Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2015

2 Completely Free Stock Footage Clips for Every Fiber of Your Being

I've made 2 more clips using the optical fibers I had on hand.  The lamp passes a spectrum of color through the filament, so you get a pulsing wash of color.  If you are interested in a more sterile clip, I had success in first reducing the saturation completely, and then adding a light sterile blue hue to it.  The result is a pulsing "tech" blue light that you would normally attribute to something IT or computer related.

The first clip is a straight on shot from the side, of the filaments sticking out of the lamp.  This would work great as a background for text or during an open or credit roll.  The second is a shot from the top down, out of focus to enhance the bokeh.  This would be helpful as either a background or a slightly opaque overlay.

I am very interested to see what you can do with these.

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



Thursday, May 28, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Needs Fiber

I found a fiber optic filament filament lamps at a thrift store and we have been using it as my daughter's night light.  I had originally bought it to get a few stock footage clips from it.  The one here will be the first of a few.  I want some others to be slightly more generic so people can use it in their projects about technology.  If you follow me regularly, you know that I love using negative space and I think for stock purposes it is very valuable.  Many times stock footage is very helpful as place-cards and/or backgrounds for more information.  I've kept the rainbow coloring, but you are obviously welcome to change it based on your needs.  I had luck making a default "fiber optic blue" by de-saturating the clip and then adding color back using a "hue" effect in premiere.

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, March 27, 2015

1 Free Stock Footage Clip Is Following Protocol

Here is one of your more "typical" stock footage shots.  A lot of them are created digitally in a program like after effects, which is nice because you are able to produce a smooth clean look.  This shot is completely practical, taken from a real LCD monitor, and I learned quite a bit from shooting it.  Using my 180mm macro lens, I was able to get quite close to the screen (as you can obviously see).  What you see here is the red, blue, and green subpixels that make up each pixel in this LCD screen.  The subpixels are able to be addressed separately and help with things like font smoothing when viewed with the human eye.  I found this fascinating, because originally I thought it was an lens byproduct from poor focus called "Chromatic Aberration".  Seeing the red, green, blue pattern though, 2 things are clear.  This IS a pretty cool example of subpixeling, and this lens kicks some butt!

I've given a few address options in the clip.  You'll get the typical "http://www.", the "https://www", the "ftp://" and the "www.".    It wasn't until uploading the file that I realized I should have also included "192.169.1." into this group as well.  Sorry for that.


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A macro focused close up an lcd monitor with red, green and blue subpixels being displayed.  The screen displays the beginning of a web address in a computer browser.


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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, September 16, 2014

4 Free Stock Footage Clips Are Just My Type

I've been really lucky lately to have the opportunities to cross a lot of shots I've been meaning to get off of my list.  These next 4 (and probably more in the future) are the result of an excellent garage sale find.  With the lenses I have available to me, I was able to get some pretty nice somewhat closeup shots of this typewriter's typebars.  I had to get these with my Canon 24-105mm (non-macro).  The 24mm Sigma I have, that would allow macro focusing, was too wide when brought in close to the machine.  I'd definitely like to revisit this when I can get my hands on a longer macro lens.  The ribbon on the machine was also misaligned, so I wasn't able to get any visible type on paper.  I'm looking forward to tinkering with it to see if it is an easy fix. I had hoped to get some shots of the machine typing "The End" and "Once Upon a Time".  I'd also like to take the carriage off and get a POV shot from the paper's perspective, but I think I'll need a longer macro lens for that as well.  So as it stands ... 4 for you now ... more for you later.  I shot this both in regular and slow motion.  I love the energy the regular motion typing has, but the POWER behind the slow motion shots really blew me away.  It's like every keystroke was a KO punch.  I do acknowledge that I blew it with the audio for the real time shot.  The camera mic wasn't even close to being hooked up or near me when I started doing this.  I've been so used to no audio anyway when doing all of the slow mo work that I just completely overlooked it.

Once again I've included some different angles/options to hopefully help in editing.

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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700

Monday, October 21, 2013

1 Clip is Kind and Rewinds

I managed to grab this clip while I was doing the 8mm film digitizing mentioned in my previous post.  Once again, while the actual content of the film footage was private, I thought that some rewind media might come in handy to people making montages or for any video that is in need of some sort of artistic momentum, distraction or interruption. I'd  be very interested to see what you all use this for.  Feel free to share your work below in the comment section, on our Facebook page, through Twitter or any other way you display your projects.


