how do you introduce yourself + abilities to the world?

happy to premiere my new movie, the escape, here.

was a fantastic project made that much better by the people + location. great to team up with andre, editor of the wildly popular reverie, as well as our tunesmith in nyc, dominic, with his tight original score. appreciate all the hard work by rich our main man + thanks to jodi + those who didn’t make the final cut. next time i promise. + thanks to jeff at gravityshots for his acrobatics (still want that creek shot).

super 8 indeed – it’s been my favorite thing out there for months now + heightened even more so with my recent acquisition of the very canon camera my dad used when i was a kid. straight outta the 70′s. still had film in it + the batteries worked for a few minutes.

in conjunction with the pending new release (enough templates already) of my super custom site here’s a bit of rachel’s road trip in super 8 with hd by a canon mark II + a sony EX3.

rachel’s roadtrip from heath korvola on Vimeo.

with the release of the jesus pad this past weekend there’s no doubt that many aspects of visual media + the publishing industry will change. one part of that in particular that i’m interested in is the concept of vertical video. it seems almost non existent today + yet i hear predictions that it’s on the way in a large scale + i’d have to agree.

coming from a photography background one of the very first things i did with my 5D II was shoot vertical video. not because i knew at all what i was doing but purely from a visual standpoint as i was used to seeing that way. in that vein, i’m interested in seeing what the online editions of your fav mags adopt – seems to me that there’s a place for vertical video to fit within the print columns that dominate our publishing industry. i’m already concepting a project for later this year that will be anchored in the vertical format. in the time being, let’s see if this blows up or not.

here’s a dated test sequence of animated stills that gives a small taste of vertical, though in this case it’s running splitscreen. definitely a fan of this as it makes vertical stills or footage that much more versatile as the clip could run as stand alone vertical embedded in an online mag column but could pop out to standard 4:3 or 16:9 once open in it’s own page.

20080430_roadtest from heath korvola on Vimeo.

here’s a run through of the latest from adobe on the lightroom front. version 3 beta 2 came out a week ago + i took it for a test run on a shoot for top secret project called broken. adobe’s refined a handful of things with this beta + there’s something like 350,000 of us current users waiting for the real thing sometime this summer. among other features is a revamped tethering capability that is solid so far.

to get tethered shooting working you’ll need a few things:

first, make sure your camera’s compatible. the canon 5dII is good to go as are most recent bodies.

next you’ll need either a usb or firewire cable (should come with camera). at this time it doesn’t look like the wireless transmission units currently on market are compatible. i imagine this could change in the future.

then download lightroom 3 + it’s as easy as file/tethered capture/start tethered capture.

overall it couldn’t be smoother. granted i was working with a short cord + raw images + all was solid. i would definitely like a few more things, however;

the ability to have the raw images on both the card + the hard drive. better yet an option to toggle back + forth so that if you’re ever card free you could always shoot tethered. better workflow wise though to have all the images in one place. if you start tethered + then jump off you’ll have images in two different place but not in a completely redundant way.

like to see more options on the shoot bar within lightroom. great to see the camera controls + have a nice lg shutter but the horizontal bit takes too much room. i’d like to be able to opt for a vertical stack as well.

this would be brilliant for video as well. when’s that out adobe? you’ve gone far enough with this beta to include video import + metalogging into lightroom so how far off are we? be way smooth to pull a histogram up with live video while you have one subject interview another etc, without you even being in the same room. the day that comes around + works wirelessly i’ll be one happy puppy as canon already has video doable over their WFT-E4A.

if that isn’t enough of the future for you in one day, try this from the photoshop front or this from ol’ pogue himself on the iphone front.

and lastly, rip jim marshall