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About Keith Alvendia

Nov
8
2013

LensProToGo Annual Used Gear Sale Coming on November 13th

Our good friends at LensProToGo are having their annual used lens/camera sale next week! If you're looking for some really good bargains, stop in! [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] LensProToGo Gear Sale   From LensProToGo Press Release: What we need to know * All of the…
Oct
29
2013

PrimeCircle XE Silver Series for Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

There are many reasons why 'cinema' lenses have evolved the way they have - long focus throw, markings on the sides for easy visibility etc... so why not have great cinema lenses for the Blackmagic Cinema Cameras? LockCircle is looking to add to the lenses…
Oct
25
2013

Capture the African Wildlife in this Cinematography Workshop with Abraham Joffe

Are you a filmmaker and a lover of nature? Have a bucket list with "film herds of elephants in Africa" on your list? If so, this is going to be very interesting for you! Oh how I wish I could go on this trip (and…
Oct
23
2013

Tomorrowland 2013 through the eyes of a hyperlapse photographer

Abraham Joffe sent us this incredible 'hyperlapse' video shot by a friend of his, Matthew Vandeputte -- after watching, I had to ask a few questions of Matthew and he was kind enough to reply. So, please watch the video and then scroll down to…
Oct
21
2013

Canon Shutter Count? Get accurate shutter actuations from ShutterCount App

One of the oldest questions around the DSLR market has always been "how many shutter actuations does my camera have?" In fact, one of the most popular posts in the past was this planet5D article "Canon EOS 5D Mark II shutter count actuation utility" Well…
Sep
26
2013

'We’re here for a good time, not a long time’: Shooting the film on location

Third post in the series on "We’re here for a good time, not a long time" [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] From Kerry Harrison: When working outdoors, I love using natural light ,and luckily the weather up in the Lake District was on our side. For…
Sep
25
2013

Register for DSLR Dynamics and win these awesome giveaways BEFORE Sunday Sept 29

We're incredibly excited about the upcoming DSLR Dynamics Video Visuals tour and we would love to get you excited too! So, we've been given well over $30,000 in software, gear, gift certificates to give away to attendees of the tour - and we're excited to…
Sep
25
2013

'We’re here for a good time, not a long time’: Making the feature film

Following up from yesterday's post on this movie.... [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] The story so far From Kerry Harrison: To be perfectly honest, I'd never had any intentions to make a feature film until I received the script for this one. The script was from…
Sep
24
2013

"We’re here for a good time, not a long time" Behind the story

When Kerry Harrison (Director, DOP, Camera, Producer) got in touch with me thru the planet5D chat (which sometimes appears at the bottom of the blog when I'm online) and talked about this film he's been working on called "We're here for a good time, not…
Sep
12
2013

Photographing Le Tour de France

Our good friends at LensProToGo sent us this a few weeks ago and we're finally getting it published! We told you that they were publishing some great stuff on their new blog, and this is just one sample. There's more to this story and many…