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  • Barefoot Running (almost)

    This morning I woke up with every muscle below my knee screaming in pain.  Apparently there are lots of tiny muscles I didn’t know I had. Why?  I’ve been hearing about this barefoot running trend, and wanted to give it a shot.  Obviously it’s not a great idea to simply launch on a three- or…

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  • Easy Ways to Improve Sound in Your Videos

    You could go out and spend a wad of cash on all the latest high-tech sound recording equipment money can buy. Or you can do some easy things that will go a long way toward improving the sound quality of your videos: – invest in an external microphone – it doesn’t have to be a…

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  • The Blackbirds Came Back – Wildlife Videography

    I was pretty excited about the opportunity to do a little more “wildlife photography” in my back yard. The blackbird pair that I featured in the video “Learning to Fly” came back for another brood. I saw one of them fly into the ivy that climbs one side of our house and grabbed a closer…

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  • Underwater Videography

    I posted a few weeks ago about having to “make do” with a still camera to do underwater “video-“graphy – and then using photoshop and effects to make it look less like a slideshow.  Well this time I made it work with actual video.  Granted, there are a lot sexier underwater videos out there made…

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  • Too much time on your hands? Try this at home!

    So my kids tell me this is SO last week, but I thought this video was HILARIOUS – somehow genius and somehow disturbing that this is what some people do in their spare time: Technology has brought the internet to 2 billion people, and a standard of living resulting in about 2-4 hours of spare…

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