Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip of My Slowest Time Lapse Yet.

I've been experimenting a little more with time lapses and my intervalometer. I've been really interested in the correlation between interval and focal length. Most of my time lapses have been around 1-second intervals at around a 38mm focal length (I'm factoring in the 1.6 crop factor on the Canon I normally use). This one was done at roughly a 24mm focal length on a full frame camera at 2-second intervals.  I was amazed at how much slower the time was passing on screen.  I guess thought that the changes I made would somehow cancel each other out.  I'd like to get more accurate in reading a situation as to what settings to use to achieve the speed and look I want.  Up until then, I guess I'll have to make available to you all everything that is fit to publish.

You are welcome to use this video 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!




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This video was shot using a Sony A7SII and a Canon EF 24-105mm L Lens with a Commlite EF to E-Mount Adapter


Saturday, January 30, 2016

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip to Make up for Me Being Flaky


Happy New Year everyone!  It has been a while since I last posted. The holidays were busy, and the new year started up the same, but I am happy to have found time to upload another clip. During the past 2 months, I've tried to capture a bunch of things, and most of them didn't work out to my liking.  That is part of the reason why you haven't seen too much. I've decided to go simple and grabbed something that compliments one of my most popular offerings. This time though, the snow is falling in real time and the camera has been pointed up so the flakes come down toward the lens.  This shot is 100% practical, so there is no pre-comped matte or alpha channel. You shouldn't have many issues overlaying onto another clip though using some layer blending options in your editor. Hope you like it and I hope it helps!

You are welcome to use this video 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!




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This video was shot using the Sony NEX-FS700 and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens with a Metabones EF to NEX Speedboster Adapter


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip for the Ladies

Very recently, my backyard became the "go to" place for ladybugs.  It turns out that it is where they decided to have their mating sessions, so the whole place was crawling with them.  On the day I noticed, it was also extremely windy, so the opportunities to capture some macro shots were limited, mostly because of the amazingly thin depth of field I had with my Sigma 180mm lens.  I DID manage to capture the clip I've included below.  I was able to follow it up this dying stalk of grass for a while, until the angle of my tilt, drew it out of focal range.  At that point I decided to let it leave the frame instead of racking the focus and possibly ruining the movement. It is amazing how intricate these creatures are.  I love making the macro world a little larger.

You are welcome to use this video 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!




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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


Friday, August 28, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Not a Bad Hazing

Had a beautiful yet hazy morning in the Adirondacks when I was able to capture this time lapse.  Although the haze on the mountain range wasn't ideal, there was a lot to appreciate in this scene.  I like the way the lower clouds move over the mountains in the right corner of the screen.  The sun was coming up off camera left and casting some pretty cool rays on the clouds as well. The clouds differing intensities, from fluffy white, to ominous grey was pretty neat, and the different direction the fog on the water traveled from the atmosphere was nice.

You are welcome to use this video 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!

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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens

Friday, August 7, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Not Focused on Streaming

I was watching an outdoors program on television and was amazed at how often they cut to a shot like the one I have available below. Most of the time it was used when the show was thanking a sponsor, so they'd CG the logo in the center of the clip. Having a nice background like this could be helpful in your projects. Hopefully you'll find a good place for this footage in your own works. Hope it helps!

You are welcome to use this video 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!

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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


Saturday, June 13, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Back to Nature

I had a beautiful morning the other day.  The tree these leaves were on caught my eye because of how transparent they became when backlit by the sun.  Doing this for almost 4 years now, I've really started to appreciate how intricate nature is, so much more now that I have this telephoto macro lens.  The veins in this leaf are to me, are so perfect and a wonderful symbol of life in general.  The tiny specs of dust and cottonwood seeds floating around in the background, along with the soft bokeh of the sunlight passing through a neighboring tree make me feel at peace.  This would be a perfect clip for visual poetry or a meditative collection.

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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


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


Thursday, April 30, 2015

2 Free Stock Footage Clips Are Over the Hill

Ever since I first tried my macro lens, I knew I wanted to try getting a shot like this. I happened to notice a few ant colonies popping between up my backyard patio stones, saw the sun was hitting them perfectly, ran and got my camera and viola!

You can see the ants are busy carrying sand out of the hill, they must still be in the early building stages. The clips are from 2 separate hills. The lens crates a razor thin depth of field. From some of the shots I took, ants would turn sideways, and I couldn't get their entire body in focus. I am thankful for the FS700's "End Trigger" ability which allows me to capture the footage at 240p AFTER I've seen the action. I waited around for these buggers to hang out in the "sweet spot" for long enough that I felt like it could be a usable clip. If you look closely in the background of both clips, you can see that there is actually a lot of commotion, the focus drops off so quickly though that it is tough to focus on all of it.

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

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




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These videos were 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!

