We’re two days away from production on Aaron Marinel’s 35mm short film, Rust. I thought I’d share a little snippet of something I’ve been working on. We may or may not be shooting an underwater scene.

Finished our final film project, Loves Me Not, at Full Sail University. We shot 35mm 2.35:1 on Arri Lite cams. I got to collaborate with two amazing directors, Ewa Pazera and Rebecca Hodges. They had a fantastic script that has been baking since February.

Loves Me Not opens with a love scene between Jan and Helena. As the story unfolds, their relationship unravels. What looks beautiful on the surface has a dark reality behind it.

This was my first chance to shoot 35mm film, and it’s going to be hard to go back to digital. I had an amazing experience. The format is unbelievably flexible and forgiving.

The 20 minute short is currently in post production and will be entering two film festivals before the end of the month. Let’s see what happens.

Last weekend I shot for Other People’s Property. They brought in a beautiful set of models and amazing clothes. Other People’s Property find amazing pieces of forgotten clothing, revamps them, and then resells them to help benefit charities and reduce our clothing footprint. It was a great cause and a fun shoot.

We shot in the Peabody Hotel. Location secured by Sabrina Cooper of Black Castle Productions.

We used two 480EX via Pocketwizards with a range of bounces, reflectors, gels and diffusion. Shot mostly with the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS.

After relentlessly searching the internet trying to find one of these rarities, an Iscorama 36 Anamorphic lens finally came in the mail. I opened up the box just about three hours ago, and here is some test footage for you guys.

These lenses where originally made for 35mm still photography, but failed to find a place in the market. Now with the new wave of DSLR cinematography, these lenses have been rediscovered.

I’m very excited that I found one and will be shooting a few upcoming projects on it.

If you are wondering how it works, simply research anamorphic lenses, but in short, it optically squeezes more image across onto the image. In camera, it looks squished. When you unsqeeze it in editing, it gives you a wider image than with normal lenses. It also creates some really cool light flares (watch the new StarTrek).

I got the chance to film at Grace Fellowship Church’s awesome Christmas Eve extravaganza. Aaron Keyes among other talented worship leaders–including a rather large children’s choir–where in attendance. Had a really great time. I think around 8,000 other people did too.