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How to Shoot a (Location) Photo File

Sooke Film Society / Film in BC, Canada

British Columbia is the third largest film production region in North America. This growth in the film industry has lead the Canadian Government to introduce tax incentives for productions outside of the lower mainland and the Vancouver area. The southwest tip of Vancouver Island and other areas of BC are prime film production locations, taking full advantage of this Government tax break.”

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How to Shoot a Photo File: (to International Film Commission Standards)

“The Film Industry expects location information in the standard location file format shown in the file assembly guide.

*Film: ASA 400

Location photofiles must show all aspects of the recommended location. They are not “postcards” showing only pretty views or distinctive features. They are an organized photographic documenting of the entire location including background views and reverses. (Reverses are the location as seen from two opposite viewpoints.) This allows the production company to see all the potential of the location.

Before you start to photograph the property consider what unique qualities the property possesses. Try to record the uniqueness of the location.

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*nyc.locationscout.us only accepts digital photos in full color, .jpg format.

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    News :: Q-spheres

    Q-spheres HDRi


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    (above) Quicktime output of Q-sphere of Team Q-spheres at Lake Mead, NV, December 2007 (c) 2007-2009 Q-spheres.com


    Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo


    R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us is now a qualified provider of Q-spheres HDRi 3d digital imaging services.

    In association with LocationExchange, Locamundo, and Team Q-spheres qualified associates worldwide, we aim to build on our collective traditional location scouting and location management services skills and location archive assets and resources, going forward to provide an even greater range of services to not only keep pace with, but rather lead the way in rapidly changing digital imaging technologies for the still photography, motion pictures and 3-d gaming and animation industries.

    Our current digital imaging system, developed by Locamundo founder Jo VanHove (Brussels, BE), provides the fastest currently-available methods for generating the highest-quality, full-dynamic-range, 3d, image-based lighting models (lightfields) and HDRi backgrounds. Our worldwide team of expert imaging and production professionals strives to keep abreast of and implement as we might find productive, new developments and available methods - adapting our imaging technologies to provide the highest-standard services and products with regard to not only imaging quality, but with considerations toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well.

    Q-spheres can be hired to provide assignment-specific imaging and also maintains an archive of rights-managed post-ready high quality backgrounds and lightfields.

    Please contact us for your next imaging project and let us show you how Q-spheres can work for you!

    Q-spheres Official Press Release, July 2007 (pdf)

    Q-spheres Associates Worldwide (Alphabetically, by company or last name):

    1. Meuleman Manu (brauhaus.be / Antwerp, BE)
    2. Thomas Duchnicki (creativelocation.de / Berlin, DE)
    3. Rickard Molin (fixmolin.se / Stockholm, SE)
    4. John Cody, Dan Uneken (fotofilmvideo.com / Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
    5. Francoise Huvelle (Q-spheres.com / Buenos Aires, AR)
    6. Scott Clark (iwerken.com / Albuquerque, NM, USA)
    7. Jo VanHove (loc8, locamundo.com, locationexchange.com / Brussels, BE)
    8. Locations Portugal (locationsportugal.com / Lisbon, PT)
    9. Peter Orth (planetorth.com / Los Angeles, CA, USA)
    10. R. Richard Hobbs (rrhobbs.us / New York, NY, USA)
    11. Francesca Carapelli, Leonardo Semplici, Stefano Tinti (scout.it / Siena, Italy)
    12. Mark McMcKennon (scoutman.com / New York, NY, USA)
    13. Frans VanDenBemd (vandenbemd.com / Prinsenbeek (Breda), NL)
    14. Clare Beresford (worldlocations.com / Paris, FR)

    In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.

    Team Q-spheres USA
    (above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA

    Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

    Team Q-spheres Training Session - Lake Mead NV

    Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members

    View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr

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    Creative Planet Websites

    The Creative Planet websites are the online version of all those niche trade magazines you always can never resist subscribing to (free for qualified subscribers!) and often wonder what you were thinking as six months of “Widgets Monthly” piles up unread; the upside of the online versions (if you can stay your trembling hand from subscribing by email) is you can stay up to speed on your own time on the latest technologies (yup, lot-o industrial/gear/tech press releases) online -and no trees died for your sins:

  • MAGAZINES
    carsound.com
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  • NEWSWIRES
    AVWorshipSystems.com
    LivefromNAB.com
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  • CREATIVE PLANET COMMUNITIES
    2-pop.com
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  • EVENTS
    GVExpo
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    DVD Entertainment Conference
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  • SUBSCRIPTIONS
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  • Feeds are available, but as far as I can tell only on the The Creative Planet websites, I wasnt able to find any links to subscribe to the feeds. It would be really nice if these feeds were rss-enabled on the public side; If they were, if you had the tech where-with-all to have (and have figured out how to use) a newsreader, subscribing to feeds to my mind is inherently a lot less painful than an email subscription when you just feel information-overloaded or grow loathe of whatever content you may have happenned to have subscribed to. A lot less potential privacy issues as well, altho admittedly a company such as CMP Media (parent of The Creative Planet websites) is by nature in the business of selling advertising based on aggregation of market research and demographics data, which is probably their reason for not offering up anonymous feed subscriptions. Just seems oh-so-old-school…oh well.

    On the proverbial flip side of the burger, if you are a business in a related field, companies like CMP can provide an important outlet for announcements of newsworthy events or innovations that involve your business. As depressing as all those back issues of WidgetWorld can look piling up on your commode tank, the fact is that journalists rely on these types of periodicals and the data contained therein for background and research. You want to be sure there is plenty of positive hype about your ground-breaking widget in FindArticles as well as (obviously) on Google and Yahoo.

    I personally also like PRWeb, and also NewsisFree for driving people crazy with announcements of my latest bits of news of widget of the month ;-)

    About Creative Planet Communities

    “Founded in 1997, the Creative Planet Communities, a division of NewBay Media LLC, offers online resources for the film and television production professional. Updated daily, the CPC sites offer news, articles and discussions forums for the creative community. The company’s network of sites includes 2-pop.com, VFXPro.com, Cinematographer.com, Videography.com, DCinematography.com and DesigninMotion.com.”

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    Production Services in Moab

    Production Services in Moab - film and photo shoots, rigging, location scouts, adventure races, models and talent:

    Film Shoots, Photo Shoots, Rigging, Location Scouts, Adventure Races, and Talent.

    “Moab Desert Adventures provides specialized rigging, production services, talent and location scouting for film and photo shoots, television, and other productions such as adventure races. Our background is rock climbing, and we have the skills and equipment to get your production to some very unique places. We also have a in-depth knowledge of the area, and alot of experience working with various productions, so we know where to go and how to get those spectacular and ‘unachievable’ shots.”

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