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Below the Escarpment
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16. Below the Escarpment
4 months ago
This film reveals the spectacularly rugged scenery of the Jamison Valley which sits below the western escarpment of the Blue Mountains.
Blue Mountains National Park is World Heritage listed and the film was made near Katoomba, a township located approximately 110 km west of Sydney. The Blue Mountains are famed for their sheer sandstone walls and for the almost impenetrable terrain and extremely dense rain forests and eucalypt forests that fill the valleys below the escarpment.
The film was captured in standard definition 16:9 aspect ratio PAL using a Sony DVD201E camera. It was post processed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The soundtrack is an excerpt from Steven Soderbergh’s version of the film “Solaris” - it was composed by Cliff Martinez.
Blue Mountains National Park is World Heritage listed and the film was made near Katoomba, a township located approximately 110 km west of Sydney. The Blue Mountains are famed for their sheer sandstone walls and for the almost impenetrable terrain and extremely dense rain forests and eucalypt forests that fill the valleys below the escarpment.
The film was captured in standard definition 16:9 aspect ratio PAL using a Sony DVD201E camera. It was post processed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The soundtrack is an excerpt from Steven Soderbergh’s version of the film “Solaris” - it was composed by Cliff Martinez.
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Love the photography and the well executed tilts. Miss some pans.
Great nature docu Arnold. Water shots work always inspiring. Why did you leave out the live sound of the streaming water? I don't hear the silence of that beatifull piece of nature. Great video. A 'like' :)
This was the first day out with my new tripod and head and so I was being careful about how much camera movement I used. Look forward to some more (including pans) soon.
I was sorely tempted to use the natural sound, but I'd had the Cliff Martinez music lined up for a while and was itching to use it. Thank you for watching, for your always constructive critique and for your encouragement :-)
Kindest regards,
Arnold
I like your videostyle Arnold. Greetz from the other side, Pierre.
Thank you for taking time to watch and for your kind remarks - which are even nicer with the mystique of a foreign language (to me at least).
Kindest regards,
Arnold
Love everything about this!
Thank you for watching!
You are very kind. I'm a sucker for flowing water ...
I'm hoping to get myself a much better camera soon and I'd like to go back and have another go, or more likely, try a variation along the same theme. The limited amount of light down there under the canopy of trees makes it very difficult to get good results.
This was one of those times when I had already decided on the piece of music that I was going to use. One of the software engineers that works for me suggested it and as soon as I heard I knew he was right.
Thank you for taking time out to watch and listen.
Kindest regards,
Arnold
The lush tropical rainforest aspect of a lot of the bush in NSW is just so incredibly beautiful.
I love not only the sights and sounds of such bush but the SMELL too. That deep earthy fragrance.
You just don't get that over here in Western Australia.
I really really MISS that.
I could almost smell it watching your film :)
Some beautiful shots there Arnold. Your upward panning was incredibly smooth! Even my hubby commented on that.
You have a manfrotto fluid head tripod?
So do I (just got it) I'm finding it not as fluid as I want it to be.....especially on the upward pans. It's only fluid from side to side and even then I'm finding it difficult to pan really slowly without tiny hand jerks.
Maybe just takes lots of practise?
Some of the shots in the deeper shadowed parts of where you were seem quite "blue" looking.
I'm wondering if you had your camera on some kind of an automatic setting there?
It doesn't seem quite "natural" to my eye, but I understand the difficulty of filming in deeply shaded areas.
I'm just pondering to myself......in case I have this same experience, whether in the editing process some of that "blue" tinge could be adjusted without affecting the quality of the images?
Anyway, enjoyed watching it.
Tracy
You're spot on about the smell -- but boy, was it ever cold down there in the shade (brrr).
I do have a new Manfrotto tripod and head but it's not a fluid head because that would have exceeded the budget -- and Marilyn has said that I can have a much better camera soon, so fiscal restraint is important ;-)
I would agree that smooth use of the tripod takes lots of practice. I have also given up expecting to always shoot something smoothly at the first or second attempt. I usually go through the movement without taking film and then once I'm "in the groove" and I've picked out the starting and ending points for the movement, I have a go for real. If I muck it up I just keep trying until I know I've aced it -- and you know instinctively when you got a good one.
As far as the "blue" goes ... I didn't adjust the white balance and perhaps I should have. It was extremely dark down there under the canopy of trees and at various times it was really pushing the limits of the camera to get satisfactory results. The other thing is that I had to adjust the brightness of a number of shots with Adobe Premiere Elements and this could quite possibly have had the side-effect of "tinting" the scene.
Of course, we are talking about a film made in the Blue Mountains ;-)
Thank you for such a thoughtful commentary!
Kindest regards,
Arnold
I really love how the music blended really well with the moving water. I don't remember the rainfalls there being so strong! Very very nice, Arnold. I loved it very much!!!
I hope that you had a great birthday celebration in Canberra. I suspect that it would've been a touch colder than the Blue Mountains.
You're right about the waterfalls -- they haven't flowed so much for a number of years. I live in the Blue Mountains and although there's been a lot of rain close to the coast around Sydney in recent months, Katoomba is far enough away that the weather is different. Fortunately, there's been good rain there recently and you've seen the wonderful results of it.
Your comments and praise are extremely generous.
Thank you!
Kindest regards,
Arnold
the music is brilliant.
I'm coming to Australia :-)
Thank you for such kind remarks. Yep, that music by Cliff Martinez is superb. I intend to use a few more pieces of his in forthcoming work that I've got planned.
Finally, I hope that my films have done their little part for Australian tourism :-) I'm certain that you'll enjoy your visit here immensely.
Kindest regards,
Arnold
Thank you for your kind remark. Yes, please come to Australia - I can guarantee that you'll have a great time and see some pretty neat stuff!
Kindest regards,
Arnold
Very good work. It was a perfect mix of sound and amazing footage. Thanks for that. I´ll like your opinion on some HDV tests that I´m making (vimeo.com/1621978). Diego.