Just received my copies of "Tideland" by Mitch Cullin with my cover design.

So I just received my copies of the amazing novel "Tideland" by Mitch Cullin with my cover design. I have to say it looks really good in person. I have been looking at it on the screen for the last year or two looking forward to seeing it on the cover when the fourth print edition was released. Today I got my first copies and was really impressed with the quality.

You can now purchase the book with my cover on Amazon and in a good book store near you very soon.

I also recommend you watching the movie of the same title directed by Terry Gilliam. A great movie and really captures the feeling of the book.

Also check out Mitch Cullin's other books, have a search on Amazon and if you like Tideland check out the rest.

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g. (An amazing short film by J. Xavier Velasco)

Found this on vimeo the other day and I was blown away. It engrossed me from the first second to the last. It was shot so well and just sucked you into the story. The creator J. Xavier Velasco states that it was shot all hand held with a canon 5D mk2 and a few lenses and virtually no budget. Shows what can be achieved when you have vision and creativity. This puts a lot of big budget movies to shame in my opinion. I loved the hand held aesthetic, I am not a fan of complete precision and the slight hand shake in this only adds to the feeling, atmosphere and narrative. I think that if this was shot using steady cams, glide cams and other expensive gear it would not have had the same impact (well on me anyway).

Watch this and see what great vision and creativity can achieve.

Watch it full screen for full impact.

g. from J. Xavier Velasco on Vimeo.

Film Colour Correction

A really cool tutorial for colour correcting your videos to get looks similar to Hollywood films. Its a great tutorial to get you started, i personally don't care for the extreme blueish correcting in this tutorial but i'm sure other people will love it. He shows you everything from quick colour correcting to adding vignetting to put more emphasis on your characters.

This is a good tutorial on simple image colouring and theory which is very relevant to stills photography too.

Have a look at this if you are interested in movie making, infact the whole article on movie making with your dslr is pretty informative.

Enjoy.

Episode 22: Creating a Summer Blockbuster Film Look from Red Giant Software on Vimeo.

Find the start of the whole article here:

Whole DSLR Cinema Article

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