Videographer in Toronto, Ontario

This document is available at: http://....ly Mir Lada lives lighting. Every moment during everyday life, he observes and dissects light, for his mind’s lighting database. This has given him the ability to quickly spec lighting type and position mentally, tracking well with the final set-up, and the finished footage. This saves time and money on set. Combining his love of design and art, with his interests and experiences with technology, Mir possesses a well-rounded skill set with related fields such as cameras, optics, grip, set design, and CGI. Having done thousands of shoots with still transparency film, and having to have exposure within 1/3 stop of perfection, without the luxury of any monitor or EVF, his eye is naturally tuned to deal with life’s contrast ranges. With decades of experience working with advertising, corporate and entertainment clients and talent, as a commercial photographer Mir has photographed thousands of people, products, interiors, as well as naturally integrating CGI environments with photography. MIr’s transition to motion, with the additional challenge of the dimension of time, was inevitable. Young at heart and energetic, Mir also appreciates today’s trends in design, clothing, and music, and such can understand concepts and styles in the projects he is involved with, whether music videos, commercials, corporate, or educational. Mir owns and operates Boa, a lighting, grip, and DSLR rental house with thousands of pieces of classic and cutting-edge lighting and grip. He updates himself daily on today’s and tomorrow’s technologies, with a regard to yesterday’s techniques. Mir is very at ease with digital technologies, being involved in digitally altering imagery since 1993, CGI since 1995, high-end digital capture since 2001, and throughout that time, setting up and troubleshooting Macs. In 2014, Mir has been setting up a smaller 2000 sf pre-lit motion studio in Etobicoke, within his 4000 sf gear rental facility, which is available for day rentals. Mir reps four other complimentary studios in Toronto; owns a 1 ton van; has liability insurance; and has experience driving up to 26’ G license straight trucks. Mir has high-level knowledge of Canon and Nikon DSLR systems, and working knowledge of tools, mechanics, rigging, materials, electrical, and optics. All of his resources are available for hire. With smaller productions that don’t have a lot of set and lighting changes throughout the day, Mir will often do double duty as on-set stills photographer or grip, or even occasionally operates simpler digital motion cameras. Mir is very “hands-on” and willing to enthusiastically and creatively assist in whatever department needs an extra hand at the moment. Mir is easy-going, cool under pressure, good at creative “out of the box” solutions, and enjoys collaborating with, and assisting others. Lighting rental (owned, in-house) highlights: LED: Arri L7C, Arri Locaster x 2 kit, Arri Broadcaster x 2 kit, 3x CN600 daylight LED, 1x1 daylight LED with 4 switchable banks (no dimmer), Ikan 144 LED w/ multiple col temp, 2x2 Rosco daylight HMI (about 50 count) SINGLES: 6/12k PAR HMI with electronic ballast, 12k fresnel HMI w/ both electronic and magnetic ballasts, 6k fresnel HMI magnetic, 4k PAR HMI electronic, 4k fresnel HMI electronic, 4k fresnel HMI magnetic, 800w PAR all-weather electronic, 400w PAR all-weather electronic, 200w PAR HMI electronic, and 3 units of the unique Profoto 1.2k bare bulb and compact electronic ballast HMI, ideal for lanterns, soft boxes, sunlight in small quarters, or gritty overhead looks….plus it takes all Profoto reflectors. HMI MULTIPLE: 2.5k PAR HMI electronic & magnetic, 2.5k fresnel HMI electronic & magnetic, 1.2k PAR HMI electronic & magnetic, 1.2k fresnel HMI electronic & magnetic, 1.2k soft HMI electronic and magnetic, 1.2k bare bulb HMI electronic, 