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Steven Curtis Chapman plays and sings at Summit 8 at Saddleback Church.

I had the joy of making this quick video to thank the volunteers of Grace EV Free Church in La Mirada. These workers do such a great job and the students and parents give them thanks.

Thank you to the church volunteer youth workers at Grace EV Free La Mirada. from Brian Petersen on Vimeo.

Shot to thank the wonderful volunteers at Grace EV Free Church in La Mirada.

The making of:
It was shot and edited by Brian A Petersen on a Canon 5D Mk3 using a 50mm lens and an Audio Technica boom through a Juice Box convertor. Edited in Final Cut Pro 7.

The video was shot during one of our services by walking around to meet various people and the edit was done in one night. The footage was transferred onto my Mac and was imported. I used the raw h.264 footage from the camera as I wasn’t able to log and transfer to a 422 lt file from the CF card that I had.

I found that the the Canon 5D MK3 footage was crashing my FCP 7 repeatedly and took me several hours to figure out the issue. I haven’t had issues with other DSLR footage especially as I normally use my Canon 60d for most videos I do. After a couple hours of having FCP crash every ten minutes, I found that the Perian plug in for QuickTime was the issue that I had previously installed to work with flv and window clips on my Mac. After uninstalling the plugin, I was able to edit and export without issue.

About Brian A Petersen:

Brian A Petersen has become a premier photographer and videographer based in the Southern California region in the United States. Whether he is photographing the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, covering humanitarian issues in Nepal, shooting a wedding in Orange County, or documenting the orphan crisis in Romania, Brian provides professionalism with years of experience with photography, video, and media distribution. His work has been widely published in local and international web and print outlets.

Brian’s media and photography has been published by CNN, Waves, UCLA, the United Nations Millennium Campaign Organization, the Surrey Museum in British Columbia, Berklee College of Music, Designaré Fashion Magazine, the Academy of Ancient Music in London, Hard Rock Cafe, Mix for the Masters, Together for Adoption, folks at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Eddie Kramer Archives, Grace EV Free, Biola University, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Joni Eareckson Tada and Friends, O.C. Register, Oxygene Media, Gearslutz, and Church Production Magazine. His work has also been seen on greeting cards, music albums, museum programs in Canada, tour guide photos in London, logos in the Middle East, backstage at the Grammy Awards, and billboards in Hollywood and Asia. Brian’s web gallery views on Flickr total at over 1.5 million views and his work is published regularly through non profit organizations. His photos and videos published on the Waves site has over 500,000 visitors per month.

With a background in media production, Brian has served on design and installation teams for live sound, recording, and video production. He studied music and studio production at Long Beach City College, has a B.S. in Organizational Leadership from Biola, a TESOL Certificate from an International School in Shanghai, China, studied in the School of Entrepreneurship at CSULB, and is working toward a M.Div at Talbot in the Los Angeles area. He enjoys orphanage and service projects to the third world poor, and has enjoyed travel and ministry to numerous countries including China, Romania, Nepal, Japan, and Nicaragua. He currently serves at Grace EV Free in La Mirada and is a Media Contributor for Waves based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Brian is currently accepting photography and media assignments both locally and globally.

I am blessed with the dear friendship of Bryan and Kathryn Kuranaga, and it was a great joy to celebrate their beautiful wedding day. May they have many more sweet days ahead and the best is yet to come!

Thank you to Mary Massie for assisting with photos for the wedding and you can see more pictures on her blog at http://beautyheldcaptive.blogspot.com/

Enjoy the photos below and enjoy the video from the big day courtesy of Ryan McDuff at http://mcduffproductions.com/

Bryan & Kathryn Wedding Short from ryan mcduff on Vimeo.

It was a beautiful day!

Thank you to Mary Massie for assisting with photography for the wedding, and for Ryan McDuff for his wonderful video skills to capture the day.

The wedding was at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada and the reception was at the La Mirada Country Club.

The best is yet to come!

It’s an honor to have Studio La Fabrique in France, and Mix With the Masters using my photo of Eddie Kramer for the upcoming seminar in April.

