video from youth-league players’ ceremony, HS game

 Posted by on April 21, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Apr 212010
 

here’s a recent video from Farmington last Friday. i’m uploading right now from my mom’s rancho in the South Valley of ABQ (beautiful!). the video’s a bit long, but it’s actually two events in one.

i shot stills from the game for our sports section (i’ll post a few here later), and this video of the whole afternoon of the young’ns followed by the game (in Canon 5d Mark II, 640×480 compressed-video format). it was my first time shooting action (or anything major, really) with the 5D’s video mode, which is manual focus so a bit tricky…but it turned out fun. it’s awesome to have an SLR that can do that! i’m looking forward to shooting more video with the 5D in the future, and since most other events will be shorter, i can use the full 1920x1080p and have enough memory to handle it.

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a video from Farmington — from my last day

 Posted by on October 28, 2008 at 11:56 am
Oct 282008
 
my internship at The Daily Times in Farmington flew by. after all, it was a brief, six-week stint.

the Farmington Renaissance Faire was a fun assignment to get for my last day. i got to do video while Daily Times chief photog. Lindsay Pierce covered stills — a luxury allowed by our normally slow Sundays at the paper.
the juggler in the video is definitely a character. let me know what you think.

Farmington Renaissance from Xavier Mascareñas on Vimeo.

UPDATE: video embedded for ‘Geraldine’s Pies’ video, back from Nashville, dig in

 Posted by on September 4, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Sep 042008
 

i was going to embed the video player here, but it was bogging down the page a bit too much. soooo, Please check it out here (found a site called Vimeo.com that lets you do much better quality than YouTube !)

Geraldine’s Pies from Xavier Mascareñas on Vimeo.

never had a chess pie before, but damn they’re good. 

the multimedia training with Val Hoeppner through the Chips Quinn Scholar’s program was intense — one week of working and learning 8 a.m. to 10 to 11 p.m., but it was well worth it.  
thanks to Meredith Rodriguez, my teammate and co-videoer, who kept her cool while we had to ingest video twice while on deadline due to a timecode flub.
also to Rachelle Gines and Charles Pulliam, my teammates from the day before who worked on this video: CLICK HERE, and go to the sixth video in player , which was about photos from Hurricane Katrina at the Parthenon in Nashville. a challenging place to film, and a little rough ending, but a great effort from everybody.
if there’s time to check out all the videos, do it. the first video in the first link’s player, ‘The River,’ is especially touching. it’s all really impressive, especially considering most everyone came in with no video experience. Val does an amazing job in the classroom.
much thanks to everyone else involved with the instruction too, Quincy and Ann, and the Freedom Forum staff coordinating everything with the Diversity Institute. enjoy

Video post, and updates of photo work

 Posted by on June 29, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Jun 292008
 


Alright, time to update the blog. Here’s some recent stuff, along with a video piece I did earlier this week. Hopefully the link works fine, until I can get my own Flash compressed copy (does Blogger support posting of SWF’s or FLV’s, without a player?).

If anybody has experience with that, do share.
Directly above the video is the photo that ran on B1 (thankfully, because it promoted the video) as a standalone.
Thanks.

6/25/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Tafari Roberston, 12, watches Kenneth Avery, 12, play the tenor steel drum during an impromptu quiz Wednesday given by teacher Cecil Francis during a class at  Austin Community Steelband on Tenth Street.

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