Together with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, we produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for Viv Mag – an all digital magazine, which would allow us to create content that will be able to live on the iPad and other tablet devices where digital magazines can live.

Our collaboration with Cory and Ming has been a phonemonal experience and you’ll see a lot more great work coming from this team. Check out this featurette, which goes behind the scenes and shows how we put it all together.



Special thanks to Campion for taking a risk with me. Without the bravery of a good client, we wouldn’t be able to bring you work of this caliber.

Extra special thanks to B2Pro Lighting, Red Camera & Jarred Land.

Extra extra special thanks to Chuck Carey and the good people at Troika Design Group without whom we would still be waiting for renders.

To view the content in it’s entirety, please check out www.alexxhenry.com/ipad.

-Alexx

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It has been very busy this month at Alexx Henry Photography and we have a couple of great projects to share with you in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile… we’ve been named photo studio of the month at Samy’s Camera this February and our friends at Obscura Digital have lent us a Multi-Touch Display to help show off our work. We’ve posted on them before, but check them out here for more goodness.  If you’re in Los Angeles, please drop by Samy’s from February 15-21 and check out the Multi-Touch along with a print gallery of our work.

Also, on February 23rd, Samy’s will be hosting us for a talk about Living Art. You can get tickets and more information here.

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Vincent Laforet along with Stu Maschwitz and David Nelson put together this vignette that shows off the incredible low light sensitivity of the Canon 1ds MKIV.

Vincent Laforet created a ton of buzz with his Reverie film shot with the Canon 5D Mark II and it looks like he’s onto something again – this time with the new Canon 1D Mark IV. The entire 3 minute segment is shot at ISO 6400 on the new professional DSLR.

Watch it in HD here.

More on the camera on Photography Bay’s Canon 1D Mark IV Reviews and Resources.

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Here’s our “Living” Magazine Cover and Spread released with the October issue of Outside Magazine. Photographed with the Red One camera, we created our vision of how a motion-magazine of the not-too-distant future would look based on emerging technologies like flexible OLED and E Ink.

Music is “Gone Gone Days” by Two Years Before the Mast and “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” which has got to be my favorite song title in the world by El Ten Eleven. You can buy El Ten Eleven’s music here: itunes.com/elteneleven

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We shot triathlete Chris Lieto for a Living Magazine Cover and Spread for Outside Magazine. Not only did we shoot the print edition of the magazine, but we are also making a living version to give you a glimpse at what a magazine of the future might look like.

Here is a quick teaser to whet your appetite. Stay tuned for the final version which will be released with the October issue of Outside Magazine.

Also, don’t forget to join our Living Art Contest. Make your own Living Art and move us with your image!

Music by Ratatat. The song is “Cherry” off their self-titled album Ratatat.
Check them out here: ratatatmusic.com
Buy their songs here: itunes.com/ratatat

This video was shot using the RED and the Canon 5D Mark II

-Andrew

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This has been out for awhile but just in case you havn’t seen it, Jon Rawlinson captures the 2nd largest aquarium in the world and displays it beautifully as living art.

Truly stunning…
-Andrew

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Thanks to everyone for all the terrific feedback and comments on this and all the other blogs that carried the Living One Sheet Video! It’s great to be part of this discussion. This is such an incredibly exciting time to be an image maker. We are at the dawn of something new.

It won’t be long before the Harry Potter vision of the future is realized with moving portraits adorning newspapers and adverts. I am so excited about all the possibilities with converging photography with motion and thrilled to be on the front lines.

I’ve been getting some feedback about how these changes are exciting but scary, and some fear about the barrier to entry (cost of Red etc…) and I’d just like to state the obvious and say that yeah, change can be scary, but as Heraclitus pointed out 2500 years ago, the only constant is change. So as artists, we wind up facing the fundamental Darwinian axiom- evolve or dissolve.

Sure the Red One is expensive, but you can rent. And even still, the video image quality from the 5DMII is breathtaking, and that is certainly affordable.

So I challenge you to go out and try something. Take your aesthetic and vision as an image maker and try something new. I’d love to see what you can come up with. As an added incentive, there’s even a contest in the works. Stay tuned for the deets.

Best,

Alexx

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As promised, here is our experience with using the Red One Camera, chronicling our voyage beyond the still image.  Looking forward to our next project featuring living art portraits. Stay tuned… After the video, take a peek at the links to see the final results.

We’re very excited about all the possibilities with converging photography and motion. Big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. Especially Pam, DJ and Chad over at Hallmark who championed the idea. It’s not every client who is willing to take a risk with something new and they deserve recognition for this.

Living One Sheets: Final Versions after the jump:

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From dpreview.com: Canon has announced a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR enabling manual exposure when shooting videos. With the updated version, users will be able to manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings in the video mode. The new firmware will be available for download on 2 June 2009 from Canon’s website.

Let the fun begin.

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Just ran into this video by the White Rabbits directed by Andrew Droz Palermo. It is a definite watch. The simple set design and circular motion really make this video stand out. This just goes to show you don’t need a complicated and expensive video set to create something amazing. The circular movement really helps you experience the flow of the song. When a music video matches all the elements of music, editing, and lighting together, it’s a beautiful thing. It can make you really feel a song. This video reminds me of one of my old favorite music videos by Taking Back Sunday.

For more continue after the jump
-Andrew 

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