A SHORT SEASON

I left my optics at home so I would film more. Now, I’m just sitting on the hill while Chase and Zach glass. And I’m slapped again, but not by the wind.

By the time you hear the thwap, it’s already over.

The second annual Coues N Brews is set for March or April. This year the films move outside to a big screen in the alley, and we’re opening a call for your Coues hunting films.

I was filming Cam Hanes hunt moose in Alaska when we woke to six inches of fresh snow and zero visibility. Every instinct said stay in the tent. Cam had other plans, and what he said that day has stuck with me ever since.

I thought about subtitling this little short film: how to ruin a kid’s life. But, I didn’t. It references an inside jab between me and Chase, when Laney, his oldest daughter drew a coveted, maybe hopefully once-in-a-lifetime desert sheep tag. Chase references our conversation in the film when he notes, “She may not know what she’s done, but I sure

I released our newest video project: Memories: The Stuff Of Life on YouTube and Instagram Sunday. It delivers a message I’ve been thinking about since I was pulled kicking and screaming into middle age several years ago. The message is one from your older self looking back on the years. I used AI to age myself into an old man

A framework for getting the edit started that works every time. Everyone who edits hunting films has faced this moment… footage scattered across drives, multiple camera angles, and the lingering question: “Where do I start?” The solution lies in defining your film’s most important part, its backbone. And in hunting films, that backbone is always, always, always the kill-shot sequence.

I’ve been making outdoor and hunting films for a while now, about fifteen years. Over the course of that decade and a half, I’ve learned an awful lot. When I compare my work now to my work back then, it’s clearly improved. My cuts are clean. Audio levels are normal. Color is corrected. It’s a testament that you get better

Like most beginners, I made a lot of mistakes when I first started making hunting films. But this was the biggest one, by far: Every cut I made was made to hit a beat on a music track. Here’s what happened: It was so easy to make cuts this way and viewers seemed to like it. But, it’s also worth

I get asked this question a lot: “Hey Jay, hope you’re doing great! I’m going on a hunting trip and I want to try my hand at filming it. Do you have any recommendations for a good entry-level camera I can get at Best Buy?” It’s always the same: “What camera should I get?” When I was just starting out,

There are numerous books about photography and filmmaking. I’ve read most of them, but the best book I’ve found on filmmaking, especially for beginners, is “How To Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck” by Steve Stockman. Here are a few reasons why: If you’re even remotely interested in making hunting videos, I highly recommend this book. (And if you’ve read it,

I don’t consider myself an expert in filmmaking. Not in the same sense as anyone working in Hollywood, at least. However, I have spent over 10 years reading and learning about cameras and video editing, and at this point have used that knowledge to create hundreds of hunting and hunting-related videos that have garnered millions of views. I’ve worked with

watched a video on YouTube this week and that was the title. “I’m Dead.” It turned up in my suggested videos with over 3 million views at the time (as of writing this it’s wracked up more than 7 million). Me, with my fascination with death and the psychology of death couldn’t resist watching it. At least for the first