Archive for December, 2008

Gallagher Winter Pics

Gallagher Winter Pics

Meet the Gallagher family. About 4 years ago we met these lovely folks while manning our video booth at the Redding Wedding Extravaganza. (Side note: no, we don’t shoot wedding videos anymore. Unless, of course, you want your wedding shot in 4k. Call me, we’ll talk.) The Gallaghers have since become friends and they’ve multiplied into a little family. We were privledged to do some Christmas pics for them. Here’s the strobist rundown for all the camera nerds out there: * Two kino 4 banks as 45degree kickers. (It’s not that we needed kinos for this, it’s just that’s all we had.) * Nikon Sb24 with shoot thru umbrella overhead. * Silver reflector on ...

Gallagher Christmas

Gallagher Christmas

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HV20 Underwater Housing

HV20 Underwater Housing

After a few failed attempts at building an underwater housing device for the Red (can you say large open tupperware with a viewing window at the bottom? Me neither), I settled on the simpler task of building one for the lowly Canon HV20. It was pretty easy to do, actually. A few pieces of ABS from Lowes, a little pipe dope, some teflon tape, and a used filter attached with silicon. The final setup setup looked kind of like a weapon with its nifty handle (which I filled with lead weights for stability) Location of choice was Clear Creek right beneath the falls. Most of the healthy salmon split once I jumped ...