Scouting the Badlands

I decided to do a scouting trip this past Monday just to check out the distances and to see parking and places to eat for our local GTA ADE group. I did a short time lapse starting at Hwy 410 and Hwy 401 going north. It’s a pretty easy drive, just one left turn at…

Next Event – “The Badlands”

  Our next event will be at “The Badlands” in Caledon Ontario, a suggestion by Andre. It looks like a great place to get some spectacular shots. The details are as follows: Date: Thursday August 14th – updated because of weather and so Paul can make it 🙂 Time: 9:00 am (get there before people show up…

GTA ADEs in San Diego

A large group of our GTA ADEs are part of a large delegation of ADEs representing Canada at the 20th Anniversary Global ADE Summer Institute in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya) in San Diego, California. Take a look at the video from our day before the start of the institute.

Amazing Day at Albion Falls

What a day at Albion Falls, seven of the GTA ADEs were able to make it, we missed Gillian, Brian and Peter B who were also regulars but had some challenges making it to the Hamilton location. We missed you both. Albion falls did not disappoint as it produced some stunning photographs but also so…

Albion Falls Photo Safari

Our next event will be a photo safari to Albion Falls in Hamilton Ontario. Shawn was very happy about this since it is right in his backyard. I just found out from my cousin Lisa that Hamilton is the waterfall capitol of the world. Albion Falls is one of the most beautiful of the bunch.…

Next Event – Prepare for San Diego

As you all know our next Summer Institute is in San Diego and will be from Monday July 14th to Friday July 18th. In preparation for our application to the Institute we will be dedicating this entire day to preparatory and/or production of your Summer Institute Application video. If you have ideas, a script, need…

The Slider

On January 18th, 2014 our group decided to learn how to use a video slider. Essentially it is a device that allows you to capture video while sliding it on a rail system. My school’s slider is a 150cm Varavon with a Manfrotto 502 video head. The video below illustrates some of techniques we were…

The Importance of Audio – Microphones

This is a short video highlighting some of the audio activities we did on Saturday November 23, 2013 at St. Roch Catholic Secondary School in the RochTV studio. Everybody brought their cameras but the main audio recording camera was a Panasonic AG-HMC150. In one XLR input there was a Sennheiser wireless receiver for the lavaliere…

Another Great Day

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted but life does get busy. It was great to see everyone out again for the GTA ADE event. It was good to see that Colin’s kindergarten coverages did not give him another cold. We did miss Gillian who thought better of coming down into the GTA from…