"Striving to Get It Right The First Time... Every Time"
Tamarack Video Productions, Ely,MN.
Professional Commercial Video Production for both Pros and Consumers
Serving North Eastern
Minnesota, The Boundary Waters, Lake Superior
Ely, Babbitt, Tower, Soudan, Duluth,
Superior, Virginia, Eveleth, Hibbing, Grand Rapids, Grand Marais,
International Falls, Isabella, Finland, Cook, Orr, Cloquet, Hermantown,
Two Harbors, Lutsen
About Tamarack Video
Tamarack started up in 2009 but the depth of our
staff goes back into the dark ages of analog 2" Quad video tape, B&W
cameras and telecine machines. .. When the only digital device in
the studio was a light switch.
"We've probably been there ... done that"
About Our Chief Videographer
I'm a recently retired chef that started his professional life four score and... well not quite that long ago.
First, call me a cinemaniac. I love the old films made in the 30's, 40's, 50 's & some of the 60's.
A graduate of the USN's Advanced Electronics Computer program where I learned all there was about antiquated, hybrid analog/digital computers (no permanent memory invented yet and data travelling at an astounding speed measured in... are you ready... BITS ... per MINUTE). After leaving the navy I attended a small but prestigious photography school after turning down a full scholarship at Rochester (NY) School of Photography & graduated with honors. My first job after school was as a professional fashion photographer. No I didn't get to shoot those exquisite clothes horses for Vogue. I shot bras, panties & socks for a major N.Y.C. catalog house with accounts like Lane Bryant, Sears, Monkey Ward & JC Penny. I also was their number one film color corrector/printer.
Moving on I started my own SOHO, N.Y.C. custom color photo printing service for nit picky, photographers & general off the wall artists (like myself). I did have one, one man show in NYC of 8x10 inch Ektachrome transparencies (slides). I also made some experimental "art films, animations & videos" that were ...how did they say it..."Interesting".
Went back to school in N.Y.C. majoring in feature film production. Worked on a few student films and minor feature films & documentaries as lighting designer and sound recorder. In 1976 I was a founding member of a group that started the very first (anywhere) public access television production company. I became the managing director & chief engineer of the first & only public access TV studio in the US. It served NYC artists and non commercial clients. We produced studio & remotely mastered TV shows for NYC public access TV channels.
Moved to the mid west and interviewed for a job in TV program production. The department head that interviewed me had actually been in NYC watching the only public access TV channel in the world (at that time) when a documentary about NYC street musicians aired...once. I was the audio recording engineer that captured incredibly clean music in the very "audio hostile" environment of downtown NYC streets. He remembered the quality of the B&W documentary (and especially the audio), remembered my name from the closing credits of the video & offered me the job of audio/video engineer on the spot! (for three times the money I was making at the time)
I was an audio/video engineer and video editor for nearly ten years on local & national TV shows. I worked for CBS, ABC, PBS and for many, many corporate video for clients such as Hormel, IBM, Control Data, Pillsbury, US Banks, Deluxe Checks, 3M, and many others.
Concurrently with my Video & Audio work I owned & operated an "analog" photo retouching business. Analog because I did it the old fashion way...with very, very tiny camel hair brushes, air brushes and dyes.
Left it all behind one day & moved and became a chef at a great restaurant, then opened my own catering company and then my own upscale restaurant. Eighteen years later I'm closing the circle... only I'm doin' it digital this time
Roy M
Chief Videgrapher
