Is It The Filmmaker or The Camera That Creates Great Looking Nature and Wildlife Footage? How many times have you watched Nat Geo or Animal Planet and said to yourself, "If only I had the camera those guys use I could get some great footage too"? I know I used to say it all the [...]
When The Weather Turns Bad Do You Pack It In? You Could Be Missing Some Great Footage! Everyone loves to go out an film nature and wildlife on a warm, sunny day. I mean who wouldn't? Give me a warm Spring day with golden sunlight and I'm off with my video camera in a heartbeat. [...]
The Trees Speak to Those Who Choose To Listen Last night as I was finishing up my location scouting at Indian Creek Nature Center, I stopped again at Founder's Grove and just sat and took everything in. I felt the wind on my face, I watched as the branches of the trees swayed to and [...]
Scouting Indian Creek Nature Center For Locations Today is the first full day of being able to focus on the theme for the DVC/UWOL Charity Film Challenge. Â I spent some time last night looking up legends and folklore on trees. Found a great Native American story about why the trees lose their leaves. problem is, [...]
It's Go Time! Today the theme for the 6th annual DVC/UWOL Charity Film Challenge was announced. And the theme is... "TREES". At first it sounds deceptively easy to crank out a four minute film about trees. But then you start to think about it and you realize you just can't shoot a bunch of trees [...]
An Opportunity to Follow Along As I Try to Create a Film in 14 Days! A few years ago on the Digital Video Information Network a bunch of nature and wildlife filmmakers got together to create a film challenge to build friendships, grow as filmmakers and to just plain have fun. The challenge we were [...]
Standing Tall Isn't Always The Best Way To Shoot Nature and Wildlife This nature and wildlife filming tip is actually a supplement to my Ten Tips for filming nature and wildlife eBook. But after watching the video again, I thought it was such an important point that I wanted to put it here for anyone [...]
Even though I'm releasing this video on National Dunce Day, it seems that no matter what day it is, there are certain things I overlook time and time again when I'm out filming nature and wildlife. The dictionary defines a dunce as someone who is incapable of learning. I don't think I'd consider myself a [...]
Why do you film nature and wildlife? I've always loved anything that had to do with animals. My parents have an old 8mm film of me trying to feed an apple to a rocking horse or talking to an inflatable elephant. I took my first real photograph when I was eight and of course, it [...]
Whenever I meet another seasoned nature and wildlife filmmaker, the conversation invariably evolves into our favorite moments that we've experienced out in the field. When I was first trying to learn wildlife filmmaking my conversations almost always revolved around camera gear. What's the best camera for filming wildlife, how to find wildlife, what filters should [...]
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