VIDEO Emporio Armani Summer 2010 - Christiano Ronaldo by Marcus Piggott & Mert Alas

Emporio Armani Summer 2010 - Christiano Ronaldo by Marcus Piggott & Mert Alas

I like this video, behind the scenes, the wider view showing the production process.

X FACTOR dancer LEWIS by Jason

Recently photographed Lewis who is a dancer on X factor this year, cool guy who got straight into his shoot.

Keep watching for this guy... .

Madonna - Girl Gone Wild, directed by Mert and Marcus

Directed by Mert and Marcus
Produced by Madonna, B. Benassi, A. Benassi

View more from Mert & Marcus, great photographers here

Website update & whats new at jasonharry.com

With the dismal summer gone, winter settling in it was time for some new content, the website front page and blog have fresh imagery with more images and video content to be uploaded soon.

More frequent video posts from me will be coming this way, next up a brief video showing the equipment I use with my basic DSLR video setup, I have found there is real benefit to both sides of my photography and video work using the Calumet monitor.

The Calumet monitor featured a week or two back is really good for preview or play back, am finding it great for checking the details and critical focus, a sound investment.

VIDEO Gucci Spring Summer 2012 / Campaign Video

For Gucci, Spring Summer 2012 / Campaign Video

How print campaigns and video should work together.



In the video 
Abbey Lee Kershaw
Greg Nawrat
Karmen Pedaru

Credits
Camilla Nickerson - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Luigi Murenu - Hair Stylist
Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott - Director
Harrison Boyce - Director of Photography
Nathaniel Brown - Director of Photography

SOUND Zoom H4N for photographers making video.

Last week I posted about the Zoom H1N, a great entry level external mic.

Also in the Zoom product range is the H4N.

For those who need good quality sound, the Zoom products are worth looking at. Having had various on camera mics the zoom offers greater flexibiilty.. fantastic for interviewing people, capturing ambient sound etc.

As with every new hardware device a little time is needed to figure out the menu system, after an hour or so with my new Zoom mic had the basic operation figured out, produced a file, downloaded from the device to my computer.

Below is a video about the Zoom H4N for those serious about better sounding.. sound.

Bracketing Exposures, experiment.

Bracketing Exposures, experiment with the look.

First thing I do before a shoot starts is take multiple exposures of the scene to work out what is a maybe and what is a no go.


Experimenting is something that helps me grow, Jay Maisel a NY photographer routinely shoots his first frame on, one frame over and one frame under. He does this not to HDR the image, more to decide which file is the best as a starting point. What file is going to work best for him.

For photographers starting out  with a camera that has live view, use the function, if it looks good on the back of the screen and you trust that preview to be faithful, keep it, press the shutter release.

Make use of all the tools available in camera, to increase you chances of making good frames.