Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Digs Deep

I've wanted to shoot this clip for a long time, but didn't really know a good way to capture it.  I tried mounting the FS700 directly onto my snow shovel, but I could not keep it fastened safely and scoop/throw at the same time.  Usually, I catch most of my clips unprepared, so my aspirations for getting this fell to the wayside early.  It just so happened that I was reading an article on macro photography when I realized that I didn't need MY snow shovel (you know, the one I ACTUALLY use to clear the snow), just A snow shovel.  I immediately thought of my kid's tiny red shovel that they would play with when I go out.  I was able to hold this shovel underneath and keep both it and the camera steady while I scooped and tossed.  Since I was using a wide and macro lens, I was able to fill the frame with what looks like a relatively normal sized shovel.  A happy byproduct is that the snowflakes look crisp and large this close to the camera.  I also was not counting on the force and energy that the snow displayed when it was tossed.  I love how the entire chunk is flung from the shovel before it breaks up.

I wanted this clip to be a companion piece to my lawnmower and leaf raking videos.  To finish out the series I need a springtime themed POV shot.  Feel free to offer your suggestions in the comment section below or on our Facebook page.

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 a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens with a Metabones EF to NEX Speedboster 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, September 15, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Calm, but Under Pressue

Here is another time lapse I was able to capture while I was in the Adirondack mountains. This was the beginning of what looked like a beautiful morning. Calm waters, wispy clouds, nice sunrise. You see though, that the water quickly changes as the wind picks up. The clouds come in, the sky darkens and before you know it ... torrential rain lasting a good part of the day.  I had to cut my capture short, fearing that the weather might get the best of my naked DSLR.

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

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Inches Along

My raindrop clip was so popular, when I saw a downpour outside, I immediately ran to get my camera to see what I could capture with the 180mm Macro.  Immediately I saw this guy cruising across the walkway.  I was able to place my camera on the ground just under my awning and get a somewhat ground level view.  The falling drops in super slow motion make this clip seem like the worm is navigating a war zone.  If you notice, at 240fps he is still moving quite quick.  If you have the time, try speeding this clip up in your editor by 10x to see how fast it was really going.

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


Thursday, April 2, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Never the Same

This is probably the last remnant of the Northern Hemisphere's winter snowfall season.  This was taken very late at night, late March.  I was getting the house set up for my newly 5 year old's birthday party the next morning when I looked outside to see HUGE snowflakes falling from the sky.  An inch or so already on the ground, I thought it would be another good test for my 180mm macro lens.  Since it was so late and I knew I was going macro, I used my trusty R-300 ring light as a source.  It worked out well, since the very white snow is a natural bounce.  I panned an area of our backyard picnic table searching for a good flake since it was the same height as where the camera was on the tripod, so I could get pretty close.  The ring light hit this one icy flake in particular and the peaking on my camera (which is used to help focus) went crazy.  What a perfect snowflake!  I tried a couple of different speeds, but went with the normal real time in the end.  The depth of field is so razor thin, you really can't see how hard it is snowing, and the slow motion produced almost a still image.  At it's current speed, you can also see how fast the flakes were falling due to their enormous size and of course weight.  As with the computer screen in my last post, a lot of close up snowflake shots are now done digitally, so I though a real life one would be a good option for those of you in need of something like this.  Hope you can use 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


Friday, December 19, 2014

1 Free Stock Footage Clip is Electrifying

I have finally released a clip that I had been hoping to get since I started this blog.  Lightning.  Am I happy with it?  Kind of.

This was shot at 240 frames per second during a pretty intense lightning storm.  What was nice is that the high speed camera was able to catch bolts that were originally too quick to see with the naked eye.  At that frame rate and shutter speed though, I was getting some severe "partial flash sync".   I've done what I can to correct that issue, by partially removing frames and also stacking concurrent ones and using some creative blending techniques to rebuilt the actual lighting condition.  It was a labor of love.  Many times when I run into a technical issue like this, I take the time to learn from my mistakes correct the initial error in post, and create a game-plan on how to not let something like this happen again.   As of right now though, I'm honestly not sure what I would do differently if another storm were to present itself.  I was happy enough with the end result to release it, considering I do not have any lighting clips up yet.  Hopefully in the future I can get you something better.

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A brief still of a longer and available stock footage clip of a lightning storm.


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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700 and the Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens with a Metabones EF to NEX Speedboster Adapter


Thursday, October 30, 2014

1 Free Stock Footage Clip Is Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome

One of my favorite things about autumn is the drastic weather patterns that hit us here in the Northeast US.  I was lucky enough to catch this front that moved in that offered a lot of contrast.  To me the different types of clouds present, layered, and varying in speed, make the whole clip something MORE that just a time lapse.  I've chosen to label this "Epic Clouds",  I hope you see why and I hope you can find a good use for it.

