The quest for controlled depth of field and 35mm optics. It was the combination of the Letus Extreme and the EX1 that gave me something to talk about. Piccadilly Furs HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. I love the guy with the coffee cup running… mac bandwidth to be eaten up within 1 day of going live…this was before I was embedding with Exposure Room and then Vimeo, before HD embedding…There are some lovely moments in here, the people, the timelapses, the slow motion of the couple crossing the street. This piece was a huge success on my blog. I actually took the camera, adaptor, tripod and lenses out on the tube for this. Loads of info there, including what lenses I used etc… I will be doing a commentary for all the films featured on this blog soon… but just do a search in the search button for the blog for each of these. The first video I posted on my blog with analysis of the shoot was shot with the Sony EX1 and the Letus Extreme. Not a great low light combo but it worked out here with a little additional light…Dennis Wood the maker of the Brevis adaptor said he cried when he watched it. I am still really proud of it and it was probably my first “people” short, if you will, in all but name…I shot this on my old HVX200 with the Brevis adaptor. Homeless Portraits from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. My Homeless Portraits short below is something I cut myself from the footage… The first job I did was a doco series for Channel 4. During the 17 years of working as staff for Sky News there was no need for me to have my own site… after going freelance there was. My website itself had been going a year prior to this, just with iweb to host my showreel in order to get work. Crisp beautiful full HD video, lovely overcrank, great slow motion, great for timelapse, solid state recording and it worked a treat with my 35mm adaptors…well not strictly true, it worked a treat with the Letus adaptors but not my other ones. A lovely camera that I instantly fell in love with. So… the blog started with my purchase of a Sony EX1. I am sorry if I don’t always get to you, I try my best! Shooting my first 35mm adaptor footage. Cristina has come on board to help organise stuff but I want to be the person answering emails and comments as much as I can. I try and answer as many questions as I can and I do it all myself. I plan on doing one in Amsterdam the second Saturday in December with Gert Kracht. I will continue to do as many of these as possible. The meet ups too have been essential… Connecting with real people has been great. Thanks to all of you and the enormous amount of people I have not mentioned. You lot who come to my blog and read it and come back! Without you, the blog would not be here. Cristina and Jon of course, Angeline, my new and dear friend Eric Kessler who is a big supporter of mine, my bro and terrible critic, Steve Weiss, Den Lennie, Rick McCallum who saw something in my work that many hadn’t… Beth Manning, Tom Lowe for inspiring me, Suresh Kara, Karen Abad, Tom Guilmette, Sara, Dennis Wood, Hien Le for making such an awesome 35mm adaptor, Aaron Pinto, Julie for being the person who started me off onto something different with the “If I were PM series”, the Vimeo team, the Exposure Room team, and my dear friends on twitter, the ones I have met and the ones I haven’t. There are too many people to thank for the past 3 years so I am going to try and mention some of them but forgive me if I don’t mention you by name. Reel Life: What Drives Philip Bloom? from Cristina Valdivieso + Jon Connor on Vimeo. My good friends Cristina Valdivieso and Jon Connor from have done a long interview with me talking about my work. I wanted to take a look back at my personal work that I have posted here and reflect on the change of camera gear I have used. Of course during the past 3 years so much has changed in the world of cameras. Reading back at some of the posts makes it feel like a lifetime ago. It actually feels like a lot longer than that. Wow, 3 years have past since I started my blog. Show you appreciation for my blog by donating to my fight against prostate cancer this Movember! Please!! Tweet I got close to the actual 15 million mark!
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