Lazy Dayz

So Trish has been off work for 2 days in a row, which is pretty unusual for her so we have been lazing around and doing nothing. Trish beat her new video game and I have been learning lots about my new camera.
Speaking of the new camera I can't upload any footage from it yet because I don't have the necessary software but I'm working on it. But I can tell you the video quality is stunning. I'm totally happy with it so far.

So while Trish has been playing Wii 18hours a day I have been reading scripts and figuring out the logistics of shooting my first theatrical short film. I have decided on a script named "Last Day" it's about an office worker who hates his cubicle life. I am making the film for an online film fest called Betrayal Fest. I am really excited to try a new style of film making, but I really have no idea what I'm doing. It can only be a max of 6 minutes so it shouldn't be to large of an undertaking but I still feel like I don't know what I'm getting into. haha.

I will keep my blog updated as I figure shit out.

Pics from the other day at the park.

New Camera is here

So my new camera arrived in the mail on friday afternoon. After unpacking everything and making a huge mess with packing peanuts (trish was thrilled) I am happpy to say I did not get scammed. The camera is perfect! So I have been fiddeling with it for the last couple days trying to figure out all the bells and whistles on it. Now it's sunny out today so I'm gonna take Tak to the dog park and get some test footage of it. I will post up the results later today.

Excited!
Panasonic HPX-170


Dakine Sequence camera pack
old and new. I didn't realise until I got them together the size difference. They look the same in pictures but the new camera is probably 10% bigger so I had to buy a new backpack cause it woulden't fit in my old one.

Random

So my "new" "editing" computer already crashed due to large amounts of STD's. It had more viruses than a pro ho in Whistler. yay. So anyway Im kind of bummed cause I was just starting to get it set up and working and now I need to re-format again. So anyway I shot a wierd time laps of me trish an Tak at this new dog park we found but I was going to cut it up and do something with it but now I can't so here it is all strait out of the camera.

Walkin in the park time laps from Corby Martin on Vimeo.

This park is huge my camera ran out of memory befor we were even half way around the loop.

Oh and my camera sat at customs for the last week, soooo it's on its way to me on the Canadian side of the boarder now hopefully it will get here by Monday next week.

time lapse

Another time lapse. I wish I had more to shoot up here but I don't so here ya go. My backyard at dusk. Count down to real camera getting here has started, hopefully by mid/late next week.

more time lapse testing from Corby Martin on Vimeo.

Another time lapse test

Here is another quick time lapse from last night. I'm just learning the new techniques of shooting DSLR time lapses.

another time laps test from Corby Martin on Vimeo.

On another topic my very patient wife decided that xmas is to far away and wanted toys NOW (stomp feet and make grumpy face) RIGHT NOW!!! so she is the proud new owner of a Nintendo Wii. It's actually quite fun and is a half decent work out playin the sports games. So I'm sure she will be updating face book hourly with whatever new game she is playing and how funny her Mii looks.

And speaking of impatience and toys my new HPX-170 HD video camera is somewhere in the air flying to me right now....or stuck in customs. But it's on it's way so that is sweet, feel free to contact me with filming work so I can pay this thing off.

DSLR time laps

So I have been playin around with my still camera making time lapses. Here are the first couple put together real quick. I am using my Nikon D70 DSLR with a remote intervalometer, I also used a custom made roll cage mount I built to mount the camera on the front bush bar on my truck.
I definitely need to fine tune my settings and learn what works with this.

DSLR time laps test from Corby Martin on Vimeo.

stuff an junk

So I got contacts........weird....



The whole famdamley at the dag park.


Happy TAKOOOOOOO away!

8 years!

So today is the 8 year aniversary of me and Trish being Trorb. I thought after getting married you only worry about the wedding aniversary but I guess not. Anyway it's been a pretty good 8 years and Im sure we will have another 80 if modern medacine permits and the baby boomers dont bankrupt the helthcare system.