This is the first post that I am making since I recieved the new 7D. I have been just blown away with the quality of everything on the camera, especially the video capabilities. I have never really done any video what so ever so this is defiantly new territory for me. It took me a while to get a grip (literally) of this whole filming deal, but it is defiantly something that I would like to work with and really figure out. With technologies changing so rapidly the future of photography is defiantly leaning toward the filming aspect of digital art. If one can master both stills and video, there is a bright career ahead for them. If you do not know me personally I love biking and all forms of it, but one of my main forms of transportation is my fixed gear bike. Since I got my new 7D I have been dying to make a biking edit (I need to learn to edit good first ha) So I purchased this clamp from Bushnell which is actually a window clamp but fits on my handle bars and it has a nice little handle which makes for a steadier image. Speaking of steady-ness I need to work on that.
The photo aspect of the 7D is super legit. I love shooting stills with it way more than my previous 40D (R.I.P 4oD) It is just different and this different is good. The ISO capabilities are just amazing, shooting at 2000 ISO is just beautiful and it is so clear. I can not wait to see where this takes me with photography. Overall the Canon 7D is super rad and I am stoked.
This last week I have just been shooting what ever looks eye-grabbing. Nothing really in specific, just random stuff that I feel needs to be documented. Lots of these photos are in my yard, street or just in my area. I sometimes feel that I have to go somewhere to go shoot but really I can just walk outside of my house and whammy I have a photo. I live in such a beautiful area it is very simple to get a good shot. Since I got my new camera I am working harder on trying to spend a lot of of time on the photo so I have a great exposure, great depth of field and great composition. I have been focusing on depth of field a lot in this last week because I believe that one can share large amounts of emotion through the angle and depth of field. I got a complement this last week about a photo that is on my blog that really made the person feel moved and really feel what is going on in the photo. He said the he saw past the image and really felt to emotion being given off. That is something that I have been trying to incorporate in my photography and I am going to really work on showing the true emotion and the direct feeling being given off from the photo. Here are the images from the week:
Cody Schneider, before the fall.
Cody Schneider after the fall.
BoardSkate.
That is the question, have you hugged your bike today?
My bike.
A drum set I would like to sell.
Some flowers outside my house.
More flowers outside my house.
Even more flowers outside my house.
These are stems to a flower that are pretty standard but look cool, right?
Flower photography is weird. Almost all of the shots look pretty standard (for me at least) They usually are just a macro photo of a flower and bokeh in the background. You just wait and I will get a flower photo that won’t be standard and will different from the typical flower shot.
Here is my tester footage with my new 7D:
Canon 7D tester footage from stephen Sturges on Vimeo.
I defiantly have a lot to learn about video editing, shooting video, and just about every thing. This is my first video I have actually made and it is just mainly tester footage but let me know what you think, areas of improvement and all that jazz. I would love to learn how to film decent because I really do think that it is fun.
Thank you all, please comment.
-Stephen
Hey,
I was checking out some of your work. Props man your young and have talent. Im a photographer based out of Orange County California, but I used to live in Sandpoint, ID. I moved out here for art school, but really stick with it. I know as artists we all live for that complement, so here it is. your photos are rad and the editing is good. keep it up man.
laters