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Cameras Help Tell Our Stories

What cameras did your family use to take pictures, movies and videos of your pets and loved ones?  This camera is from 1913, while the cat is 100 years more current.  It’s fun to look at the history and evolution of cameras.  Cameras were invented in the 1700s, but the first photograph to last and…

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Bring Your Home Movie Films into the 21st Century

This professional film production light meter from 1931 is not likely something your father or grandfather would have used when shooting family home movies, but it’s a classic reminder that you need to bring your 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16 mm home movie films into the 21st Century. That’s not to say that movie film…

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Death Ride 2012: One Guy’s Experience

Pssssshh—a hissing sound like that of a soda can being opened isn’t something I wanted to hear coming from the direction of my bike tire.  I was cycling up a steep mountain and had time limits to meet.  Shortly after passing a rider who was changing his inner tube, and thinking that’s not going to…

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Choosing a Video Production and Marketing Company

There’s More to It than That Because, as consumers, we are inundated with visual media every day (pictures, magazines, product packages, billboards, TV, movies, DVDs, web videos, and more) we often underestimate the creative and technical effort required to create good advertising.  It is easy for us to think that someone just pulls out a…

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Video Camera Exposure

Control your camera’s exposure to get better shots. (Click on the title if the video is not visible). [resp_video][jwplayer config=”Home Video” file=”https://patchinpictures.com/video-camera-exposure.f4v” image=”https://patchinpictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/exposure.jpg”][/resp_video]   In Part 4 of How to Shoot Your Kid, I’ll show you how to control the exposure of your video camera, and improve your shooting, no matter what camera you use.…

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Seven Steps Using Video to Get More Customers

Successful business owners and managers take pride in their businesses and have passion for what they do.  That’s why more and more businesses are integrating video into their marketing.  Quality videos placed properly on a business’ website are crucial to the foundation of the business’ image.  A bad video can do more harm than good…

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Use Video Marketing to Improve Your Business

Video marketing can make a difference in your business. (Click on the title if the video is not visible).

Bike MS Las Vegas 2011

A video about riding in Bike MS 2011. (Click on the title if the video is not visible).

Deer Creek & Lee Canyon

Just a little cycling fun at Mt. Charleston, Nevada.  (Click on the title if the video is not visible).

Hard Hundred

I just couldn’t understand why I was so exhausted after only 47 miles of riding. Yes, I’d just climbed from my house in Vegas, up past Red Rock Overlook, out to the 160, up and over Mt. Potosi, and almost all the way into Lovell Canyon Road, but my mind was on 100 miles. I’d…

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