Andersson B. - The DSLR Filmmakers Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques

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Acknowledgments

We could not have written this book without the help and support of many people. First we need to thank our kids, Trinity and Stonewall, for being so patient with us during the whole writing experience as well as being good subjects in so many of our examples and testing over the past couple of years.

We must also thank our contributors, Michael Heagle and Daniel Brown. Michael wrote the chapter on fixing it in post and did a superb job of making the subject matter of post-production seem to be no problem at all. Daniel wrote the entire section about shooting underwater photos and video. His many years of experience were invaluable and distilled to a point where we believe anyone reading his tips will be well on their way to top-quality underwater images.

We also want to thank some of our close friends who allowed us to share some of their invaluable knowledge with their permission. Shane and Lydia Hurlbut and their top-of-the-line Hurlbut Visuals Elite team were awesome. They are leaders in the field and helped us tremendously in better learning the DSLR video cameras and workflows; we also gleaned some information from their blog at www.hurlbutvisuals.com . Additionally, Chris Fenwick, editor extraordinaire, was invaluable in helping with a simplified workflow for compressing final images getting them ready for multiple devices. Thanks to Scott Sheppard for the many hours of assistance in helping set up test after test and being a sounding board for everything from lenses to editing to compression to color, and more; Milo Durben for his invaluable knowledge of gripping and rigging and the patience for all the images we had to take during the course of writing the book; and Jack Boniface for being a great sounding board and a great help with consulting on the audio portions of the book.

We also cannot thank enough our cast and crew of The Shamus for their outstanding performances and their patience in working with a young technology so early in the DSLR game: to our actors, Charles Hubble, Greg Hain, Emily Tyra, Sarah Richardson, Sam Landman, Sasha Andreev, and the many other outstanding actors; and to our crew, Michael Dvork, Ryan Dodge, Tammy Hollingsworth, Deena Graf, Thomas Popp, and the rest of the gang who helped make the film such a joy to work on.