Video Slider

This post really has nothing to do with Abby or Reid. Just me nerding out on a new piece of hardware. In my video production class we bought a new stabilizer called a slider. We have a really big version of one of these called a track dolly but we needed something shorter and more portable. So we purchased a Glide Gear track slider. The slider can be mounted on a tripod or set on any surface whether its level or not. You attach a ball head mount and your good to go. We just got it at the end of last week and I wanted to test it out a bit so I took some footage in the backyard. Really short video if your interested. Odds are I'll be using it in some of the video we do of Reid so if your wondering how we get a certain shot this is it. We have a busy week, I have 4 broadcasts at school that my video class is doing, we have our sonogram on tuesday to find out the gender, and Abby and I are videoing another wedding this Saturday in KC. Going to be a long week.

Here is a picture of the slider. Link to the site is HERE.

Short video of the slider test.

Wedding and busy weekends!

It has been a while since I have posted and since we last spoke Nathan and I have been busy bees. This summer as we posted we went on several mini vacations that took us to Missouri a few times and also to western Kansas.

Since the last posting we have also been to several weddings. Starting with my brother Jared's wedding in July. Nathan was the guy who actually married Jared and Mandie! Who would have thought that. It was a lot of fun and all three of us got to be in the wedding. Nathan has also been increasing his 'portfolio' if you will in wedding videos. The picture below is from the video he did for Jared.

Randine and Tray also got married this summer in August at a really cool place in Lenexa. Nathan was in the wedding and got this shot. If you follow him or I on Instagram there are some really cool pictures from their pretty wedding. Nathan didn't make a video for this one but we had a really good time and Grandma Boone was taking care of Reid so we got to have some fun together without the kid. 

At the midpoint of August Nathan was in another wedding back in Ellinwood for his friend Dave Waite as an usher and he also made a video for their wedding. So we were off to Great Bend for that weekend and Grandma and Grandpa Boone watched Reid all day while Nathan and I shot video. Nathan does the editing and main shots for each video but I help him out with some creative artistic shots and I always get the footage of the bride getting ready. It's a lot of fun to experience other people's wedding's and capture a moment for them on video that they can keep for the rest of their lives. He made a trailer for Dave's wedding in conjunction with a whole video. 

Oddly enough Nathan just got back from shooting another wedding this weekend with one of his video students from school. It looked like it was a pretty fancy wedding from the pictures he was sending me. Who knows where the whole wedding thing will go but it's fun to make 'em.