See more of my photos of Eddie Kramer of my other post at:
http://brianapetersen.com/2011/06/eddie-kramer-with-mpx-for-waves/

http://www.mixwiththemasters.com/KRAMER.html
MIX with the MASTERS 2012 – Exceptional One-Week Music Production Seminars

We are glad to announce that recording engineers, producers and mixers JOE CHICCARELLI, EDDIE KRAMER and AL SCHMITT will each conduct a week-long seminar in April 2012 in Studio La Fabrique (www.studioslafabrique.com) in Saint-Rémy de Provence, France.

During each session, a series of workshops will be held ranging from production and mixing techniques to career advices. The guest speakers will be working with the attendees to produce, record and mix a song with a band as well as working on the participants’ projects.
Guests are provided with accommodation and meals and stay in the residential part of La Fabrique mansion for 7 days.
They will be able to utilize the great facilities the house has to offer including the swimming pool, the fitness center and the gardens.

For more information or to submit an application, visit:
http://www.mixwiththemasters.com
YouTube – MixWithTheMASTERS’s Channel

EDDIE KRAMER is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with, among others, Led Zeppelin, Triumph, Kiss, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Spooky Tooth, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon, Loudness, and Robin Trower.

KRAMER joined Olympic Sound Studios in London, where he engineered albums for acts including Traffic, Small Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, for whom Kramer engineered every album from Are You Experienced to The Cry of Love. After Hendrix’s death he co-produced War Heroes, Rainbow Bridge and Hendrix in the West.

In 1968, KRAMER moved to New York to work at the Record Plant, engineering Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland LP and also worked with Vanilla Fudge, Joe Cocker and NRBQ. Working independently from 1969, Kramer engineered Led Zeppelin II – the first of five albums he engineered for the band.

EDDIE KRAMER was director of engineering at Electric Lady Studios from 1970-1974, producing the posthumous Hendrix records, as well as albums by Carly Simon, Sha Na Na, Jobriath and Peter Frampton. While there he engineered albums for artists as diverse as Dionne Warwick and David Bowie.

He produced and engineered Buddy Guy’s Slippin’ In (1995), which received a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Record and a W.C. Handy Blues Foundation Album of the Year award.

In 2010, KRAMER produced and engineered a single for the Claire Stahlecker Band called “Never Stop Lovin’ You”.
EDDIE KRAMER will conduct a MIX With The MASTERS masterclass from April 11th until April 17th, 2012.

Eddie Kramer’s official website: http://eddiekramer.net/

You can read more here: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/671012-mix-masters-2012-joe-chiccarelli-eddie-kramer-al-schmitt.html

El Capitan at Sunset in Yosemite.
Taken on September 5, 2011

Photography by Brian Petersen at http://www.brianapetersen.com

Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Kiss, David Bowie
Any producer is only as good as the music he helps create. By this standard, Eddie Kramer must be regarded as a legend. In the course of a production and engineering career that has spanned 30 years, Kramer has been behind the boards for the biggest names in music – The Rolling Stones, Traffic, Peter Frampton, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, David Bowie, The Beatles and Bad Company, just to name a few. But he is perhaps best known for three long-term associations in which he not only helped create some of the most important music of the rock era, but also set standards for rock production that set him aside as a true innovator. His work with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Kiss produced music which continues to influence rock musicians and producers today.

Born in South Africa, Eddie studied classical piano, cello and violin at the prestigious South African college of Music. At a young age, his interest switched from classical to jazz. He moved to England at 19, where he recorded local jazz groups in a home-based studio and installed hi-fi equipment as a hobby. In 1964, he joined Pye Studios, and recorded a variety of artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Petula Clark, and The Kinks, demonstrating a versatility, which Eddie possesses to this day.

In 1965, Kramer established the sophisticated KPS Studios, which, despite its rudimentary 2-track recording capability, gained such a reputation that in less than a year they were bought out by Regent Sound. They enlisted Kramer to oversee construction of their new four-track studio.

Getting “Experienced”

Kramer’s next stop was Olympic Sound studios where he developed a fantastic reputation among the bands of the time – Small Faces, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, among others. His association with Hendrix was the most powerful one, and the one that lasted the longest. Kramer engineered every Hendrix album from “Are You Experienced” to “Cry of Love,” and after Hendrix’s death co-produced the posthumous releases “War Heroes,” “Rainbow Bridge” and “Hendrix in the West.”

