http://littlelostrobot.com/blog The life and links of JL Watkins, videographer and blogger Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:28:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's an odd coincidence that on the same day my favorite roadside billboard vanishes, another interesting one appears along my commute in a completely different spot. I guess it's true that advertising abhores a vacuum. I snapped this shot of my friend and colleague, Mia Gradney's new billboard - even ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/07/03/got-any-billboards/ I just can't believe how quickly these past few months have flown by! We went to Atlanta this past weekend for the NATAS Southeast Emmy Awards thing, which still proved to be fun even if neither Ky nor I were sent home with Emmy gold this year. It's just an ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/07/02/is-it-july-already/ I've been doing a lot of promos at KPRC recently, but haven't had any new video to post. Most of my stuff lately has had a lot of NBC footage, and is more 'day turn' sort of stuff anyway. Well, I finally have something blogworthy. Here's one promo from a ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/25/local-2-investigates-is-there/ I've been snapping a ton of RAW photos, and I finally got the chance to shoot a project that can use some 'high pass' and bleach filtering that I've been dying to process some photos with. The investigative photos work better with this look than shots of my daughter playing ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/25/stephen-dean-is-there/ Here's some semi-raw video shot with my Canon 5D Mark2 still camera that'll be used for a promotional campaign. I have much more video - all these shots are done with my Lensbaby Composer lens attachment. semi-raw video; my Lensbaby shots from JL Watkins on Vimeo. Shooting with the 5D2 has its ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/25/shooting-with-the-canon-5d2/ We went to the zoo on Saturday (where this photo below was taken) and then to play in the water fountains in the park on Sunday. Our goal was to get a bunch of stuff done each morning when the temperature was still at a cool 96 degrees, and chill ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/22/had-a-pretty-sweet-fathers-day/ Okay, so I'm back. I've been on a blogging vacation - mainly to figure out what to do with my site in the wake of my two database crashes in the past year. I've been fearful of posting too much stuff, or working too hard on my template, only to ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/17/back-on-the-blogrophone/ Here's a little HD video I shot with my Canon 5DII of one of my robots being battered by sea water. Trust me, it looks pretty sweet in full HD. I'm probably going to have to upgrage my Vimeo account (and upload it there) to prove ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/01/salt-water-is-not-kind-to-the-robot-mind/ Accidentally ending up in Montego Bay, Jamaica is the least of the problems for the Channel 6 news team. The sea water has already began rusting away the live van, and all their debit cards have been declined because they neglected to call their banks ahead of time to notify ... http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/01/no-time-for-duty-free-shopping/ I snapped this shot as the sun was setting on both the Gulf...and our cruise vacation. http://littlelostrobot.com/blog/2009/06/01/heading-back-into-the-gulf/