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cannot compete with my day rate against some freshly- graduated students who got a 7D for Christmas! With a mass of new shooters comes a great variety in the quality of content being produced. There are some very talented shooters out there, but there are also some who could benefit from some basic disciplines when it comes to white balance, exposure, focus and composition. Part of the blame has to lie with producers and companies that employ people for as little as possible.
Does this approach have a future? I think DLSRs can only improve quality-wise and they will always have a place for lower end productions and B-roll. We may start to see more
mainstream low budget features and TV shows being shot on DSLRs as budgets fall even lower. But with cameras such as the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, the lines between the
England and Northern Ireland, showing the process from farm to fork. It's part of the job I love, with a lot of variety seeing the production process of how things work.
Have you been busy? This year has really picked up for me so far; it seems to come in waves a few months at a time. I'm riding the wave at the moment.
Shooting where? I mostly shoot in the UK, often in and around Kent and London with a job coming up in Wales. At the end of the year I'll also be filming in Scotland.
DLSR and the video camera are becoming very blurred.
What do you think of the current activity in 4K TV? I think 4K will provide benefits; not in 4K broadcasts to the home, but shooting in 4K and having the option to zoom in and re-frame live pictures for
some productions, mainly sports events.
Current assignments. Where, doing what, shooting for whom? I've recently been shooting some corporate videos for a large food company in the UK, filming on farms and factories in
What types of productions do you currently shoot? I would say 80 percent of my work is corporate, with the rest being short films and music videos. There's still some people with money out there which is good. I enjoy corporate work but shorts and music videos are so creative and I love that.
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