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What We Use Video Series

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One of the things that happens often, is friends and colleagues ask what equipment we use, how we pack it, travel with it, and so forth. Further, with interns coming and going (40+, to date), it was a frequent occurrence that I was training and explaining to them what we use, and how we use it. So, during what was our slow period around the holidays, we ramped up and produced a series of videos. All together, they total 1 hour, 49 minutes, and took a month to produce, from production meetings to finishing editing – much more than I had expected to commit, but none-the-less it was a worthwhile endeavor. I’ve been collecting video for some time, from shoots and setup images, and so I’ve combined related video from those to an explaination of each case. I was inspired by Chase Jarvis’ similar series, and am pleased with my results.

Below is the introduction, and I have transcribed every segment, and, on AssignmentConstruct, there are links to every piece of equipment we could find on either Adorama, Amazon, or, B&H, in case you’re looking for that tool yourself.

Below the video is a link to each of the segments on AssignmentConstruct. Let me know what you think!
Introduction of The What We Use Video Series

Individual Segments:
Softbox & Light Modifier Kit  |||  Lighting Stands Case  |||  Primary Hensel Vela Lighting Kit  |||  Rololights Continuous Source Lighting  |||  Rololights Lighting Stands Kit  |||  Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III Kit  |||  Nikon D3 Kit  |||  Jacobsen Sound Blimp Kit  |||  California Sunbounce Lighting Reflector  |||  Gels & Gelly Rolls  |||  Lowel DP Hotlight Kit  |||  Lowel Omni & Tota Hotlight Kit  |||  Macbook Pro Laptop Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Bi-Tube Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Kit  |||  Hensel Porty Ringlight Kit  |||  Hensel Tria 1500 Kit  |||  Hensel Tria 3000 Kit  |||  Hensel Vela Add-On Kit  |||  Cord Kit  |||  Kenyon Gyro Kit  |||  Reviewing Kit  |||  Photo Equipment Carts  |||  Photo Equipment Cases  |||  Computers & Monitors – Travel Kit  |||  Fog Machine  |||  Hasselblad Kit  |||  White Lightning Lighting Kit  |||  Video Kit  |||  Audio Entertainment Kit  |||  Audio Sound Kit  |||  Sandbags  |||  Stands

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Originally published on Photo Business News & Forum on January 23, 2008. Comments are closed; this post is part of the archive.

10 thoughts on “What We Use Video Series”

  2. John,

    I don’t know if this only happens to me but some pictures and now this video embedded on your posts are being displayed over the actual text of the posting (does that make sense?!).

    Anyway… If I find an email to contact you I’ll send a screen capture of what I’m trying to describe…

    And for the techie savvys out there I’m on a Windows XP using IE 6.
  4. Wow, great idea John. Thanks for the b/s/t you put into this series.

    (BTW, if the previous poster were to use Firefox instead of IE, the pic over text problem will go away).
  5. John-

    I just finished watching a bunch of the segments. Very well done. I can only imagine how long they took to produce. Know that they have value outside of your interns.
  6. John
    The D3 link is bad – And I have a similar problem with the image over the text – actually it looks that way but the text is in a one character column to the left of the image – in this case “Below the video l” is left of the image/video window. This has been occuring for a long time on you blog I just thought it was my IE7.
    Great blog John.
    Thanks
    Joe Sorrentino
  7. John,

    This is a great resource! I like how you included even little things like the sandbags and cords. Very instructive.

    The gyro video actually shows the one with the laptop, though.

    David
  8. Good series. Would hate to see the grand total for all that gear. I couldn’t afford the bags you put them in, let alone what’s inside.

    Couple bad links though. As mentioned, Nikon D3 is bad, also, the Kenyon Giro kit has the laptop video, not the gyro video.
  9. John

    Great job on the videos!!!…. Why do you have two camera kits…. a Nikon and a Canon kit? wouldn’t it be easier to stick with one or the other?

    Vasiliy

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