Sailfish, Better known as "Hey! I should take a video while I draw!"

 Funny how things work. A wall-mount sailfish, offered up by a neighbor. I've always wanted a sailfish or a marlin or any other large billfish to hang on the wall. Well, I didn't get to catch it, but, there it is on the wall in our lanai. It fits the room great:



I picked up a simple overhead rig with a ring light and phone mount and hit record. The framing isn’t perfect, and I learned a few things along the way, but sometimes that’s exactly the point. You don’t wait until you know how to do something, you do it once and learn from it.


It's fun to learn new things about making videos and getting to apply them in sharing my art makes it even better. 

-- D & J



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