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I grabbed my PMW-EX1 and drive to the powerlines about three miles from my house. I knew the sunset was gonna be sweet.

But, I was about ten minutes to late. I saw the soft ball of fire just drop out of site as I parked the car. So this video is short and not very good. It does show off the camera's low light capabilities...

I managed to get a few shots as it became darker by the minute and the sound of thunder rumbled in the distance.

I used interval recording and shot 720 30p at 1 frame per 1 second of time elapsed. I used my 35mm f2.8 and my 200mm f3.5 lenses to shoot this footage.

As always, I had the Letus Extreme attached to the front of my camera. I did not have time to set up my motorized pan head for a panning time lapse. Next time...

I edited this in Final Cut Pro and color graded with Magic Bullet Looks. I over-saturated the colors in the video.

TRT: 44 seconds

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  • Moayad Hassan 4 months ago
    A bit over saturated, but that gave it a more dramatic look I guess.

    You captured some amazing clouds here, I don't know where you are, but we also had some wonderful clusters of clouds yesterday, but I couldn't go out to photograph it :(
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  • Maarten Toner 4 months ago
    Nice but th shot from 0:09 - 0:15 the chromatic abberations is that from the lens or a FCP effect, perhaps the combo with the EX? Wondering because i'm ordering an EX soon :)
  • Tom Guilmette 4 months ago
    i doubled the saturation with a filter. the ex1 footage is very clean. buy the ex1...but dont rule out the new ex3.
  • Maarten Toner 4 months ago
    Right, figured it had to be an effect, I know you can get effects like this by stacking lenses but they have to be pretty cheapo lol. If i'm not mistaken the EX has chromatic abberation correction build in. Just saw Philips EX 3 review and will wait for that one. Recently tried an EX 1 but was slightly shocked by the ergonomics. It must really hurt the wrist after a while.
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  • astute 4 months ago
    Wow, I love the shot especially around 0:30

    Like it, always nice to have this kind of shots in your portfolio for many many productions you might do in the future.
  • Tom Guilmette 4 months ago
    thanks
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  • setimapro 4 months ago
    Tom, greetings from Brazil, your videos are awesome, and i want to maintain contact with you, and, i noticed some cromatic aberration on lake video and this one, is because the lens adaptor? lens-over-lens ? tnx ! Alan Jr
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  • David Hodge 1 month ago
    What was the musical selection, Tom? The visuals were nice, but the music made it for me on this one.
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