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various types of clouds are present in this completely free to use stock video clip


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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700 and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens


Monday, October 13, 2014

1 Free Stock Footage Comes Again Another Day

I managed to make the best of a rainy morning the other day.  Thanks to a overhang off of my house, I was able to get the camera down to a patch of dry ground to catch this low profile shot.  Having the shallow depth of field helped isolate/highlight a strip of walkway.  To me, watching the droplets this slow, almost makes the rain enjoyable.  Perfectly paired with a morning cup of coffee.

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Monday, February 17, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip Lets it Snow

I've been waiting a while for a day when the snow was falling just right.  We've gotten a lot of heavy sleety and misty powdery conditions, but nothing this "flaky".  Unlike a lot of stock snow clips you may find out there, this is 100% real, live-action weather.  Snow falling has been the most requested shot lately, so I am happy to deliver something somewhat usable.  This may be the best I can get.

I shot it with a slightly small depth of field and at 240 fps on the FS700.  The video nerd in me loves seeing the flakes that float through mostly in focus. You should also be able to do a nice overlay/screen effect using this on your existing footage to give it a nice "wintery" treatment.  As the clip is now, it's falling peacefully and almost picturesque.  Feel free to speed it up 10x if you are going for a more snowstorm type atmosphere.


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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Thursday, December 26, 2013

1 Stock Footage Clips Driving is Flaky

Risked taking the camera outside today in the snow to quickly capture this shot during my lunch break.  I've been wanting to compile a good selection of "traffic condition" clips for people needing them for news reports.  I love the close focus on the snowflakes.  This also allows a little bit of anonymity in the background. Hope you have a use for it!

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A still image from a stock video clip showing footage of cars driving in the winter.




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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

1 Clip is a Little Foggy

This clip was taken early in the morning in a very mountainous area of New York State.  I was actually visiting my extended family, not really looking to get any footage.  The area was beautiful and I only had one 16GB memory card on me that had the Magic Lantern Firmware.  This meant that I only could come home with one time lapse (lesson learned!).  This was, I think my 6th attempt at something.  The previous day, I had captured a couple of cloud formations that I thought were nice.  Each time I deleted the contents of the card to capture something "better".  The next morning I woke to the mountainside covered in fog.  So ... I deleted the previous day's time lapse and took a risk.  While I feel it turned out great considering it was shot off of the front porch of my grandmother-in-law's house, I do feel the deep focal length hurt the shot a bit.  The shot was composed between two foreground pine trees on each side of the lens, a home across the street below and power lines in the foreground above.  This far in, it created much more motion that I had hoped for in the shot considering how the background is not established for long.

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Fog creeps over some trees on the side of a mountain

 
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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


Sunday, June 9, 2013

1 Clip is Raining Supreme

One of the amazing things about slow motion footage is how beautifully chaotic some of the simplest things are. I caught this during a rainstorm the other day and love the razor thin depth of field which allowed me to focus on a part of one leaf.  It was raining pretty hard, but you are able to only see the select few drops that hit this particular leaf.  You are seeing the rain fall at 240p played back at 30 frames per second.

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Macro focus on a single leaf during a rain storm



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Monday, December 3, 2012

1 HD Clip has a Silver Lining

Came across a beautifully silver sky the other day.  The sun was coming through a patch of clouds to the right of this time lapse, projecting it's rays onto some of the others.  I was quite pleased with this one.  One of the challenges I gave to myself recently was to learn as much as I could about creating time lapse videos of clouds.  You cannot imagine the wild variables you run into in this environment.  I have learned a lot, and I hope some of you may be able to benefit from it.  Hope this helps!

As you may know, recently I am pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip through Archive.org.  You have the option of downloading a PhotoJPEG, H.264 or WMV file. I'd also like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

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clouds displaying their silver lining



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

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

1 Clip is Clouded more than it is Cloudy

There were some wonderful clouds moving through the sky the other day and I thought I would try something a little different.  It didn't work out that great, and it turns out the clouds were moving much faster than I had anticipated.  This is what the final product ended up being, and actually I am suprised at how nice it looks.  It definitely is more abstract, but may make a nice background for someone or overlay.

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 Abstract out of focus clouds move in the background with a cool blue hue time lapse

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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, January 20, 2012

1 Clip Wipes

Took advantage of one of the "mild" days this winter and was able to record some of my drive in to work.  A bonus with this clip that you sometimes don't get is the nat. sound.  Be sure to keep your speakers on when previewing.
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Rain drops fall on a car windshield while the wipers push them away







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