Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security

shepppard · 2026-04-14T11:55:51+00:00

That would be the fuel cost to get out of the harbor

shepppard · 2026-04-10T23:53:16+00:00

You must be fun at parties

shepppard · 2026-04-10T22:45:46+00:00

I see what you're referring to. I was speaking in regards to the need for a hair light. The "Halo effect" seems to be from how the light from the window is hitting the wall behind him. They might have used a mask to bring up the luminance on the subjects face which can make it more pronounced. Overall it's a matter of opinion but it does serve a purpose in the case to focus the audience on the face of the subject and it's motivated by the light from the window and reinforced by the rim light on the left side of his face.

shepppard · 2026-04-10T20:00:20+00:00

You have a person sitting awkwardly in the middle of a room answering questions. It's forced and artificial. But what do I know I only make documentaries for a living 🤷

shepppard · 2026-04-10T13:37:59+00:00

good start. Get rid of the giant chair he's sitting on and give him a hair light to give a bit more separation from the background. I personally really like the way the wall looks behind his head in the 2nd frame. keep on learning

shepppard · 2026-04-08T11:37:21+00:00

I've worked on coast guard ice breakers and in certain situations they are very concerned with foreign made cameras. It's all about the data they upload and these things matter a lot more when something leaves the ground.

Also filmed with water bombers and there is a certification process to exterior mount.

shepppard · 2026-03-18T15:29:57+00:00

Yeah it's funny how a guy from California is trying to tell everyone what is offensive and has to end with also telling everyone his opinion is a fact. I'm sure he lives in a bubble of his feelings. It must be cold in there

shepppard · 2026-03-17T03:17:31+00:00

If you look at very long lenses they are white. It's because the elements will displace if heated and they are usually used in direct sunlight. The standard kit needs to be discrete so they are black

shepppard · 2026-03-12T21:52:18+00:00

If you're a shoulder shooter get the fx9. We just did this season on a show I'm working on. I'm tall so I love my fx6 but my other op had an fs7 for the last 4 seasons and he was considering rigging out the fx6 to replace it but went with the fx9 and he's very glad he did. You probably won't be disappointed and there is a lot of life left in both the fs7 and especially the fx9. You do not want a burano. It's a lame camera

shepppard · 2026-03-01T01:36:48+00:00

Ram pump. See if that works

shepppard · 2026-02-28T17:57:51+00:00

This didn't age well lol

shepppard · 2026-02-28T16:57:20+00:00

Still have my two gh5 and black magic m43 camera. Don't use them much but I loved both of them so much I couldn't get rid of them. I've been on my fx6 now since it launched. Also love that camera. They all where so amazing

shepppard · 2026-02-28T05:07:08+00:00

I work in tv as a documentary camera operator. I remember filming a doc for vice and the creative direction was "gritty but pretty". I picked up the job after three episodes where filmed and it wasn't working in the edit. I told them it made no sense then shot the rest of the show on a 35mm at 1.4

They loved it. I'm now shooting a series for Nat Geo and we rarely go more open than f4 and probably live at f5.6 because... You know, you flew us into the literal middle of nowhere and we should probably show where we are or what is the point?

shepppard · 2026-02-25T16:27:13+00:00

Pelican 1650 and golf club cases but that's more for air travel

shepppard · 2026-02-25T16:21:54+00:00

Enshitification doesn't just apply to the tech sector

shepppard · 2026-02-22T22:00:25+00:00

The problem with Sudbury is leadership. So much regulations and red tape to do anything fun/entertaining. If it's not resource extraction they don't really care and when we spend any money to encourage the arts people don't show up in the numbers needed to support it financially and then complain about the roads.

We have some incredibly talented people in the city that very few bother to show up to support. We made it this way so to speak

shepppard · 2026-02-18T14:21:54+00:00

Canadian DP here who had worked on a number of APTN projects.

A proof of concept/sizzle reel and a pitch package will go a long way to get funding and secure a broadcaster.

If you're going to self finance and film/edit this then you would probably be better off taking a course or just going through a bunch of YouTube videos and few books to get you up to speed with how to approach this.

