My only wedding in February, but I have weddings four out of the five Saturday’s in March. More info at SteadfastWeddings.com.
Hi my name is Keith…I make videos.
I’ve had so much work lately with weddings that I didn’t want to take on another massive video editing project. Renato Tavares is my coach and the owner of American Top Team Vero Beach, and I told him I would shoot the tournament he was putting on. Recently I saw a video made up entirely of photos, and I figured this would be a good opportunity to experiment with photography and see what I could come up with.
For the opening photos I played around with what is called tilt-shift photography. With the right blur, and saturated colors it gives a miniature effect. I left out photo sequences of action from earlier in the tournament because when I got to editing I realized I didn’t have enough frames for the feel I wanted. As the day went on I was more liberal with rapid firing photos, and then I got the desired effect of a stop motion type video. Editing these was relatively quick compared to what I go through with video editing. I foresee making another photo video at some point in the future when the right project comes along, but for now…more weddings.
I finally got to shoot a wedding ten minutes from my home in Vero Beach! Full writeup at SteadfastWeddings.com.
My newest wedding video. It’s been almost 3 months since my last wedding! Full write up about the event at my wedding website SteadfastWeddings.com. My goal is 20 weddings in 2012!
Recently I started thinking about the videos I make and whether or not they make any difference in the world. I believe that a well done wedding video could be the future spark needed for a couple, even twenty years from now, that reminds them of their love and commitment made to each other. I enjoy music videos, but for the most part they are just entertainment and not usually a life changer. Same goes for most every other video I can make.
I did the Colombian orphanage video recently, but I decided I also needed to make a video for my church. I have all this equipment, I have free time, so why not? It’s tough for me because I would say a large percentage of my friends are either agnostic or atheist, and in modern society intelligent people are “supposed” to be too smart for religion. Christianity and religion are such loaded words, and I really don’t like associating with them. I have read the book Mere Christianity (by C.S. Lewis) several times, and it explains Christianity in its simplest form and gives the road map to forming a relationship with God and living your life. It has really clarified a lot of things for me.
Over the last few thousand years there has been no shortage of great thinkers: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Confucius, Jesus, etc. There has been no shortage of wisdom and advice to live your life, and yet anyone that is honest with his or herself realizes that no one lives their life as perfectly and fulfilling as they would like. I can’t blame the advice, nor religion, nor can I blame Christianity for some of its darker moments in history in which people did things in the name of Christianity. I can only try to make a difference in the world. I believe my church is making a positive difference in the world, and this is my effort to help them.
About six months ago I started getting in Jeremy’s ear about doing a video for his orphanage. Up until this point he hasn’t asked the MMA community for donations, but now the government is threatening to shut them down if they don’t replace the roof of the kitchen. Jeremy is trying to raise $25,000 to do the necessary repairs, so yesterday I recorded audio of him talking about the orphanage to make a short slideshow. Depending on my February wedding schedule I may go down there and shoot a mini-documentary to bring more awareness to what the drug trade is doing to the region and how necessary self-funded orphanages really are.
A friend talked me into starting a facebook page so they can know when I post videos and not have to go to my website all the time. Soooo, here it is facebook.com/steadfastvideos
Halloween weekend nearly everyone leaves Gainesville for the Florida vs Georgia college football game in Jacksonville. This is when thousands of people from around the world storm Gainesville for The Fest. This was the tenth annual Fest. My friend Alain and myself shot 3 days of music, and these are some moments from the footage that I put together into a highlight of sorts. TheFestFL.com
As promised here’s the second video I shot with the boys in Gainesville. With the sun setting we ended up with a very vibrant and warm feeling video.
Back in March of 2010 I was shooting at the Harvest of Hope Music Festival and I ran into the guys from Look Mexico and asked if they wanted to do a one-take acoustic video. We ended up shooting it inside of their RV, and to this day it is one of my favorite videos. That video can be found here. http://vimeo.com/10197948
At The Fest 10 in Gainesville we met up and shot two new acoustic videos. Mega retailer PacSun has a nice write up about them and features our new video here. http://music.pacsun.com/blog/2011/11/17/onthehorizon-lookmexico/
