Projects

How to Figure the True Cost of a Kickstarter Project

Focus of Project The first big question is do I got for all the money I actually need (to film, edit, and send to festivals) or focus the project on one specific event, and take it one step at a time, with future projects for different stages of the production. … Well, if you were 100% honest and your project budget is the bare minimum you need to complete it, then where is that couple of hundred dollars supposed to come from?

How to Operate Your DSLR via Your iPhone for $4

Want to control your digital SLR camera from your iPhone (or Touch)? When I was taking pictures of grilled cheese sandwiches, there was a bit of downtime between the grillin', so I figured out how to work this totally awesome magic, all for less than $4. (While...

Grilled Food Photography

So here's one of the images from the food photography shoot. And here's the lighting setup: My main goal was to fill the image with as much soft light as possible. This setup is what I settled with later on. Main light behind the food, kind of low to rake across the...

Cheesy Photos

Heading back from Vero Beach after a grilled cheese photo shoot. It's for Grilligans, this awesome resturaunt that makes a variety of grilled cheese sandwiches and delicious shakes (a perk of food photography is you get to try everything). Here's a teaser photo. I'll...

Dolphin Bay – Video

Dolphin Bay from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. A few weeks back when I went up to the film school to take pictures at their Gala, I was invited to tag along to go swimming with dolphins and film it. Um, awesome. Gabrielle has been swimming with this same pod off the coast of...

Now Available on DVD

Last week I officially finished You 2.0, the doc that delayed graduation a semester, and self released it on DVD. It's a niche film, and I felt like it would work better just selling it myself as a DVD (it has a unique structure) rather than waste time trying to get...

A Figment of My Reality

This past week I've been in New York, catching up with a bunch of long, lost Film School peeps and making the rounds to the museums, hitting up the Model as Muse exhibit at the Met, Richard Avedon's Fashion Photography at ICP, and the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition for...

College on a Kodak Brownie

I like collecting old cameras. I mainly get them at antique stores. I have only three requirements: they have to be under $10, they have to look cool, and they have to work. Most cameras I come across do work. If you think about it there isn't much to go wrong. A...