Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Blows

I had much different expectations when I tried to capture this clip.  Working again with my macro lens and it's razor thin and shallow depth of field, it became very obvious that I would need an extremely controlled environment in order to capture what I originally wanted.  What is here, while not what I planned, is the organized chaos you find in a lot of projects that wish to depict kind of "dream-like" emotions.

Honestly, I can't take credit for this one.  None of the stuff here was intentional.  The shifting depth of field wasn't due to camera work, but from the movement of the dandelion while it was being blown and held.  The shot also looks handheld, but it is on a tripod.  I discounted it the minute it wrote to the the SD card and didn't even look at it for a while after, just moved on to the next idea.  When things slowed down and I had a chance to sit down, I was very pleased at what I found.  Everything is working against itself, and you know what, it works! Hope you can use it!

You are welcome to use it in your projects you are working on, or keep it in your clip library for future work.The only thing you cannot do is turn around and offer it AS stock footage. Have fun with it!

You can preview and download the video file by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!


extreme close up of a dandelion and it's seeds, the background is heavily out of focus


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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700 and the Sigma 180mm F2.8 EX APO DG HSM OS Macro with a Metabones EF to NEX Speedboster Adapter


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

2 Free Stock Footage Clips are Narcissus-tic

Spring is finally here and with it come the beautiful blooming flowers.  I have a wealth of these daffodils (narcissus) in my backyard and have always wanted to try capturing this bulb blooming through a time lapse.  I initially set up my camera outside at a group of daffodils that looked ready to open.  The intervalometer on my T2i took pictures every 25 seconds for 6 hours without the petals opening at all.  With no more sunlight, I packed up and waited until the next day.  I did take the image files and compile a short preview and what I saw was the flowers moving around so much due to outside wind that I knew I wasn't going to get a descent looking image if they were to bloom, so the next morning I took out a pot and some potting soil and moved one of bulbs inside.  I set up a makeshift studio on my tool bench with a white foam core background.  I set the camera to take a picture every 25 seconds again and left it to work.  Coming back I had noticed that the stem had slowly moved the flower closer to my light source and slightly out of frame.  The flower did not open yet, so I braced the stem just out of frame with a thick copper wire and then set the intervalometer to take a picture once every minute (hey, if it is going to take a while, might as well take a while).  A let the camera go for a day and a half and came back to a full SD card and a fully bloomed flower.  I had my fingers crossed when previewing the images and luckily it bloomed before I ran out of space. YAY!

Since the original RAW image is quite large, I was able to create two video files for you.  The close up is an real size 1:1 crop of the larger image and the wide is a scaled (resized) image to fit into the HD frame.  What is nice is these files should be timed in sync so when you lay them together on a timeline you could seamlessly cut between the two.

So not bad for my first experience with capturing growing plants.  I'll eventually like to get some grass and vegetables, but as for now, this is pretty nice.  Hope they help and hope you can use them!

You can preview and download the clips by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!




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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i


Wednesday, May 9, 2012

2 Clips are Dandy


Shot these 2 clips while I was on a walk the other day.  The entire walk, I didn't see much that sparked my interest, and these buggers were growing about 10 feet away from where my car was parked.  I really hate these weeds, but nothing signifies spring like dandelions.

You can preview and download the clips by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

A dandelion fully bloomed with seeds sits among the grass genly moving in the windMother nature is attacking this dandelion with harsh gusts of wind, trying to get her to move her seeds




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These videos were shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Macro Lens


Monday, September 12, 2011

7 Clips are a Little More Scenic

Hey everybody.

I'm getting closer to getting in a routine where I can update this blog at a steadier pace. My goal would be 4-5 clips per week.

Here is some footage I shot in the early morning at a body of water near where I live.  Enjoy!

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Birds circle old dock posts on a misty morning at the bayanother angle of Birds circle old dock posts on a misty morning at the bayOld dock posts and reeds mingle on a nice quiet misty morningold dock posts sit in the calm bay watersa sleeping bee slowly wakes up in the morning suna voyeuristic look through some reeds at seagulls perched on some old dock postsdutch angle of a boat dock seen through some reeds


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These videos were shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens, and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens