Aud focus

folio december 2008

Them Kids!

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Mary Grinter

Hooked on High Dynamic Range processing!

An alley in old Canton, China.

MARTIN DIGGS
Filmmaker | Photographer
626 818 2058 LA
KC 816 256 8956

MY FIRST HDR PROCESS

The original is above... Below you find the processed HDR using three
photographs with varying exposures exported from Aperture, processed
using Qtpfsgui and re-tweaked in Aperture to provide a touch more style.

Guangzhou, China

Isaac is 9!

Isaac and his peeps from l to r Ethan, Marty and Alex! The ate pizza,
bowled and instilled fear in all they in countered with lollipops and
the mysterious hand gestures.

Aud Dancing!

Shooting Baby!

WARLORD... an amazing short film

alison dark

Trash and Class

Isaac's first Jayhawk football game

Audrey hosted a sleep over. Emily went to one.
Nothing left to do, but for the boys to have fun!

Kansas 40 - Florida International 10

Eszter and Allison 2

LIGHT AND DARK

Because finishing the film in LA wasn't enough work, I found away to sneak in a photo shoot. Meet Eszter and Allison left to right. I shot them separately, but with the contrast between the two I had to get them together.

ohm, I need a smoke

Cathay Robinson

Peanut butter

Who else do you know that would offer chinese women peanut butter? Of
course they loved it.

Jason and George

Jason, Assistant Camera and George, Dolly Grip

the blue umbrella

the bikes of china

prop cuffs

Having fun with Rayni, camera exposure and prop handcuffs!

The Gaffer

Over thinking?

Lena

Fishermen

Hong Kong

incense wheel

This is an incense wheel (attached). Specifically the wheel me and
another western crew member burned on behave of the production. You
write what ever you like on a piece of paper that is attached to the
top of the wheel. It is then presented to Kwan Yin (Iron goddess of
mercy/compassion) see also, my tatoo) and then it is hung on the
outside of the shrine/temple.

Kirk, the DP on the shoot had been talking about this buddhist temple
he had seen while driving to and from work. So on, Sunday last he and
I went to the temple. We didnt even know what it was called, just knew
that it was some sort of temple. Once we got there 6 busses dropped of
a large crowd of people and the entrance was packed. Instead of
following a crowd around we decided to follow the path less traveled.
So we went around to a water fall that led to a path straight up the
mountain. We sat at the top shooting pictures of the landscape and it
begin to rain. Tropical weather dictates a short rain, so we waited
under a shelter with a chinese army guy... dressed in fatigues. Not
sure why he was up there, but with the olympics going on in the same
country, things I have been told are about strange right now. So we
gave the man a smoke and waited out the rain.

We found the temple when we walked down the mountain. Saw the locals
performing the ceremony and decided to join in the experience. It was
nice.

I made a joke to Jennifer, regarding my tattoo. "You have to wonder if
I got something in Portugese on my arm, if I would be in Brazil right
now." If you knew where I was right now you would really wonder. When
we are out and about and someone reads my tattoo, and catches my eye,
they tend to point in the direction of the temple. Not knowing where
we were or what the temple was called. I looked to google... Hello?
Surprise... the Kwan Yin Temple. Oh well, it was nice to discover that
fact in a truly organic fashion.

I was told I would be in Guangzhou, but I am in fact in Nan Hai in the
Guangdong provence, which is about 40 minutes from Guangzhou. An area
that is famous for to particular shrines/temples of Kwan Yin. My
apartment is on the actual lot. Something I don't care for. The rest
of the crew is split between Guangzhou and apartments about two miles
away Nan hai. My roommate is the director and we just dont get to go
shopping or anything where we are. The producer just wants us to order
everything we need and stay put, but I just don't work that way. I
would rather be lost trying to make my way through a conversation
about beer or beef than have someone drive and pick up a carry out
meal from me. I never know what I want anyway so.

In other news, we are on day four of the shoot. Things are going about
the way you would hope they would. The crew was tight in the
beginning, but once they caught wind of how things worked, they
loosened up. You can really see the love in their eyes. They are
hooked, I remember that feeling, for the first time and it is
something else. It is fun to work. We are also teaching them not to
take everything so seriously. Everyone makes mistakes, something the
industry knows happens and is always very forgiven. They are also
starting to get that we spend a lot of time making jokes and each
other laugh and have started chiming in, when the understand.

This weekend will be the crews first days off in about 14 days, so we
are having a nice two day weekends. We typically will shoot six day
weeks, but want to give everyone a break before we really get down to
the nitty gritty.

Kirk, Ryan (one of the actors) and the gaffer, Erik, are headed to
Hong Kong. That will be great. Henry the producer is setting it up so
that we can hit some key points, but for the most part, we will just
drift and be somewhere else. More about that later.

Double Happiness!

There are drinks, smokes et al baring this logo. It is the character
for double happiness. It also shows up on the television when there is
no signal.

Propaganda? How can you suggest that with such a kind message. It could
just say happiness, but no... it's double happiness!