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Friday, October 18, 2013

1 Clip Follows the Leader

I've been working on some digitizing projects lately and trying my hand at converting old 8mm film reels.  While most of the content is personal, I have managed to put together a couple of selections of "film noise" you can overlay in to your own projects.  If you watch the preview clip, you will notice that there are a few different types of film stocks at different ages, so the color temperature and style of film will vary slightly.  Hopefully it can help some of you out with your aesthetic needs.


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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Tuesday, July 23, 2013

1 Free Stock Footage Clip is Driving Hard

Got this great macro shot when I unexpectedly had one of my computer hard drives quit on me.  It would try to spin up but it couldn't read anything.  I decided to open it up and capture it before I disposed of it.  What I love most about this shot is the fact that I lit it using a "flash" app on my Google Nexus 7 which I normally use as a preview monitor with the DSLR controller app.

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A macro image of the internal disk in a computer hard drive



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


Friday, March 23, 2012

3 Clips Turn The Tables

Got my hands on a turntable the other day and wanted to offer up a few shots.  You can get a loopable background of the vinyl spinning, a close up of the needle on the disc, and a time lapse of an entire play through.  Personally I like the close-up background.  What is cool is you could apply a little blur effect and it could possibly double as an ultrasound.  HA!

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Close up of a spinning vinyl record.  Looks a little like an ultrasoundClose up of the needle of a record player with a spinning vinyl underneathwide shot of a record player.  A still from a video time lapse of the record playing through

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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

Sunday, March 18, 2012

1 Clip Needs To Focus

Had access to a camera with a remote control and thought that this clip would work well for some people.  I love the shallow depth of field the sigma lens gets me. 

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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, March 9, 2012

1 Clip Tries To Read And Write

I had an old external DVD writer that always failed when burning a disc.  I thought that I could finally get some good use out of it, and open it up.  What I didn't expect, was how tricky it is to get to the laser and actually have it on and trying to read something.  Well, for a macro shot, I think it turned out all right.

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

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

1 Clip is Working for a Living

Did an Industrial Night HDR (High Dynamic Range) Time Lapse shot the other day. What I love is I mistakenly balanced a night shot with daylight settings and got the orange tungsten glow you see here.  It made the smoke look like the building was on fire.  Neat litte look ... unintentionally. 

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an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image of a factory at night

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Friday, January 6, 2012

New year, New Things

Happy New Year everyone!  Hope 2012 is a good one for you!  I am working on organizing things here to better accommodate the 70+ clips that are here already.  Look in the coming days for a search function as well as better browsing.

Some of the hurdles and goals for 2012?  Check them out by clicking "read more".


Thursday, December 29, 2011

1 Clip Likes to Dish

Did this HDR Timelapse the other day.  Love the way I was able to catch the exposure under the dish while the sun was setting behind it.  One of the great benefits to HDR Photography.
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Satellite Dish Fair Use Public Domain Time Lapse HDR High Dynamic Range Setting Sun

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

This HDR image sequence was batch processed using Photomatix Pro and assembled using Adobe Production Premium CS5

Friday, November 4, 2011

3 Clips to keep you Technologically En-"light"-ened

I have 3 clips for you today, one more technical and two that feature light bulbs.  These types of stock video clips are becoming popular, since many news packages feature stories about energy/power efficiency, and light bulbs are at the forefront of that movement. In my opinion, the sound I got from these two bulbs is worth the download alone!

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electronic computer circuit board with green blinking LED lights royalty freetungsten light bulb close up royalty freeincandescent light bulb pulses on and off royalty free



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

Monday, October 17, 2011

4 Clips Crank it to Eleven

I thought I would try to balance out all of this nature stuff I have been posting lately with some more electronics.  I know I have a certain following now that produce some wonderful techno-centric VJ pieces, so I thought some of these would help.

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Cat 5 Network Cables glow in the back of a router, transmitting digital informationan old crt pc monitor glows and progressively refreshes, slightly out of focus in the background
Audio levels bound up and down gently touching and teasing the red LED peaksA cool blue LED glow of audio meters rhythmically pulse high and low

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

Thursday, September 29, 2011

3 Clips Let Me Project a Little

Hey All,

Shot this a little while ago. Love the look. Reminds me of J.J. Abrams most recent movie Super 8.

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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

Thursday, August 25, 2011

My First Few Clips (4 Included)

So here we are!  To get the ball rolling, I have selected a few clips that are a series I call "Meters".  These are shots of old modulators.  I have also included a digital clock looped time lapse I did that adds a little chaos to the counting.  Enjoy!

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High Definition Digital Clock face


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens