Ruby red is an awesome new cafe in Mangere Bridge.

I have just posted a web commercial I shot for the owners. Its listed on YouTube and is been used for online and social marketing purposes.

The video was shot mostly hand held with Vibration reduction lenses. I quite like a bit of movement in video shots without sharp camera shake. The environment has a cool 50`s style jazz feel about it so we just lay a track through the clip-nice and simple.

One of the things I really like about shooting motion and video is that it forces you to slow down, compose your images, meter manually, and consider light quality a bit more.

I find using handheld light meters is the way to go for video work. The ambient light metering of a handheld gives a better overall feel of the light quality as opposed to reflective camera metering which can produce highlights and other annoying anomalies. It simplifies the process as well. I just used two exposures for the 90 second clip-one for inside, and one for outside.