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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i


Monday, February 9, 2015

1 Free Stock Footage Clip is Purr-fect

I happened to walk by my little tortoiseshell cat "Lady" the other day on my way to grab a shot of the snow falling outside.  She was laying on the top of an armchair near a window in a very calm mood.  Since I knew she wasn't going anywhere for a while, and I was curious as to how close my Sigma 180mm lens could get to her, I set up my camera and was able to capture this.  Shooting this wide open at a 2.0 and at a fixed 180mm, the depth of field is quite thin but thankfully Lady stayed still long enough to keep the pupil in focus for a usable period of time.  Hope you like it!

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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


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

1 Free Stock Footage Clip Forgot to Fall

Well it has been a while hasn't it?

I apologize for the larger than normal gap between postings.  Life has thrown me in a few directions this past month, but it is stabilizing, so I hope to get back to a more regular posting schedule.  Winter is also a tough time to shoot. Since I have no indoor studio space to really occupy, I have to allot a good amount of time of setup and take-down to do any "inside work" which limits the chances I have to do so.  Outside, I need to make sure the weather works with me.  It has been very cold these past couple of weeks, and when it isn't it is just grey and ugly around here (not something I enjoy shooting).

This clip here is something I HAVE been interested in doing for a while and managed to find a nice day to go out and capture it.  It is very simple, but can say a lot when used in the proper context.  I love shots like this, and I hope you can find a good use for it.

I've come to a realization recently that while I LOVE shooting things I like, I lack a good amount of actual "generic" footage.  Sometime hopefully soon I plan on doing a lot more with actual "stock" type shots to help people who need more generic clips, so stay tuned.  When that happens, I'll probably poll all of the "friends" that I have on the Facebook page to see what exactly the site is missing, so if you haven't followed yet, please do so.  You can find a subscribe button in the column on the right hand side of the site.

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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


Friday, October 24, 2014

1 Free Stock Footaqe Clip Is Very Deer to Me

I was out shooting the other morning while there was a nice fog over the area.  I initially had my lens pointed at a bush branch that was to my right, getting really nothing in particular (dew-like folliage shot).  This guy was a tiny bit curious and actually walked across the field to get a closer look.  I slowly panned my camera to meet him.  As you can see he is very cautious, but also curious.  I didn't have that long of a lens on me at the time, so I'd say he got about 15-20 feet away from me.  I think the bush helped mask me a bit.  He got spooked and  ran away when I tried to unlock the tilt on my tripod in an attempt to center him up a bit more and decrease the headroom.  All in all, a pretty nice morning.  Hopefully this clip will work well with my other deer footage too.

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A clear picture of a young 4-point buck staring into the camera.



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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700


Tuesday, July 1, 2014

2 Free Stock Footage Clips are Feeling Sluggish

The idea for these next two shots came up when a user in a Facebook group I am a part of called "Share Footage" requested a stock shot of a slug.

I had in my head already an plan to do a time lapse of my garden at night, but I had been putting it off for some time.  I decided to put it off a little longer to scour my yard for slugs.  I see them every day... shouldn't be too hard to pop on out and get some good footage right?  Well they must have know I was coming.  After a few failed attempts, I ended up partially abandoning my search and instead set my camera up to do this night time lapse.  The first clip was shot close to midnight with just the lighting from my front porch.  The camera is shooting at 1 frame per second and there is a little bit of in camera gain applied to get a good exposure (The FS700 holds up pretty well huh?).  After about recording for 45 minutes I played back what I had gotten and what do you know?  A little tiny slug pops out from under the mulch and travels up part of a plant in the background.  I jumped up and readied my camera again ... I ran out to where the first shot was and searched the surrounding plants.  There he was, checking out his dinner situation.  I let the camera run for a while, but he quickly moved out of focus.  I re-positioned, but by that time he had settled in and was just hanging out, not doing too much.  So there you go, hopefully this is useful to you sometime down the road.  I had a great experience shooting it.  I feel like I will be back out there very soon.


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free royalty free footage of mulch
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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Tuesday, June 17, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip Bursts Your Bubble

Had some fun the other day with my kids' bubble gun.  I used what I had learned following around mosquitoes (which honestly I am still working on to hopefully have something usable to upload) and decided to try a slow motion tracking shot of a soap bubble.  It was quite frustrating, but with the very thin depth of field I was working with, I am happy to have something that is at least in focus most of the time.  The raw clip had my reflection in the middle, so with some creative matte work, feathering and blurring, I was successful in removing it.

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Free Royalty Free Footage of a blown bubble in slow motion with an out of focus background with heavy bokeh


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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700 and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens


Monday, April 21, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Seeing Stars

Usually twice a year, the family and I travel about 90 miles outside of the city to a very small town in a valley to visit my wife's grandmother.  It is a wonderful place free of things like cell signals, which force you to be more "connected" to the people and things around you.  I've brought my camera down ever since I have started this blog in order to get star time lapses (something I cannot do in the light polluted city limits).  Since we don't go that often, rarely do i have a clear sky to capture (this was the only other one I've been able to get).  This past weekend gave me the perfect opportunity though and I was excited to employ the A/C adapter for my camera that tested so well during the "rotting banana" time lapse.  I also came this time with a much more scientific/mathematical approach to shooting vs. my previous star time lapse.

