Some of my favorite stories have come from working with Save Our Youth. They are a mentoring organization that does a brilliant job of matching their mentors with mentees. The …
Snowmass Balloon Festival 2011 Video
The Snowmass Balloon Festival. Totally cool experience in the stunning Colorado Rockies. I was privileged to go shoot this piece and absolutely loved the experience. Save the date next year, …
Sox Place, Denver Colorado
From SoxPlace.com, “SOX PLACE is for you… the gutter punk, the train rider, the homeless youth, you who just need something to eat, you who just need a safe place …
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II – I love it, I hate it
Cheap lenses… I’m all about them. I bought a set of cheap old Pentax lenses that I used to shoot Play Her Song. But as you’ll see from the test …
Accellos Client Case Study
Accellos has fantastic Warehouse Management Software that helps large warehouses management a vast number of SKU’s and varying product. They wanted a video to show off some of their hard …
5 MUST READ books for the Modern Day Filmmaker
The internet popularizes brevity and immediacy. Books almost always have more time and energy invested into their content. There’s no “update” feature to strikeout and rewrite. In a book, writers …
Subaru STI
A short production shot in and around beautiful Colorado (though this piece doesn’t showcase the land much!). My buddy owns a nicely upgraded Subaru STI. We realized that it was …
Denver Video Production 2011 Reel, James Drake Films
2011 has been a busy year, tons of productions still in the works! It has been a pleasure working on all of them. Everything in the reel above I shot …
Up close with the AG-AF100 at VidExpo in Denver
VidExpo in Denver has been great. Denver has never been the biggest Video Production town on the market, but it certainly has a sizable passionate group of video and film …
DSLR video downfalls, and what I’m hoping for in the Canon 5D Mark III
There’s a possibility of a Canon 5D Mark III announcement coming in March April, according to Canon Rumors . Needless to say, I wait hourly for that announcement. Sure, I’m …
Twitter vs. Filmmaker
It’s astonishing to cruise around Twitter and look at the hundreds of updates from filmmakers around the world. I follow a little over 200, a good number but small in …
Forgotten Leaves, A Tribute to Fall
Ahhh, the fall. Always a time of somber emotions and cooling weather. This short piece closely examines autumn beauty often hidden in plain site… leaves. Dressed in fall colors for …