DIY Steadi Steady Cam - a little warning...

I made this video to show the steady-cam I made as well as show a little footage shot with it. If you are looking at purchasing or making a steady-cam device I have one piece of advice (more like a 'warning'). They almost work too well. I mean they can be SO SMOOTH that they allow the camera to move so easily and slightly. Don't despair, with a little (a LOT) of practice you can get great shots. They pretty much REQUIRE two hands to operate effectively and get good shots. The one I made went through a few different design changes until I was satisfied. It turned out to be very smooth and fulfilled exactly my warning above. If you are serious about getting smooth walking shots, you can pull it off with a little practice.



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Nike Skills Challenge & Nike Fieldhouse

I just finished up shooting video at the Nike Fieldhouse here in Omaha just 2 blocks away from the College World Series (CWS). I hooked up with a local photographer who was hired by these guys working for Nike. Today is Monday. It started last Wednesday at a baseball field in Ralston NE (Orval Smith Field) where the Skills Challenge took place. Then when the CWS started Saturday the 18th, the Nike Fieldhouse opened up in a retail space just two blocks from the TD Ameritrade Park, the new home for the CWS, I shot video for 2 hours on Sat, Sun and today (Mon) all to make clips for a 2 minute internal promo video for the guys that ran the Nike thing here in Omaha.
Right now it's 10:00 and I just got done capturing video off two Mini DV Tapes. I'll probably edit tomorrow for it is bedtime.
I have to say it was fun to a point but today, the video session ran into some other things I had to do and I had to push them back to tomorrow when I could have got them done today. It's fun to do what you love and when you can make some money at it, why not? But since last Wednesday till today I discovered where my 'line' is when it comes to working for someone else.

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Central Eagles vs Creighton Prep

Tonight we are at the Central Prep football game which is being played at Rosenblatt Stadium.

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Now there are four...

Last night I showed my girls how to run the lawnmower and cut the grass. I know this, my son knows it now now the girls do. Now there are four.

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Vala's Pumpkin Patch 2010

Thais past weekend the family and I went to Vala's Pumpkin Patch for our annual pumkin experience. This year we got to take our exchange student Rachel. She had fun as well as our kids. The weather was perfect.

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Just way too nice

I couldn't resist another post of how perfect today is. It is truely a day worth remembering. I can see at least 50 other people enjoying the same.

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Me and two others

Today is about as perfect as a day can get. Only myself and two others roode our motorcycles today... shame, y'all are missing out.

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After the two snowfalls we had last week (the latter delivering much more snow than the first) we get freezing drizzle this morning which means... scraping.

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