575w PAR HMI electronic & magnetic, 575w fresnel HMI electronic & magnetic, 575w open-faced flood HMI electronic & magnetic, 200w fresnel HMI magnetic, 270w and 200w sunguns. TUNGSTEN: over 250 fixtures ranging from 10k to 100w fresnels; 1, 2, and 4k softs; 6k Barger Baglite for Chgimeras, over 50 Ellipsoidals 575w-2k; two 9 lites; Many 2k Mighty Moles and Blondes, 1k Mickey Mole open, over a dozen 1k starlight bare bulb, for dozens of Chimeras up to 6k capacity for our tungsten and HMI fixtures. Many hundreds of practical bulbs, including stringers. FLOURESCENT (complete with daylight and tungsten bulb sets 1 spare): 2x 4x2’ Mole Biax 2 dimmable w/ case (2x55w similar to Diva 201’s); 2x Lowel Caselight 4’s (4x55w) with 4 switches, black eggcrate; 2x Brightline 2 bulb DMX dimmable (2x55w) silver eggcrate; Lowel 6x4’ (4x40w) folding bank; 3x 6 bulb, 3 bank generic (6x55w), huge inventory of high output ballasts and T8/T12 tombstones for custom installs of any size (10x17’ soft box with 40x 4’ available). GRIP HIGHLIGHTS: over 20 1/4-20 spud lightweight stands, 26 baby mount stands various sizes, 21 Junior stands from lowboys to crank to wide wide sky highs, 24 C stands, 30 arms, 16 stand cart. Lots of accessories. 50 milk crates of small grip. Dozens of totes and carts of electrical up to 4/0 cam-lok. Extensive tools. 30 sand bags. 100 lbs of Barbell weights for camera cranes, 17x90’ bleached seamless muslin, 28x78’ digital green, two 17x36’ chroma greens, 20x30’ chroma blue, 8x8 chroma blue/green reversible, 12x12 digital green with black backing, 200’ of 12’ high black curtain and rags; extensive choice of rags from 6x6 to 30x30, with two 12x12 and one 20x20 4’ snap together overhead frames. portable platform dolly and hard rubber track, Axis dolly with steel track, 5’ linear bed, 4x4 floppies, frames, 216; 2x3 flag kits, 3x3 gel frames, tons of 18x24 flags, scrims, silks, frames. Cookies and shiny boards various sizes. 5 sheets of 5/8 smooth ply for doorway dolly work GRIP HIGHLIGHTS: (note, we are doing a lot of inventory updates. Items underlined are available for rental as well as for sale. Items in italics are coming soon, so let us know when you need it for) Canon (Note Nikon AIs & D lenses work great for motion work with our adapters for Canon bodies) full frame: Canon 5DII, 5DIII, Rokinon 14mm f2.8, 16-35mm f2.8L, 16-35mm f4L IS, 17mm TS-E f4L, 24mm TS-E f3.5L, 24mm TS-E IIL f3.5L, 24mm f1.4L, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VR, Sigma 35mm f1.4 ART, Sigma 50mm f1.4 ART, 50mm f1.2 SSC w/ Ed Micka conversion, 50mm f1.4, 85mm f1.2IIL, Rokinon 85mm T1.5 cine w/ focus and stepless aperture gears, 90mm f2.8L TS-E, 100mm f2.8L macro, 100mm f2, 135mm f2L, 70-200mm f2.8L IS , 70-200mm f2.8IIL IS, Tamron 200-500mm f5-5.6 SP, Tamron 150-600mm f4-6.3 VR, Tamron 2x, 300MM F4L IS, 1.4xII, extensive range of medium format high megapixel camera systems for Ken Burns effect. crop only: 60D, 70D, 7DII, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8, 17-55mm f2.8 IS, 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 STM Nikon (have 2 adapters for Canon bodies): Full frame: D810, Sigma 12-24mm f4-5.6, 1...mm f2.8, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC, Rokinon 14mm T3.1 cine, 35mm T1.5 cine, 85mm T1.5 cine lenses w/ focus and de-clicked aperture gears (includes 2 EF mount adapters on request), Sigma 35mm f1.4 ART, Sigma 50mm f1.4 ART, 50mm f1.4D, 50mm f2.8D micro, 70-300mm f4-5.6 VR G, 85mm f1.8D, Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro, 180mm f2.8 IF-ED MF, 400mm f3.5 IF-ED MF, TC-301 2x MF, lensbaby composer crop only: D7000, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8, 16-85mm f3.5-6.6 VR two complete and complimentary Panasonic HVX200 systems for rent or sale, with hard drive recorder, manfrotto dedicated electronic follow focus for Fig Rig, Nikon mount Letus Extreme