Arctic Surfing Video
A friend posted this breathtaking video shot – yet you guessed it – on Canon 5D Mark II. It was directed by Yassine Ouhilal.
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STREETFEST is back
This Saturday 3rd October I have the pleasure to shoot video for STREETFEST again. After my last video shot on HV30 turned out fairly ok I’ve this time decided to go to town. I’m going to use three cameras.
1) Canon 400D positioned above the crowd and hooked up to my laptop to produce time lapse of the entire event.
2) Canon HV30 handheald to produce a natural home video look.
3) Canon 5D Mark II for all the fine footage.
Well, at least this is what the plan is. Let’s see how much of it actually works out. Watch this space!
Time lapse experiment
One Saturday morning I wanted to tidy up the back of my house a bit and film myself working and create a time lapse . Instead of shooting video I wanted to take a sequence of photos over a course of couple of hours in equal intervals. I run a simple app through my 5D Mk2, put it together and this is the result.
Notes:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 28-105mm
DSLR Remote Pro (Windows only) allows you to fully control your camera from a PC over USB cable
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Video Compressor: H.264
Frame rate: 24fps
F number: 4
ISO was set to 200 and no auto light setting. And since the weather was quite tricky that day you can see how dynamic the light was.
Next time I would set up aspect ratio of the stills to mach some video size convention as they ended up being 1680×1080. I didn’t want to crop anything afterward as I was quite happy with the composition based on three even horizontal stripes.
The script triggered the shutter every 1.8 seconds, took 4000 photos in 120 minutes.
Image setting: JPEG small/fine.
My 5D2 has a battery grip with 2 LP-E6’s fully charged. At the end of the process the battery level was at 75% – not bad. However, I had preview set to OFF and nothing showing in the display (hit INFO. button twice on your camera). Images can be saved to both PC Hard Drive or/and the camera memory card. In my case I was not able to set it to camera only application error.
Music: Kusanagi – Electro Dori.
