New Tutorials

I’ve been experimenting a bit recently with documenting things I’m learning in After Effects.  Last week, I animated the background of a text logo for a software project, and thought I’d record how it was done:

 

 

I also did a follow up video showing how you can take an AE composition with transparency, resize it, and export it to an animated GIF using both AE and Photoshop:

Enjoy!

Top Images of 2016

2016 was a pretty good year for me photographically.  I travelled to a lot of new places (and may familiar ones), met new people, reconnected with others, shot more video and commercial work, and (according to Lightroom) snapped nearly 45K frames.  (Admittedly many are timelapse sequences).  Here, I’d like to present ten of my favorite landscape images shot during the year, in chronological order.

 

1. Sunset on Horsetail Falls

Each February, for about two weeks, the sunset light on Horsetail Falls in Yosemite lines up so that only the falls are lit.

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