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


Saturday, September 26, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is up in Flames

I'm happy to offer this clip for you to use, but can't take 100% of the credit for it's creation.  What I mean by that, is this was created by using a free effects preset for After Effects by the amazing people over at RocketStock. They have a pretty awesome "freebie" (I like to consider it outreach) area where they offer this preset. While I did create the "solid" the effect was applied to, and  I manipulated and altered the flames to my liking, their free preset did a lot of the heavy lifting. So if you get a chance after downloading this, go check out RocketStock and see what they are all about, they deserve the traffic.

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 clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!


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This video was created using Adobe After Effects and Rocket Stock's Fire Effect Preset

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!

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


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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 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!

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


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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!

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


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


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.

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


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


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