Vegas from the Wynn

Sketches

The other day a friend asked how my creative process worked. I believe its pretty hard to ascertain how ideas come to be in my nebulous brain, but I can say that once a thought pops in I find the need to sketch it. Sometimes ideas are like dreams in that if you don't fix them in something solid you may forget them. Granted my sketching skills are on pretty low level, but there is something satisfying about going from an idea to a sketch to a final image.

Stopping motion on the RED for Stills

So, the silly gentleman with a ping pong racket in one hand and a tennis ball in the other is non other than me.  I may look still enough, but I'm giving my best Boris Becker swing impression I can. I did a quick camera test to see the motion stopping ability of the Red.  If you can get 24 frames per second you can get exactly the moment you want, right?   60 fps would be even better. Right? Well maybe and maybe not.  I'm now certain that there is still something to be said about a photographer going for one frame and getting it as opposed to just "filming" it and hoping the exact action happens at one of those 24 stops in a second.