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Latest Grind house style film Chris and I put together.
It takes a lot of hard work to make a video this bad ;)

Chris and I are always trying to make films that people just aren't making. Typically on youtube people are obsessed with guns and video game parodies. There is nothing wrong with that, but we like to take it a step further and put that unique Dday Hollywood stamp on everything we do.

I hope you enjoy it. This short was shot and editing in a fun and unique style that really kind of just comes naturally to the both of us.  

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Thanks for watching,

Now for the technical stuff.
This was shot all with the 5Dmkii and the 24-70f2.8L lens. All the bad film stock look was done in After Effects. 
I used a basical CFL light kit I bought for like 200 bucks on amazon to light it. 

-Alik Griffin

Northern White Rhino - 1 of the 7 that exist in the world

This a HDR photo of one of the two White Rhino's at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. This guy is 30 years old. All of the northern white rhinos are over 30. Too old to breed, and too few of a genetic diversity for the species to repopulate.

They will be extinct in our life time. All thanks to poaching.

He looks sad doesn't he?

I shot this Northern White Rhino on the Canon 5Dmkii 70-200f2.8L IS II. Three shot bracket HDR at 2 stop intervals.

-Alik Griffin

Latest short I shot and co directed for Dday Hollywood.

How to Cheat is about a boyfriend who is completely unaware of what his girlfriend might be doing on the other end of the line. 

This was shot on the 5Dmkii with a basic CF light kit. Audio was done in Logic and it was editing with Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere. Color corrected in After Effects. 

If you want to see more of our video's check out DdayHollywood

Thanks for watching!

-Alik

Portrait photography is probably one of my favorite forms of photography. I like images that capture unique moments of time and character and a form of expression that exists nowhere else in the world.  Landscape photography is nice, but there are so many nearly identical images of the Grand Canyon or Golden Gate Bridge, it becomes difficult to get that one image that is truly one of a kind. And yes, I am guilty of taking countless landscape photos. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of guys at there that are able to create a view of the world completely different from anything anyones has ever seen. 

Here is a portrait I took of a fellow work mate Thom Stitt who was sitting along side me in my dark and mysterious Edit Bay. Only lit by the illumination of his 13'' netbook computer screen as he had deep meditative thoughts of life and the endless space of mystery.

-Alik Griffin

Fixing or getting rid of stuck or dead pixels on your DSLR.

Something every photographer should know but might not be aware of are stuck pixels on your DSLR sensor.

It’s something that is very common with DSLRs and often goes unnoticed. The reason is, apps like Lightroom4 and Aperture automatically remove them.  I only noticed it on my camera because I shoot a lot of video. None the less, you don't want them on your raws. 
So here is what they are and here is how you get rid of or fix them.

They look like this:

Here is how you can see if your sensor has stuck pixels:
-Take your camera. Put the lens cap on and take a photo with around a 30 second shutter.  
- Now open the photo in your camera viewer window, zoom and scan around until you find some.  And you can try this at various ISO’s. 

Ugly aren’t they. Don’t freak out, they are very common.

So, how to get rid of them:
- Put your camera’s lens cap on. 
- Now do a manual sensor cleaning.

This is the 5Dmkii interface. Your camera might not look the same.

Here's our latest product from DdayHollywood.

Xunnlingus

It's the prescription male enhancement that lowers the natural masculine impulses in your DNA and chemically raises hormones responsible for supplication and submission.

I always love those pharmaceutical commercials and the random footage they use of husbands and wives doing worthless activities. And the extreme side effects that are worst than the original symptoms.

I think we got the style down pretty solid and it was super fun to make.

-Alik Griffin

It's officially spring again. Last year at this time I was in Japan. Yep, I was there during the disaster. It was a horrible and sad thing, the country was in chaos.  But at least happened at a time when the countries tree's were in full bloom.  

I'm lucky I was able to be there to witness at least this one good thing that was happening. It's plum blossom orchard's.  Japan is known for it's cherry blossoms but it also has many plum blossoms. When I was there the cherry blossoms weren't in full bloom yet so I didn't have many photos of them. 

I shot these with my 5Dmkii and my walk around lens the 24-70f2.8L. Really one of the best lens camera combo's out at the time. And I think I got a few amazing photos even though it was raining, and this is another example why I use top of the line weather sealed camera equipment.  I also had an attached polarize which I didn't really need. I just had it already on the lens and didn't bring my case for it by accident. 

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Here's another shot from my set of photography from Yosemite falls. The man was so small in comparison to the base of the water fall that I thought it would be cool to leave only him in color to exaggerate the effect.

Little tip. When doing this I brushed out all the color around him leaving only his saturation. Not the best way to do black and white I know, but using one giant brush left a few little splotches of color. Also having Moire on the brush turned all the way down made some things not fully desaturate. I had to go in with several little brushes and touch up. I guess Lightroom 4 has a few little imperfections after all. Or maybe it was my hack way of doing things.

-Alik Griffin

Cool shot of the top of the Bridal Falls at Yosemite. The light and water were doing something kind of cool in this one shot that wasn't in any of the others I took. It was very windy so the water was being blown around making for some cool photos that aren't typically seen with waterfalls. 

I was using my 5Dmkii and Canon 70-200f2.8L IS ii lens then a little love in Lightroom 4.  The lens really makes all the difference in shots like these. 

-Alik Griffin

Took this photograph of Half Dome in Yosemite this weekend. I'll have more later throughout the month as I process them.

Weather was on and off this time, acting like it was wanting to rain and the sun kept peeking in and out behind clouds. You'd have a few minute window to get some awesome photos in some places then the cloud would roll in killing your nice light. I notice at Yosemite the sun kind of disappears behinds some mountains at around 4 or 5. So there isn't much Golden Hour photography you can do from within the canyon.

This was my first time there and really no photograph can capture the size of this place and how small you feel in comparison to everything else. I'll hopefully come back at some point soon and do some actual hiking / photography and spend a few days doing it right. Never realized it but this place is only like a 6 hour drive from Los Angeles. Very cool.

-Alik Griffin