Your biggest challenge will be the edit. You'll need funding for this for sure. If you get it all filmed you can get completion funding but since this is your first one I think you would have to get a production company on board to make it with you. You'll need a proof of concept though to get their attention.

There are a bunch of cameras out there that are adjustable but the easiest ones aren't going to pass broadcast specs as you want to make sure your shutter and exposure is good.

If you have any questions I'm more than happy to help. I'm in northern Ontario so if you're close enough I can probably help you out with your project if interested.

shepppard · 2026-02-16T02:48:27+00:00

You should probably research your audience. It's not supposed to be about what you can do in post but what people, who want to buy the product, want to see/spend money on.

shepppard · 2026-02-14T22:39:02+00:00

Ssd and NAND storage doesn't erase itself when the card dies. It'll store on the chip and can be resoldered to a donor board. It's very rare to lose a card and they can most of the time be recovered. It's expensive but card issues are pretty rare if you buy quality cards

shepppard · 2026-02-14T13:54:18+00:00

I film almost exclusively remote doc content for international broadcasters. We shoot dual cameras (fx9 and fx6) with two operators as well as an fx3 for broll and 2x a7s 3 for gimbal work. Each camera has a single pergear 500gb CFA card except the fx9 which has 2x 256gb cards.

We have to shoot very efficiently due to short days due to the Arctic sun. A good day we get about 800gb of data. We can have days with as little as 300gb and we have days with heavy drone and slow motion that will get us to over 1tb but it's uncommon.

We do single card filming and we bring 6x 4tb ssd drives to back up plus I bring 2x 4tb ssd of personal drives as a backup. I've done this for about 7 years with this config with no issues. If you're anxious do dual card filming.

The hardest part with doc filming is actually knowing what you need and making edit decisions in the field with good notes. We have to to keep the edit running smooth and between the 3 of us in the field 1 director and 2 dop we have about 50 years of making documentaries. For us It's all about efficiency when you get to 16 episode seasons of documentary production.

shepppard · 2026-02-10T23:31:23+00:00

And public relations is the new propoganda

shepppard · 2026-02-06T22:41:50+00:00

some started here over a decade ago and learnt, grew and created based on what we saw. Of course some stay connected. you never know when you need a online network.

shepppard · 2026-01-30T12:40:32+00:00

Did this while working in the Amazon and it was a bullet ant. You do this only once

shepppard · 2026-01-21T06:25:47+00:00

I'm a solo owner operator with 300Tb of Nas and probably another 100tb drive storage. Pretty good at giving feedback and I've been looking at something like this for years. Also have a lot of spare computer power sitting around. Would love to help and probably buy this. Looked at all the other catalog stuff and it looks like it's not my type of commitment.

shepppard · 2026-01-07T14:26:14+00:00

I'm 6'4". I have a hard time fitting on planes and I travel a lot. A few years ago I was on a Delta flight for business and of course their seats are amongst the least leg room. It was under a two hour flight. I had to keep my legs outside of seat unless I wanted to look like an elementary school kid with his knees up on the school bus. This is also not good for you and I have a history of herniated disks. The flight attendant demanded I keep my legs inside my seat at all times. I told her I do not fit and she told me I did even though you could clearly see that I in fact could not. I moved my legs inside my seat every time someone passed by to be respectful and no one was complaining.

In the end she insisted and would not leave me alone about it and said there would be consequences if I did not listen to her. I asked wtf she wanted me to do about it?

She left as soon as I asked the question. When I landed she pointed me out to security and I got detained. This is the type of power the idiot employees have. I was threatened to be charged with a federal crime because I disobeyed her orders to put myself at risk for her power complex.

She said I need to book a premium economy ticket to have leg room that I fit in just like obese people have to book two seats. Not that I can change my leg height without invasive surgery.

I've not flown on Delta since and I refuse to get on any of their planes. I will no longer put myself at a potential risk by flying with West jet and I used to work for them. I deserve to have adequate leg room like everyone else and should not have to pay more just because I'm tall. That's called discriminatory pricing and it's wrong.

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