Money where my mouth is // my own wedding film
My job is to convince people to commission us to capture their wedding, at no small cost to them. Perhaps it would help them to know that I am not a hypocrite by sharing my wedding film. Today is my wife and I’s fifth wedding anniversary. Before I waffle on, I ought to just state […]
The highlight of highlights – Wedding Film “reel”
We’ve been in the process of separating all the non-wedding content out of this site (our new commercial brand is Simmerdim – go check it out) and last to be updated is the first thing anyone sees – our highlight banner reel. We’re not really into creating a showreel for the wedding company, as we […]
Getting technical with wedding film aesthetics
This week we’ve been diving into the technicalities of our wedding film aesthetics. As you’ll know from our previous post, we’ve just upgraded to a new camera. The Sony a7sii is more capable than the Canon DSLRs we shot with in many areas but one novel one is its dynamic range and picture profiles. We […]
Top 10 Christmas Movies – as determined by a 30-something bloke
Christmas, the season of good cheer, feasting, terrible office secret Santa and evergreen movies. Here at the Robin’s Nest, we are massive Christmas movies fans. Mainly because they a.) are usually joyous; and b.) often hugely profound (well some are). They’ve even perhaps subtly influenced our editing when it comes to winter weddings. So here, […]
Dunkirk – an absolute masterpiece of cinema
Dunkirk, the most anticipated film of the summer, seems to be something of a marmite film for the critics. But we’re going to lay our cards on the table and say that it is one of the finest films made in the last decade. Marmite film? It seems that this film either grabs you, or […]
Bro, do you even shoot 4k? – Wedding Videography
Wedding videography is the place to be if you want to learn quickly. The pressure of needing to catch the moments, exposed and composed well, is intense. It is run’n’gun at its purest. So the systems need to be compact and versatile. The capability of cameras systems has shot up in recent years. Panasonic are […]
Edinburgh Festival Fireworks
On Monday night the 2016 Edinburgh Festival came to a close with the traditional Edinburgh Festival Fireworks (known locally as the end of festival fireworks and officially as the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert). The Edinburgh Festival Fireworks – the city comes together In Edinburgh, this concert is probably one of the key community events of […]
11 Scottish Movie Locations Where You Can Get Married
Scotland was recently voted as the World’s #1 Cinematic Destination by readers of USA Today. Wouldn’t it be great to get married in a real location which you know from the silver screen? In Scotland, if you opt for a Humanist ceremony, you can get married anywhere. So dramatic locations such as The Quiraing or […]