Barcelona GO! | Short Film by Rob Whitworth

This short film by Rob Whitworth is awesome!  It was shot using only Nikon cameras and lenses.

BARCELONA in Flow-Motion - A fast moving short film.... In few other cities is it possible to walk from spectacular location to spectacular location. I had a fantastic time adventuring around Barcelona's winding streets making this film. Special thanks to Ferran Macià Edo and his colleagues from Agència Catalana de Turisme (Catalan Tourism Board) for helping me get access to shoot at numerous stunning locations including: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Gran Teater del Liceu Sagrada Familia Museu D'Historia De Barcelona Palau de la Música Santa Maria del Pi And an extra special thanks to Marta Garriga Bardalet for patiently modelling during an uncharacteristically cold and rainy day.

My time in numbers: 
363 hours work
75 Hours Logistics and Travel
31 Hours Scouting and Location Finding
78 Hours Shooting
179 Hours Post Production

26014 Camera Raw Files
817gb of data

Kit List
Nikon D800 DSLR
Nikon D7100 DSLR
Nikon D7100 DSLR
Nikon D3200 DSLR
Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye
NIkon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED AF-S DX
Nikon 16-35 f/4G AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor
Nikon 28mm AF f/2.8D
Nikon 50mm f/1.4G AF-S
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VR II
Promote Control

Sound Design and Music: Slava Pogorelsky
Email: kultenyeuk@walla.com
Facebook: facebook.com/Kultenyeuk

Rob Whitworth
Website: robwhitworth.co.uk/
Email: rob@robwhitworth.com.hk
Facebook: facebook.com/RobWhitworthPhotography
Twitter: twitter.com/kwhi02

$20,000 Smartphone features Hasselblad Camera

By Lisa Eadicicco, Business Insider

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Smartphones are expensive. In most cases, you need to shell out about $200 to get a good phone with a two-year contract. Those prices skyrocket to the $600-to-$700 range when you buy a phone off-contract.

That amount of money sounds like petty cash compared to what luxury brand Vertu charges for its smartphones.

The company launched its Vertu Signature Touch smartphone (pictured) earlier this month, and it costs between $10,000 and $22,000, depending on how you customize it. 

So what makes Vertu's smartphones so expensive? The company claims it's all about the materials it uses.

All of Vertu's smartphones are handmade in England, according to the company's website. Vertu handwrites its signature on each phone to show it was created by a single craftsman start to finish. 

The phone's casing is made of natural-grain alligator leather and grade five titanium alloy, which Vertu claims is two-and-a-half times stronger than stainless steel but is still light.

The display, made of sapphire crystal, can reportedly withstand the weight of a "200g ball bearing dropped from a height of one metre," according to the company.

Vertu has teamed up with Bang and Olufsen for the speakers in this device, claiming its camera is certified by Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad. 

Other than its appearance, the Vertu Signature Touch doesn't seem to be much different than your average smartphone.

The phone comes with a 4.7-inch 1080p display and a 13-megapixel camera and runs on a 2.3-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, the same chip you'll find in today's flagships like the Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8.

It's unclear exactly what accounts for the differences in price. Specifically, Engadget reports the prices range between $10,300 and $21,900, while The Wall Street Journal reports the black alligator version costs $14,100.

Vertu does mention that buyers can choose different designs and colors. You can get your name or a phrase engraved on the phone.

Vertu's Signature Touch smartphone is unfathomably priced for the everyday user, but it's not the most expensive phone in the world.

Luxury gadget designer Stuart Hughes recreated the iPhone 5's chassis with solid gold and embedded a rare black diamond in the body. Hughes' iPhone 5 sells for an unimaginable $15 million.

Cool review about one of my sponsors CloudUp

Check out this great review about CloudUp.  I've been using CloudUp since they launched and have been loving it.  It's an extremely convenient and fast way to share pretty much anything you can drag into it.  I primarily use it to share photos and video from shoots with clients as well as for creating mood boards.  I also use it for sharing audio files for music projects with my band.  Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend it as a great alternative to DropBox, YouSendIt, etc . . .