In 1968, Kramer came to work at the Record Plant in NYC, engineering Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland” LP, and also worked with Vanilla Fudge, Joe Cocker, and NRBQ. In 1969, Kramer went independent, producing Johnny Winter’s first LP and engineering Led Zeppelin II, acknowledged by fans and critics alike as perhaps that bands most influential work. This led to work on five albums with the band, half of their overall output. This pairing provided some historic moments. As Eddie tells of one particular session, “Zep II was mixed over a two day period in New York, and at one point there was bleed-through of a previously recorded vocal in the recording of “Whole Lotta Love.” It was the middle part where Robert (Plant) screams “Wo-man. You need it.” Since we couldn’t re-record at that point, I just threw some echo on it to see how it would sound and Jimmy (Page) said “Great! Just leave it.”

Woodstock

Soon afterwards, Kramer was recruited to record the Woodstock festival for both the album and the movie. “I arrived at dawn and was struck by the sight of the sun rising over what appeared to be the stage. The show was scheduled to start by lunchtime. That panic pretty much set the tone for the entire concert. All of us in the crew had Vitamin B shots, so that we would be able to stay up for three days. The whole thing was recorded under the most primitive of conditions, but we got it done,” says Kramer. “Woodstock was 3 days of hell and drugs”.

Woodstock established Kramer as one of the most important live music producers of the rock era, starting a series of artists recorded live which would ultimately include Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, John Mayall, The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, David Bowie, Derek and The Dominoes, and others.

Electric Lady Studios

Hendrix quickly hired Kramer to build a state of the art studio. After 13 months and a million dollars, Electric Lady Studios was complete, and Kramer served as its Director of Engineering from 1970 – 1974. During this time, in addition to producing the posthumous Hendrix records, Kramer produced records by Carly Simon, Sha Na Na and Peter Frampton, and engineered albums for artists as diverse as Dionne Warwick and Lena Horne, David Bowie’s “Live at the Spectrum” and “Young Americans,” featuring “Fame” with John Lennon, and Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy” and “Physical Graffiti,” among others.

In 1975, Kramer left Electric Lady Studios to work with the No. 1 band in America at the time and produced “Kiss Alive.” In addition to producing “Rock and Roll Over,” “Love Gun,” “Alive II” and “Double Platinum” for Kiss, Kramer worked on Ace Frehley’s first solo record, Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains the Same” (the album and the movie), Peter Frampton’s historic “Frampton Comes Alive” LP, and The Rolling Stones “Love Ya Live,” three of the most popular live albums of the rock era. In the last three decades, Kramer has produced countless bands from Anthrax, Motley Crue, and Twisted Sister to Buddy Guy, Sting and Carlos Santana. He produced the Hendrix tribute album, “Stone Free,” for Warner Bros., which features tracks from artists such as: The Cure, Eric Clapton, The Spin Doctors, Seal/Jeff Beck, Slash/Paul Rodgers, and others. The album has generated approximately $1,000,000 in charitable funds which have been donated to the United Negro College Fund as musical scholarships to The Berklee School of Music, Julliard School of Music, and The Dance Theatre of Harlem. Since 1997, he has remastered all of the Jimi Hendrix albums from the original master tapes for Experience Hendrix/MCA. Eddie won a Grammy in 2002 for his work with Carlos Santana and Michelle Branch on the single, “The Game of Love.” Eddie has also worked with Lauren Hill on her new album.

Eddie’s photographs may be viewed at www.kramerarchives.com.

Read more: http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=3385#ixzz1Qmoxf8yK

This photo is being used by the Biola University Library on their twitter page http://twitter.com/biolalibrary

“You are the light of the world.”

The roses continue to bloom on Easter Sunday.

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb. The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first; and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself. So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she *saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing Him to be the gardener, she *said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus *said to her, “Mary!” She turned and *said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher). Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene *came, announcing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.
John 20 nasb

Photography by Brian Petersen at www.brianapetersen.com

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A green fern in my garden Arabella after a rainy day. View on flickr and download here.

Pink Rose, originally uploaded by bpbp Brian Petersen.