Shooting Stills vs Shooting Video

by Eric on November 30, 2008

Why do so many exceptional photographers struggle to shoot just halfway-decent video? It’s certainly not for lack of vision. The answer, I think, is more fundamental. It’s a misunderstanding of how the two formats work. So basic is this difference (…)

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Condition: Critical, Voices from the War in Eastern Congo for Médecins Sans Frontières

by Eric on November 23, 2008

At the end of October I finished production on my second Congo piece, this time for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). ‘Condition: Critical, Voices from the War in Eastern Congo’ features numerous firsthand testimonials as well as the stunning (…)

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Office Circus

by Eric on November 17, 2008

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById(“player1″).style.display = “”; var s1 = new SWFObject(“http://www.ericmaierson.com/blog2/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf”,”player1″,”512″,”308″,”7″); s1.addParam(“wmode”,”transparent”); s1.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”); s1.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”); s1.addVariable(“height”,”308″); s1.addVariable(“width”,”512″); s1.addVariable(“file”,”http://www.ericmaierson.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/flvs/circus.flv”); s1.addVariable(“image”,”http://www.ericmaierson.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/flvs/circus.jpg”); s1.addVariable(“link”,”http://www.ericmaierson.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/flvs/circus.flv”); s1.write(“player1″); (…)

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Using Terminal to Quit Invisible Processess

by Eric on November 9, 2008

No matter how much RAM your mac is pushing, it’s inevitable that your computer will eventually hang; those times when no matter how many applications you quit, your computer still seems to working in slow motion. By way of review, (…)

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