Photographer portfolio sites launched

December 5th, 2009

I recently had the pleasure of launching a couple photographer sites using the “Profolio” system.  This was a great solution for me becauase it only involves some slight customizations on my end.  Also it’s nice that the sites will show up and work on an iPhone.  Typically these types of portfolio sites are flash based.

The photographer can update and upload everything themselves.  So if things like the “about” page are not populated or need to be updated… this is just a couple clicks away for these guys, and does not fall into my lap…

A.B. Johnstone – http://www.indivisualist.com

AB Johnstone - Street Photography

AB Johnstone Street Photography

Ryan Fujiki – http://www.ryanfujiki.com

Ryan Fujiki - Toronto Music and Advertising Photographer

Expanded Portfolio Image from Ryan Fujiki

Contact me if your interested in getting one of these launched for yourself.

Studio304 Still Motion Project

October 18th, 2009

Well the time is finally here!  I have been able to pop another chapter in moving pictures.  Ill post the link to the super quality 720p file soon enough but for now just enjoy the vimeo!

Studio304 Still Motion – 5D mark 2 from Dj Frost on Vimeo.

Studio304 and it’s crew are featured in this short picture.  If your in the Vancouver area contact us at http://www.studio304.ca for more information on rates and availability.

Big thanks to Adam and Kev Photography for the raw conversions.

THE IDEA:

We had a regular shmegular studio meeting and decided to take a portrait of all the studio members.  Well, this turned into more than a portrait as you can see.

The camera was actually triggered by an iPhone passed around the group.  By tapping the shutter over wi-fi.

In the first scenes we are all standing around with the light setup from that days portrait shoot, then in the second scene, we each setup our own light.  Adam Schelle [softbox camera left], Kevin Holloway [umbrella] Adam Blasberg [beauty dish center pillar] Justin Frost [camera right].

A true colab, everyone here has a photographic background and what a great time we had at this meeting!

PRODUCTION NOTES:

Studio Courtesy:
Studio304 Vancouver

Director:
Justin Frost

Still Photography:
Adam and Kev Photography

Motion Graphics / VFX / Editing:
REALSTOCK Productions

Sound Design:
Dj Frost

SOFTWARE:
Lightroom
Bridge
Automator
Logic Pro
After Effects
Adobe Media Encoder
Illustrator
iPhone app to control mouse on mac
Canon EOS Utility [for the mouse to trigger the 5d]

I have to shout out Robert Rodriguez as he has been a huge inspiration in my recent filmmaking journey.
If you like this version PLEASE visit one of the following sites to download the proper 720p HD file.  The quality is amazing on this PHOTO-JPEG encoded version and will be available here for download in the next post..

Also, please play this on decent speakers[:

Cheers!

Time To Toot My Magento Horn.

October 5th, 2009

Well I finally decided to post some work that I have been doing for a Vancouver based company STORMTECH.  A full scale customized muti-national deployment of Magento.

I learned Magento in and out for about 6 months straight, and well… Now our company is running smoother than ever on it.  It was a large project with close to 10 000 SKU’s.

Vancouver Magento Developer - Justin Frost

Above is the video intro page, I shot the segments on the 5d and cut them in Premiere Pro .

Vancouver Magento Developer - Justin Frost

Above is the Canadian Landng Page.

Vancouver Flash Catalogue Developer - Justin Frost

This is the flash catalogue conversion.

Now I can build E-commerce sites to showcase the cool stuff like video, photo, awesome graphic design..  A perfect environment to be familiar with for content publishing, it generates income!

At first I found magento very difficult to get used to, but with enough time it’s possible to pull massive projects off single handedly,  that would have taken a large team not too long ago..

Speaking of Machines.

October 5th, 2009

Along the same theme as my last post tonight, check out this illustration.

machines

There is an impossibility that comes with our human relationship with machines…