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I finally managed to get the 2nd video for “A Step Greener” filmed and edited. It has been a busy few months but I am very happy with the progress I have made. This is the first video that I have edited and colour corrected using Davinci Resolve and I don’t think I will be going back to Premier for anything that features raw video or requires much grading. I think the options it offers and the overall quality of the image or quite noticable.

Also for this video Natalie helped out behind the camera, having a 2nd person involved was a real help in terms of focusing and spotting background detail issues that too often I end up not noticing when I am solo shooting.

I am quite happy with how the video has turned out and am excited to see how my next projects turn out with Resolve grading them.

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It has been a while since I have taken many photos and it was really good to get back into it on a trip back to Ireland. I eneded up using my BMPCC4K camera to take the pictures which isn’t the perfect photography camera. It takes nice raw images but you can’t review them in camera so it becomes a little like a film camera where you don’t know how your photos look until to get home and develop them. Which can be nice in it’s own way.

Overall I was very impressed by how much latitude the DNG files gave me to process them after the fact and it is something that I hope to experiment more with in the future. I was using a cheapish M42 speed booster and some vintage lenses and really liked the look they gave the photos.

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A Step Greener is a video series in which I plan to chart my journey this year to be more environmentally conscientious. This first video outlines the five areas in which I hope to assess and improve my overall carbon footprint. I am also using this as a way to get me back filming my own stuff after a work/life lull that has seen me not film/finish too many personal projects.

The single largest challenge of this project was our Cat Maisy is was quite insistent to join the video. You can hear her in the background quite a bit, there was also some interference from the road outside. For the next video I’m planning to experiment with some new mic placements to hopefully eliminate or at least greatly reduce this.