What the Hell is TTL?

This weeks episode on FRAMED Equip Tips is all about Flash and using proprietary triggering systems to fire your speedlights such as Nikon CLS.  We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of TTL modes versus Manual modes.  And for a special treat, we discuss the newer Pocketwizard TT1 and TT5 Flexes and their ability to cheat sync speed.
Basically, we get high speed sync in TTL mode with all the advantages of radio triggering.  Join special guest, Scott Jarvie and myself in this informal conversation jam packed with information.

Our second video is a fun blooper reel of last week's episode with Ryan Muirhead.

Other news is that we've nearly completed post production of Zombie Prom-- The Movie in which I was the Director of Photography, Camera Operator, and Colorist.  The short film was created in efforts to promote Strankenstein's Zombie Prom, an annual community event held in Ogden, Utah where all proceeds go to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  The film will premiere soon to a local theater (to be announced), the web, and film festivals across the country and potentially, world.

Another episode of The Basement as well as more Behind the Scenes Shoots coming soon...

The Devil Works in Mysterious Ways

The X96 Radio From Hell Film Festival 2011 was a major success and fun had by all in attendance.  The amount of talent showcased in this small local festival was through the roof.  I enjoyed screening all the films.

Our Entry, The Devil Works in Mysterious Ways brought cheers and laughs from the audience.  In case you missed the festival, you can watch it now.

Launch of the New Site

After several years of discussion, we've decided to create a web page dedicated to our small production company Kaptain Kieodie Productions. The Kaptain has been a near life-long endeavor of a group of friends who started making home movies to entertain themselves. Now, over 17 years later, we have taken our combination of education and experience to produce cutting edge industrial, wedding, and commercial video as well as engage in the local Independent Film Community.

Our latest short film was created for the Radio Station X96's Radio from Hell Film Festival which will be premiering Wednesday February 23, 2011 at 7:00PM at:

The Tower Theater

876 E. 900 S.

Salt Lake City, UT 84105

Until then, take the jump over to the new website at Kaptain Kieodie.com

The 48 Hour Film Project

I just wrapped on our third production for the 48 Hour Film Project's stop here in Salt Lake City. I feel we created our best short film yet. And with our new hardware, we were able to create a true cinema feel with amazing color grading and a nice shallow Depth of Field.

The 48 Hour Film Project is an international competition which takes place in many cities throughout the world, Salt Lake being one of them. It's primary competitors range from beginning amateurs all the way to SAG talent and professional indie film makers. It's basically a run and gun fly by the seat of your pants deal where you have only 48 hours to write, film, edit, and produce a completed original 4-7 minute short film. And when I state original, that includes all music and dialog too. To make the competition official and prevent any pre-production, you have no idea what your film's subject matter is going to be until the Friday night kickoff where each team draws a genre out of a hat. From there, you are given a prop, line of dialog, character name and their career which must be implemented into the film.

This year, our team had the following:
-Genre: Film Noir
-Prop: Egg
-Line of Dialog: "that's what I'm here for."
-Character: Ed or Edna Keegan who is a reporter

We made a great film and it will premiere on the Big Screen tomorrow night. We are excited and anticipate winning something this year. We had an excellent crew. I love making indie films as much as I love photography! The film will be loaded to YouTube and Vimeo later this week following the premiere.