Fresnel Phan
July 21st, 2005, 11:07 AM
Hi everybody.
I've been a lurker for a while now. I was a click through from the XL1 watchdog. I don't know what prompted me to finally register, but here I am. :)
I started out as a photographer in high school. Then I studied RTF at the University of Houston. After graduating, I went into a ramp traffic controller career at Bush Intercontinental Airport. My health began to go South from all of the stress and strange working hours so I quit. I used the money I had made to purchase my start up equipment.
My setup these days is as follows:
1 Panasonic DVX100 for shooting dramatic works
1 Sony PD150 - I had actually bought this while in college. It's my old faithful
1 Sony PD100A - My "stunt" cam because it's small and relatively cheap compared to the others. It took a fall a while back and now the audio skips horribly. I'm looking for a place in Houston to fix it.
2 Canon XL1 - For having matching cameras at live events
Then I have all of the usual shotguns/lavs, tripods, etc.
I edit on a dual Xeon Adobe Premiere based comp. I grew up on Photoshop and Illustrator so the transition to Premiere was natural. However, I'm very interested in trying out Vegas which lots of people on here speak so highly about. I also threw in an RTX.10. That was a mistake. I'm going to pull it and go with an RTX.100 eventually.
I mostly do corporate work, although I've only have had two gigs so far. I used to shoot weddings and quincenearas in college. I'll do those again. But since officially starting up (in May of 05), I haven't had any takers (lack of demo reel and stuff).
I've also been competing in a few of those guerrilla film competitions. I came back from an Austin one last month and this weekend will be a Houston one.
I'm going to continue to troll the board, except now I'm a registered member. :) I'm relatively new to the field so there is just way too much I still need to learn.
Thanks for reading!
I forgot. I'm still a photographer. I use a Canon EOS-10D for that.
I've been a lurker for a while now. I was a click through from the XL1 watchdog. I don't know what prompted me to finally register, but here I am. :)
I started out as a photographer in high school. Then I studied RTF at the University of Houston. After graduating, I went into a ramp traffic controller career at Bush Intercontinental Airport. My health began to go South from all of the stress and strange working hours so I quit. I used the money I had made to purchase my start up equipment.
My setup these days is as follows:
1 Panasonic DVX100 for shooting dramatic works
1 Sony PD150 - I had actually bought this while in college. It's my old faithful
1 Sony PD100A - My "stunt" cam because it's small and relatively cheap compared to the others. It took a fall a while back and now the audio skips horribly. I'm looking for a place in Houston to fix it.
2 Canon XL1 - For having matching cameras at live events
Then I have all of the usual shotguns/lavs, tripods, etc.
I edit on a dual Xeon Adobe Premiere based comp. I grew up on Photoshop and Illustrator so the transition to Premiere was natural. However, I'm very interested in trying out Vegas which lots of people on here speak so highly about. I also threw in an RTX.10. That was a mistake. I'm going to pull it and go with an RTX.100 eventually.
I mostly do corporate work, although I've only have had two gigs so far. I used to shoot weddings and quincenearas in college. I'll do those again. But since officially starting up (in May of 05), I haven't had any takers (lack of demo reel and stuff).
I've also been competing in a few of those guerrilla film competitions. I came back from an Austin one last month and this weekend will be a Houston one.
I'm going to continue to troll the board, except now I'm a registered member. :) I'm relatively new to the field so there is just way too much I still need to learn.
Thanks for reading!
I forgot. I'm still a photographer. I use a Canon EOS-10D for that.