Showing posts with label morning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morning. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip Walks into my Parlour

I've spend a couple of mornings these past few weeks in a small wooded/park area, with the few minutes I have in-between dropping my kids off at daycare and starting my full time job, challenging myself to some high-speed macro shooting with my FS700 and Sigma 24mm Macro lens.  My goal was to get clips of some male mosquitoes (since they are abundant here and they don't bite) flying around dreamily in slow motion. I usually walk away without any usable footage but a game plan for something new to try the next day.   The razor-thin depth of field when shooting macro made following around a very small bug, that flies VERY fast, quite a feat.  I took a break from chasing them around when I noticed this spider in a web lit very well by the rising sun.  Amazingly, in between hitting record and the camera actually beginning the record, one of the mosquitoes flew into the web!!!  It was an incredible thing to catch, considering I was already set up to shoot/expose at 240fps.  I was also channeling my inner J.J. Abrams with that lens flare popping into the shot.  Hope you can use it!!!

Fun side project: In your NLE, take the video clip and speed it up 10x to see the real speed in which this whole thing happened.


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Free Royalty Free Footage of a mosquito caught in a spiderweb being eaten


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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700 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


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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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700