;-)

Really like that chick drummer/artist piece Tom. Did you shoot that with your Sony HVR 270? It looks really good.

Subject: RE: Show your best work

This is simply great, Laurence - saw it before when you posted it, still think it is awesome. I know it can be har to work with kids some times :)

/Ulf

I know it can be hard to work with kids sometimes :)

Yes it can. Here are some out-takes from that shoot done as "bloopers": ;-)

http://vimeo.com/6850389

A couple of mine from a while back. Dying to edit some new stuff but submerged in getting stock footage online for the foreseeable future.





More on my Bubble Vision YouTube channel.

This is a great thread, I really enjoyed seeing everyone's work. Nick, your stuff is off the chain.

Tough act to follow, but here is something short and goofy we made, hopefully it will be an occasionally updated series.

http://www.conchsaladtv.com/great-conch-race/

kairosmatt

edit: couldn't embed the video, but there's the page it is found on.

@Nick Hope,

Stunning footage. How deep? What camera/housing/lights? Did you do any color correction or is this right out of the camera? Very nice nudis.

Kimberly

Okay after seeing Nick's work I wouldn't say that my contribution is stellar, but the "talent" in this video is certainly top notch : )

http://vimeo.com/17987364

Thanks Kimberley. The footage in those videos varies from the surface down to around 40m. Most of it would be around 5-20m I guess.

Camera was the Sony HVR-Z1P HDV camera in a Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing with Light & Motion Elite halogen lights, but most of my daytime wide-angle footage is with available light. The wide angle footage was shot with the 80-degree port. I also used the flip macro for some shots with that port. Macro was with the flat port and (mostly) a Century +3.5 diopter screwed to the camera.

The vast majority of the footage is not colour-corrected. Typically during daytime available-light shooting I have the UR-PRO blue-water flip filter in place and do regular manual white balancing off the palm of my hand. This gives a nice result. I flip the filter out when shooting with lights.

Hi Laurence,

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes - was shot with the S270.

BTW .. your "bloopers" video is private - cannot see it without a password.

Tom

Love the thread liquid, really enjoyed looking at a lot of the other members work, ya'll are awesome!

There's some stuff on my main site that isn't on my Vimeo channel but it's the easiest place to bounce around some vids I've done.

Ray aka Muttley's Vimeo Channel

- Ray
Underground Planet

I made this of my buddy's band when they changed their name from Anonymous to Big Something at a big party they throw every year. They revealed their new name in a pretty unique manner and released their new album during this set.


You can check out my other stuff at that youtube channel... it definitely doesn't compare to the quality of what's on here but it is my best. I'm here to get better, and listening to a lot of the talent around here is going to do it I can already tell.

This is a little ruff around the edges but...... It's at Keystone, Colorado with two kids tearing up the mountain.

http://www.vimeo.com/18212841

....really enjoyed looking at a lot of the other members work, ya'll are awesome!

I've always appreciated your work Ray but if you're gonna live in Texas you gotta learn to spell y'all.

Nick,

We see a lot of Light & Motion on the boat. Not sure what my next housing will be, but I've already picked out my next set of lights! Now I must justify the cost, but cannot make that leap given my old lights still work.

No manual adjustments with my current housing : ( I start diving again in about two weeks so lots of experimenting ahead to find a good "one size fits most" setting. My white balancing consists of trying to find something white and black in each clip and tweaking the color in Vegas to make those colors appear correct. Or if I can't find white or black, then I mess with it until a known color appears right. Sometimes I don't need correction but most of the time I have too much or too little red on account of the filter/no filter.

Benson the turtle was shot from about 40 feet down to about 80 feet and the filter was on.

Cheers,

Kimberly

Dang it Randy, you're right, I should be ashamed. I'm a Yankee transplant man, moved to Austin from Chicago when I was 19, don't know what else to tell ya. What's that saying? "American by birth, Texan by choice"? I think that's it. Anyway, to make matters even worse I actually do a bunch of editing for a country site that's called "Y'all Wire" so I really have no excuse.

*bows head in shame*

- Ray
Underground Planet

Beautiful. Pelagics are irresistible.

Hoping to get up the Andaman Islands way maybe sometime early next year, probably out of Phuket. Won't be taking the cameras underwater tho - spoils the dive :-)

A few months ago an Indian charity approached me to shoot an annual event because their "regular" videographer was unavailable. I had just a few days' notice. The event included foot races, dancing, and a potpourri of other cultural items -- lots of activity. This is not my profession, and since I'm just a one man band, I shot what I possibly could and edited it with an opening montage of the Indian children who are the beneficiaries. I don't know if this is my best video, but it's certainly my first publicly available one, thanks to the charity who posted it online.

Shot on a Canon XH-A1 and edited entirely in Vegas with very modest grading in Magic Bullet. The video portion starts at ~2:00 if you want to skip the montage (not my pictures).



-Steve

I suspect nothing I've ever done qualifies as "best work", but since you express an interest in manipulating time, these snippets are probably appropriate.

At least, it explains where I've been spending all my time in the last year.



or this video of the power infrastructure that supports the server farm.



or this video that shows some of the obstacles that had to be overcome to make it happen.

Steve -- really nice. Well done. Catches that joyful energy that is India today.
Rah-on, Rahman.

I used that music once too.

India

>>At least, it explains where I've been spending all my time in the last year.

Wow. 6 months? .. Were these lots of stills done on a timer? Sharp looking!

This particular view was from a Canon G5 that was controlled by a software program, GB Timelapse. I imported them as an image sequence and used MXF 50 mbps as an intermediate since I had to make a few passes in Vegas to get them short enough. I'd like them to be sharper, but if I go back to the original stills, the focus was not on the "subject" in every case.

Actually, the two minute 50mbps MXF version of it looks very good. Even after rendering a few times.