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Interview with Cinemills

A little interview about lighting I did with Cinemills recently: http://cinemillls.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-spotlight-jacob-abrams.html

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Michael Jackson “Slave To The Rhythm” Hologram & Behind the scenes

Another very cool project I worked on recently. I was both a camera operator on the main hologram as well as the Director of photography on the behind the scenes. We shot on Red Dragons and Epics courtesy of Panavision Hollywood, and used a variety of lenses, such as Zeiss Master primes, Panavision Primos, Alura zooms and Angenieux Optimo zooms. Here is the Hologram as seen at the Billboard music awards, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDRTghGZ7XU And here are three behind the scenes videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSaMhHnQvNg&feature=youtu.be & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPcng48uaxw...

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Natalia Kills BTS videos for “Problem” and “Saturday Night”

Here are the BTS videos from two of craziest, but most fun music videos I worked on last year. I shot "Problem" and was the gaffer on "Saturday Night." Problem: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5638226/natalia-kills-problem-behind-the-scenes-video-exclusive-premiere?utm_source=twitter Saturday Night: http://www.teenvogue.com/entertainment/music/2013-07/natalia-kills-saturday-night-behind-the-scenes-video

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Infiniti Q50 Commercials

In an attempt to catch up with the crazy year that has been 2013, here are a few commercials I Gaffed for Infiniti. https://vimeo.com/68349211 https://vimeo.com/68349394 https://vimeo.com/68349347 https://vimeo.com/68349214 https://vimeo.com/68349215 https://vimeo.com/68349216 As always, hit read more to get the working links. This shoot was early in the year, but one of the most fun sets of 2013. More to come...

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“Inspiration Starts Here” BTS video

Long overdue, but here is the behind the scenes video from the shoot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4_cF3mJ6U. As always, click read more to follow the link. It seems like this commercial is one of the few topics on my sparsely populated blog. A commercial from a year ago. But what about everything else that happened in 2012? Well, I guess I was too busy shooting to blog much. First year in Los Angeles, and an interesting one it was. I'm working on putting together a few more posts soon about what happened in the last year. All sorts of topics, from BTS info to a breakdown of my most used...

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