Check out These Great Articles!
Rick Wise ~ Lighting with Shadows
Cowdog ~ Poets of the Fall/Stobe Harju Music Videos
Nick Griffin ~ Inside HBOs The Wire
Mike Gondek ~ Dean Collins On Lighting
Jim Harvey ~ HandsOnHDV: How to Setup, Light & Shoot Great Looking Interviews
Leo Ticheli ~ Low Cost Professional Lighting Solutions
Barend Onneweer ~ Shooting for Chromakeying
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Poets of the Fall/Stobe Harju Music Videos
Creative COW Magazines Music Video issue featured a look at the making of Poets of the Falls Carnival of Rust, one of the most imaginative music videos we have seen. Created in Helsinki, Finland by director Stobe Harju and director of photography Eki Halkka, you can read about the making of Carnival of Rust in our free Music Video issue, and here in this magazine extras page you will find links to the videos, interview podcasts, more on the band, their music, as well as the music videos of Stobe and Eki.
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Dean Collins On Lighting
CreativeCOW leader, Mike Gondek examines Dean Collins On Lighting: Live at Brooks Institute of Photography 1991 and published by Software Cinema. Although, this was presented in 1991, Mike believes the content is timeless material.
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Cinematography
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Inside HBOs The Wire
Set in Baltimore, Maryland, The Wire will begin its fifth and final season in January 2008 on HBO. As different from standard TV as it gets, the show has received the highest levels of critical acclaim, being referred to by multiple reviewers as the best show on television. In its last issue of 2006 Time Magazine ranked The Wire first on its list of 10 Best TV Shows. And Finally recognized as the best series on TV. Sorry, Tony (Soprano), was Newsweeks description. Creative COWs Nick Griffin spent time on set earlier this year and interviewed one of the shows Producers. Heres his inside glimpse into The Wire and its production.
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Lighting Design Pros
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Shooting for Chromakeying
In addition to his tutorial on how to pull a usable matte from badly lit blue or green screens, Barend Onneweer has put together a list of things to consider when shooting for chromakeying.
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Lighting Design Pros
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Low Cost Professional Lighting Solutions
In this article, Leo Ticheli looks at some of the lower-cost options for acheiving beautifully lit professional lighting design for your shoots. These solutions aren't the 'G.E. bulb in a cardboard box' solutions that some try to point to as acceptable low-cost lighting -- but if you are looking for true professional lighting done on a budget, then Leo has some great information for you...
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Lighting Design Pros
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Lighting with Shadows
In this extended version of his article in the Creative Cow Visual Effects Issue, lighting expert and instructor Rick Wise draws on his decades of experience to illustrate how shadows can be the most important part of how a scene is lit. Learn how to control the direction and quality of your lighting design to add texture, dimension, and force to your images.
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