Usman Riaz @ Coca Cola HQ

Part of a Diwali celebration at the Coca-Cola HQ in Atlanta. Had the pleasure of meeting such a talent.

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Mic Check

So the latest rig I assembled is a D600 mounted to a JuicedLink pre amp, providing phantom power to a Shure SM58A Beta, which in turn feeds a very clean audio signal back to the camera.

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Nikon 50mm 1.4D on Nikon D600

Revisiting one of the many 50mm lenses I used to own.

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Hear the Noise that Moves so Soft and Low

In cinema, the protagonist (or villain) usually watches movies on old film projectors, with only the flickering of the machine as the soundtrack. Nothing that artsy for me, just watching my random video clips on the PS3 or phone. With cinegraphs joining animated gifs in the looping visual eye candy, it's not so bad losing the audio in most of my video files. It's not like on camera audio is any good anyway...

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Vietnamese Lunar New Year Miss Viet 2013

Vietnamese Community of Georgia Lunar New Year Celebration and Miss Viet Georgia Pageant | February 10, 2013 | Norcross, GA

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NAAAP Impact 2012

http://www.naaapatlanta.org http://www.kollaborationatlanta.org

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Slider Practice Video

Tech Notes: Thanks to Van and Anister for helping, and of course Vy for playing. :0)  These are some random video clips of me practicing with the DIY slider.  I’m going to stop using the word “tests” for certain gear related things, because these are basically the times when I practice with my various tools. […]

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Nikon 1 and DIY Slider

Custom Built "DIY" Slider for video.

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TEA Walk 2011

7th Annual Together Empowering Asian Americans Walk, Organized by CPACS and featuring the diverse community in Metro Atlanta.

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Video: Lao New Year New Iberia

Short Video Clips from Lao New Year in New Iberia (Broussard), LA. First part shot with a Digital Harinezumi for the vintage look in contrast to the footage from the Canon 5D mk II + Nikon lens.

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Video: Digital Harinezumi

Short Video Clips with the Digital Harinezumi, a Japanese camera with vintage aesthetics. Update 2025: It looked very vintage back then (2011), and now even more so.  My how the years have flown by.

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Video: RLCD Festival 2010

Notes: Just random clips thrown together, 5D mk II and D90, mostly handheld, and of course manual focus on everything.  One could see the advantages of the little “HD” cameras out there with their extreme depth of focus (i.e. every unnecessary thing in focus), but I still like the messups and the old 16mm look.  Song is […]

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Lao’d and Proud

Notes: All the images are screengrabs (D90 Movies) from a few weeks ago at our local Korean coffee shop with ai Thavisouk…I’ve wanted to do this type of documentary work for awhile now, just gathering some like minded people and sitting them in front of the camera.  Granted the environment wasn’t the most serene, but when a […]

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4th of July

Video of fireworks that surprisingly fit together well with M83's "We Own the Sky"

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Video: Yasukazu Kano

Featuring: Yasukazu Kano and Miyamoto Takana Notes: Really amazing flute player and musician from Japan, You might recognize the theme songs from some Miyazaki Films: Castle in the Sky, Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), Turns into a DJ Shadow drumfest at the end, “filmed” with a D90 and 105mm 2.8 Micro VR, Maum Bakery, Doraville, GA

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Royal Lao Classical Dancers

Royal Lao Classical Dancers Clarence Brown Theatre | UTK, Knoxville, Tennessee

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Lathsene Village Schoolkids

From our trip to Laos.  The preschool location was in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most bombed areas in Laos, and one of the poorest.  The region also has the sad honor of being first in bombie farming accidents.  Lathsene village lacked running water and even electricity, but the schoolchildren and villagers treated us […]

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