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Dancing Jellyfish
5 months ago
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1. Dancing Jellyfish
5 months ago
Taken at the Aquarium in Chattanooga, TN.
Shot in HDV Cine mode with Auto white balance.
This is my first piece with the Canon HV20 and I welcome any and all comments. Thanks for watching!
Shot in HDV Cine mode with Auto white balance.
This is my first piece with the Canon HV20 and I welcome any and all comments. Thanks for watching!
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Feedback on the editing and shooting side: some of the shots were trying to follow the jellyfish a bit too much, let them come in and out of the frame. Try to avoid movement on your side as much as possible. Also, cut a bit more and fade between shots. For example, when you have a shaky shot, or when people are flashing with their digicams, remove that piece of footage and fade the rest into it.
On the exporting side: you exported incorrectly, with black bars left and right. This means that you used a wrong aspect ratio or something. Use the export tutorials from the TEchnical Help forum sticky thread.
Other than that, it's cool.
I also agree with Eugenia's technical suggestions. My suggestion is that when trying to capture something as tricky as these creatures, try to anticipate where one or two are going - and them move the camera so that they enter the frame from (say) top left and move cross the frame - all the while keeping the camera still. Don't try to track them.
Also, I find it advantageous to keep the camera running all the time, even when I'm trying to re-position ready for the next shot. It means that your recording rubbish for a few seconds each time, but it eliminates any start-up lag with the camera. I find that it's then easy to cherry-pick the good portions during the editing phase as Eugenia also said.
P.S. I understand that there is now an aquarium in Atlanta - is it as good as the one in Tennessee?
Although I'm an Aussie, I lived in Atlanta for 2 years and visited the aquarium in Chattanooga - it was absolutely bloody fantastic.
What modes did you use to shoot thing? 24p? Regular? What white balance? What exactly was this shot in?
Also, what song/composer is this?
This would be perfect for like planet earth on the national geographic/discovery channel but you really should try to predict where the jellies will move and then set up right before them. That way they move in and out of the frame.
Arnold,
There is an aquarium in Atlanta, but I have not been to it yet. My wife has and she says the one in Chattanooga is better.
Chris,
The composer is Danny Elfman from his Serenada Schizophrana. It is the second movement, Blue Strings.
Also, I have updated the description with the settings I used to shoot.
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this is beautiful and i LOVE danny elfman.
:-) a dinosaur.
This is a different world. And we would never understand it.