Time for Some Video! Musically Speaking…..

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Nubar

This is a piece I did about the language of music for middle school students (The original Musically Speaking was translated into 30 languages. Cool, no?)  It’s shot in HD and recorded in 5.1 surround. I was the Creative Director/Director/DP and worked with an extraordinary group of talented musicians, composers, recording engineers, producer, editor and crew to produce this piece. .(Best heard with headphones.)

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Shooting Where You Live…over and over….

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Nubar

I shoot almost all the time, especially in my home town of Gloucester, MA. It’s different than being on location for an assignment, both for the obvious reasons and because I have the luxury of shooting the same thing over and over until I get it. This image taken of Ice Floes in Walker Creek in the year 2000 is a good example. It’s right down the street from where I live. I must have shot this 20 different times in a month. I used the Fuji 617 Panorama camera and Tri-X 220 film (image size on this camera is true panorama: 2 1/4 x 6 3/4).

And since the East Coast was just blasted with 1-2 feet of snow, BEFORE Halloween, I thought it appropriate to upload this image. (We were spared by only getting rain and wind.)

Walker Creek, West Gloucester, MA

This may sound extreme, but I “scouted” this location in Gloucester Harbor from my boat for a year. I was trying to find the correct angle and height of the tide that would let me stand on a rock with a tripod so I could line up the high water mark you see on the large granite bolder with the horizon, which, in this case is the city of Gloucester.

Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA

City of Gloucester from Ten Pound Island

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Moth Panorama

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Nubar


This in an extreme close-up of a moth resting on a lamp shade. Because I’m so close, 9 source files were necessary to create this panorama. Sorry to keep emphasizing this, but the closer your iPhone is to the subject, the more you need to overlap the source files from one image to the next so the stitching software can find the structure it needs to generate the panorama.The overlap here is 60-75%.

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