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- Lake Union, Oregon, USA

Well I am back in one of my favourite places……. Oregon.  I have been here one day and am already having the time of my life….. love this place!

Ryan, Brian and I are off to the mountains for 7 days and tomorrow morning I am up in a small plane to check out the scenery.

Being here again has bought back a lot of memories from last year…… Here are a few of my favourite photos from my trip last year.

Cochin, India

Orphanage, Cochin, India

A wild mustang walks through the desert in Baja, Mexico

A woman admires the parade in Antigua, Guatemala

The amazing pyramids in Cairo, Egypt

Cochin, India.

Pelicans soak up the early morning sunlight in Oregon, USA

Workers take rest on the bio diesel drums in Oman

One of the students watches Earthrace docking in Cochin, India

- Oman

- A white tiger sleeps in the sun in Miami

- Cochin, India

- Antigua, Guatemala

Exciting news! ‘The Jaquie Brown Diaries’ has gone to air on Fridays at 9.30pm on TV3.

If you missed the show you can watch it online here

You can also check out ‘The Jaquie Brown Diaries’ website here for updates and photos of the production.

Woohoo! After pulling drama for a genre, having nothing on paper until after midnight on the Friday and frantically searching for a female lead, we pulled off a decent 48 Hour film effort which eventually won us the Auckland Finals! Next step, the GRAND FINAL at 8.30pm on C4 on July 3rd. Peter Jackson has chosen 1 more film to compete against all the finalists and he chose a good one. It was by the same team that won the entire competition last year, team Lens Flare.

We shot our 48 hour film ‘The End’ on the RED 1 camera at 2k resolution. Naturally I was extremely excited getting my hands on one of these cameras and making our 48 hour film look stunning. But then, my world came crashing down when I read the final script early on Saturday morning and realised that there was only 1 location and it happened to be indoors and a square white box 5m by 5m!! So I literally had the ferrari of all cameras but that didn’t mean jack when you are shooting against white walls….. gutting. My dream of having massive depth, great composition, beautiful colors, smooth moves and cinematic lighting gone in a second.

The RED 1 weighs a ton and for most of the film I shot hand held because the script called for 2 different styles in the one film. One of the styles was his fantasy, a fairytale. I decided to shoot the ‘fantasy’ section on sticks to make it have a kind of formulaic feel as this was his dream or what he had planned to go down perfectly without a hitch. I lit the fantasy scene with tungsten lighting to make the dream feel happier. The other style needed to feel a little chaotic and claustrophobic. I decided to shoot this style hand held to give the scene a kind of ‘the world is crumbling’ feel. I lit the ‘chaotic’ scene using daylight bulbs to give it a cold, harsh feeling.

This camera is extremely heavy but I found the RED camera to be the easiest of any other camera to hand hold. The weight was perfectly balanced on my shoulder and my shoulder is the perfect shape for the base of the RED. I did have some foam stuffed inside my shirt but it wasn’t until later on in the night that I realized that I could operate it without the use of the foam. In the photo you can see that I am struggling but that is because I am weak haha.

My laptop died on me 3 weeks ago and I just got it back today. Thanks to Apple for coming to my rescue and saving me at least $2,600 on repairs.

Bobby introduced me to HDR photos the other day. I had never heard of them but decided to check them out. High Dynamic Range imaging gives you a greater range of exposures within the photo and makes the scene look surreal. Here is an attempt I did today. The photo was taken in a small town called Bend, in Oregon last year.

I will finish this post off with one of my personal favourites.

It was taken in Hyderabad, India. This beggar came to me and asked for money through the window of the car I was traveling in. You are not meant to encourage begging so I asked her if I could take a photo of her and then in return, give her a little money. She was the most amazing looking woman I had ever seen. So much pain and suffering in her eyes, yet, through these deep emotions I could also see true happiness. Her face will haunt me for the remainder of my life and always remind myself how lucky I am when I look into her eyes. We all go through hard times, I am going through one right now, but our hard times are nothing compared to what most people on this earth have to endure. I look at this photo and feel hope.

My attempt to play my part in the world has somewhat disappeared over the last few months with me settling back into a working lifestyle in New Zealand…. But now is my time to rectify that and it can be yours too.

Take a look at my slideshow below or on my photography page and if there are any photo’s that you would like a print of….. be it on Canvas, paper, board etc etc contact me by email on lancecameraman@gmail.com for information. All profits go to Charity and helping out people in need.

Yesturday I took a tutorial on how to ‘fake tilt shift’ your photos. I love tilt shift photography as it makes the scene you are photographing look like a model and you see scenes you know very well in a completely different eye.

Here are my first few attempts at ‘Fake Tilt Shifting’:

Taken in Malaga, Spain

Taken at a bull fight in Malaga, Spain

Earthrace in Helsingor

It has been really fun playing around with these photos and hopefully soon I will get them all looking pretty good. I am going to go up one of the volcano’s in Auckland and take some photos so will post them once they have been tilted.

bye for now

Lance

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I kick started 2008 in style filming and photographing a group riding motorbikes across Baja, Mexico. It was an amazing trip and the scenery and people were beautiful. Will be loading up some photos soon. To get an idea of what it is going to be like check out the trailer for the first documentary filmed in Oregon, USA late last year at www.motoventurefilms.com.

I am slowly going through my photos from the last couple of years so in my spare time over the next couple of weeks I will be loading them onto my site.

In other news…. I am now the happy owner of the new Sony EX1 HD camera. This camera is amazing and the picture quality is second to none! I will put up some samples of what this camera can do in the near future.

Pete Bethune, the captain of Earthrace is releasing his book tonight. This book is about the experiences we had whilst circumnavigating the globe on a power boat. It will be an extremely interesting read as everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. So if you see it in bookstores pick up a copy.

- A wild horse freezes in its steps as our paths cross in the middle of the Baja desert, Mexico

Hi and welcome to my personal website.

I am a freelance lighting cameraman / photographer from Auckland, New Zealand. In 2008 I move into my 5th year as a lighting cameraman and I am extremely excited about it. The last 4 years has been amazing and I am happy to say I am living my dream. I have filmed in 32 countries in 4 years and my passion for travelling, photography and film making is stronger than ever.

I will be putting up my photo portfolio in early 2008 and also adding my showreel and a few samples of my work so check back in the new year.

If you would like to contact me my email is lancecameraman@gmail.com

Happy holidays and New Year

Lance Andrew Wordsworth