Most notably, I was able to put into practice something called the "500 rule" which is a calculation that you can perform to figure out how long you can keep your shutter open before you start to capture "star trails" instead of stars.  The formula goes as follows: 500/ (lens focal length) = max. shutter duration in seconds.  I was using my Sigma 24mm f/1.8 lens on my Canon T2i.  The Rebel line of Canon cameras has a 1.6x crop factor that needed to be included as well.  So my calculation was a followed: 500/(24 times 1.6) = 13.  So I had the max time my shutter could be open (13 seconds), I ended up dialing it back 1 second for safety.  Since I was focusing to "infinity" the depth of field did not matter on the camera, so I was able to keep it wide open at f/1.8.  These two known values allowed me to then dial in my ISO to something that would allow me a good exposure.  I settled on 800.  So for those of you interested, this sequence was shot RAW at f/1.8, ISO 800 and a shutter speed of 12 seconds.  I set the intervalometer in my Magic Lantern hacked firmware to 16 seconds, allowing my camera 4 extra seconds to write the RAW file out of the buffer to the 32GB card.  1,464 images later (or 6.5 hours) and what you see below is what I can offer you.

I plan on going back to the RAW files and trying my hand at creating a star trail time lapse by gradually stacking the images.  This is obviously something that will take a while, so I wanted to initially post this video for people who might be able to find a good use for it.  The lights on the trees are actually from trains that pass through town.  I was amazed that the images picked the light from them up.


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens


Saturday, December 28, 2013

1 Stock Footage Clip Mist the Boat

This time lapse was definitely a labor of love, a test of patience and a possibly a fools errand all rolled in to one.  I actually shot this close to 5 months ago while I was camping with the family in the Adirondack Mountains.  I had a beautiful scene framed, with the clouds, water and mist all moving along different planes, but the lake wasn't as isolated as this final product makes it out to be.  There were actually quite a few early morning adventurers out in kayaks during my capture.  When the time lapse was compiled when I got home, it looked like a group of dragonflies were darting around the screen the way their paddles kept popping up and down and how they seamlessly moved through the water.  I ended up individually re-touching 570 images using Photoshop's "Content-Aware Fill".  It worked out wonderfully thanks to the rolling mist over the water, which was consistently giving me motion.  That helped hide any inconsistencies the software created.

Since my trip was short, and this was really the only clip I could get while I was there, I was determined to make it work. Hope you can use it for something!!!


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A still image of a stock video clip that shows footage of a lake in the morning with mist on the water


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens


Saturday, November 30, 2013

4 Stock Footage Clips are Gull-ible

While I was at the lake getting some great shots of the water, I managed to get pretty close to some seagulls who were hanging out.  They were mostly riding the wind close to shore, looking for food.  The wind was so heavy, they really didn't need to flap their wings that much.  The slow motion really helps capture the moment.

I've pretty much uploaded these clips untouched (not graded).  I tried to better expose the bird, and lost a lot of detail in the sky ... when I tried to level out the sky, it darkened the gull.  I decided to leave it up to you and your needs for this clip.  Touch it up how you see fit.

Once again I've included some different shots to hopefully help in editing.

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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700

Sunday, November 24, 2013

3 Stock Footage Clips Break and Crash

Had a great time out by the edge of Lake Ontairo during an especially brutal storm was passing over.  The waves were quite impressive as they hit the pier.  I also got to test the durability of my FS700 when an extremely large wave hit the stone wall and covered me and my equipment.

Once again I've included some different shots to hopefully help in editing.

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

2 Stock Footage Clips to Fawn Over

I had set a goal for myself to get some footage of turkeys before the US holiday Thanksgiving comes around at the end of the month.  I've been heading out to spots where they have been spotted in my area early in the morning before I had to be in to work.  I unfortunately have not had much luck, but I did have a chance to hang out with these guys for a little bit right after sunup. 

The second tracking shot of the doe with her little ones were actually done from my car.  I was on an access road at a local park and saw these guys off in the distance.  I am impressed with this shot, just because it was at 200mm out the window of my car while I was moving in reverse down the street.  They watched me while I parked and got out my tripod, and the tracking shot of the doe was done again at 200mm while she was checking me out.  I'm happy that I was able to come and go without spooking them too much. 


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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

1 Stock Footage Clip Rises in the East

I haven't quite gotten down the right method to capturing sunrises (tips and suggestions welcome). Obviously the dynamic range during one is absolutely huge and I've miscalculated a few times how much I needed to stop down, or how much ND to add.  Just like getting cloud time lapses, I also needed to become familiar with the correct interval between frames in order to establish a somewhat rapid yet visually natural pace.  I had a request a while back for a sunrise clip, so I thought I would upload one, but don't think you have seen the last ... or the best from me yet.

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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700