Congratulations to mickey smith and allan wilson for making such a brilliant piece. Nothing sums up mickey smiths photography better than his award winning short film dark side of the lens. Smith optics offers a wide variety of our polarized, mirrored and nonmirrored lenses for our collection of premium performance interchangeable sunglasses. Darkside of the lens single, an album by mickey smith on spotify. In 2010 mickey smith produced the dark side of the lens. Smith ios replacement lenses free shipping tactics. Winner best cinematography, rhode island international film festival, 2011 winner action sports category, vimeo awards 2012 winner. So i began comparing footage in different players and using a colour meter to assess in what way they really were different. Her practice has been engaged with a longstanding inquiry into libraries, books and archives and in particular the social significance of their physical existence or disappearance.
Duluth, minnesota, 1972 is a conceptual artist and photographer. Every nikkor lens optimized for video offers a unique way of telling a story and interpreting a scene with outstanding depthoffield and fast, quiet operation. Initially i was trying new settings and then uploading to vimeo but this was a painfully slow method of testing new methods. It looks like an issue on vimeos side, but you may try clicking on video first before using space to give video focus. This means that they are fully sealed units and can be exchanged underwater. This particular film launched him into the spotlight for a while, only to find him fading into the. Mickey smith is a supporting character on the 2005 relaunch of the british science fiction television series doctor who. Me ma always encouraged us to open our eyes and hearts to the world, make up our own minds through experience, and be inspired. Mickey smith is a fictional character portrayed by noel clarke in the british science fiction television series doctor who. Surrounded by sea and stone, ocean elements were ever present.
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Still look forward to gettin amongst it the dark side of the lens. From home movies to cinematic masterpieces, dslr cameras and their wide selection of interchangeable lenses put amazing creative tools into the hands of amateur and pro filmmakers alike. She wanted to know he was doing what he was doing and what his motivations were. In the same year as his sisters death, mickey produced the dark side of the lens. Darkside of the lens single by mickey smith on spotify. Best used in very sunny conditions, the gold solx lens is the darkest lens smith produces, with a dark sienna brown tint and multilayer gold mirror.
Mickey has received a mcknight artist fellowship for photography as well as grants from forecast public art, cec artslink, and the lower manhattan cultural council. Shop some of our best selling models in last years. She wanted the man behind the lens to come into focus. Mickey smith surf photographer in ireland via cornwall. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests. Smith cycling bike glasses pivlock asana french blue frame chromapop 2. The author has repaired, modified, and designed and analyzed cameras for the past forty five years. Showing rather than telling is the secret to making the math of fstops and lens lengths easy to. The character is introduced as the ordinary, working class boyfriend of rose tyler billie piper, a london shopgirl who becomes a travelling companion to the ninth and tenth incarnations of an alien time lord known as the doctor. Raised near the sea, mickey smith has a natural ability to gather beautiful images and footage from oceans around the world.
You say in your film, i never set out to become anything in particular was photography a calling, or something you backed into. Her works have exhibited throughout the united states, in europe, china, and russia. A cinematographer turned director smith is a mainstay at independent films. Camera technology the dark side of the lens by goldberg. Get the best deals on smith cycling sunglasses when you shop the largest online selection at. Buy smith replacement lens and sunglasses lenses online and save. Smith lists the vlt vertical light transmission of the chromapop polarized brown lens as 14%, while the polarized brown lens is listed at 15%, but i cant detect any difference in how dark the two lenses are. Micky smith is a surf and bodyboard photographer based in the uk. If left uncorrected, this refraction can cause visual distortion and eye fatigue. Mickey smith dark side of the lens if i only scrape a living, at least its a living. I wanna see waveriding documented the way i see it in my head, and the way i feel it in the sea. This enables you to capture macro and wideangle photos during one dive by just simply swapping the. My name is mickey smith, i work with cameras and im a pirate from penzance.
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Dark side of the lens presents the art and inner voice of irish surf photographer mickey smith. This particular film launched him into the spotlight for a while, only to find him fading into the backstage with a bass guitar behind ben howard. Vlt visual light transmission visual light transmission is the percentage of light allowed to pass through a lens. Inspired by the wishes of his sister, this was a film that showcased mickeys refreshingly honest take on the magic of the. Relentless energy presents short stories, a challenge to recognised core sports and music filmmakers. Directors cut and cinematic soundmix of our film darkside of the lens. Mickey smith grew up on the west coast of cornwall. Mickey smiths polished photographs, on view at invisibleexports through december 21, pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool. Cameras held his hand wherever he went, with rolls of super8 and hi8 tapes in one pocket, and hp5 and velvia in another. All the lenses below are also socalled wet or wet interchangeable conversion lenses.
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