Shooting a commercial

Life is tough sometimes, the sun beating down, a heavy load on your back, a certain shot needing a combination of different elements each vital to success, communications from divers to boat and vice-versa, CGI elements to be added later, a team of back up divers catering to props, cables, lights etc. So not much then for a shot which in all likeliness will last 5 seconds.
Gotta love it and would do it again in a flash!

Richard



photoshop@fishnfins.comwww.lightningstrikeproductions.co.uk

A project is in the pipeline that may well be about a pipeline and the natural resources it could destroy. Watch this space for more news on what could be an exclusive into Environmental Philosophy and the people who advocate the risk of oil exploration.

richardwbrooks@hotmail.com

Hi all, so after practically a year and going from a simple Fish ID DVD to a fully interactive educational Fish ID DVD with enough re-edits and menu screens, transitions and links to send me almost completely round the bend it's finally ready!
Over 140 species covering Reef Fish, Nudibranchs, Silver fish, Reptiles, Cephalopods, The Colour Red and Elasmobranchs this is one heck of an educational reference tool.
Each species has it's own information page with ID photo, behaviour and biological notes that you can navigate to from the footage of the critter you are watching.
From Anemone fish to Zebra shark with everything in between including hunting squid, mating octopus, shark mating scars and a whole host of other rarely seen behaviour this is a great visual guide for divers and snorkelers alike.
Available at these retail outlets:
Fish 'n Fins
Belau National Museum
Neco Marine
Etpison Museum

Cheers
Richard



photoshop@fishnfins.com
www.lightningstrikeproductions.co.uk

The Night Sky

January and March this year will be two of the few months when there will be a "Blue Moon".
A Blue Moon isn't actually blue of course it's just when you have two Full Moons in the same calendar month.
This is a timelapse video of it.


A few nights earlier was also exceptionally clear and I took this long exposure of Orion

The Red Giant Betelgeuse is the visibly red star on the left side half way up the picture and is so massive it would not fit inside Jupiter's orbit. It's light takes 640 years to get to us....

Cheers

Richard


photoshop@fishnfins.com
www.lightningstrikeproductions.co.uk