(Jan van der Meer: " Also great use of a self made glider for steady smooth travel shots to left and right! See his weblog photo's.")

This video was shot in a few hours at Ashland State Park in Massachusetts. The weather was finally beginning to warm up and people were out enjoying the outdoors.

I brought my PMW-EX1 camcorder with the Letus Extreme, a Vinten Vision 3 tripod, my homemade dolly system, three lenses and two filters.

I used PVC pipe and my dolly for the slow slides and trucks. I do have to be careful because even a speck of dirt makes the camera vibrate in the dolly system.

The three lenses I used was a Sigma 18mm f3.5, a Nikon 24mm f2.8 and a Nikon 300mm f4 telephoto. I used the telephoto lens to get tight shots of people fishing from across the lake. I also used it to get shots of the turtles basking in the sun.

I recycled a few shots from previous trips to the lake. The macro shots of the Garder snakes was from a video I shot a month ago called “Snake Eye View”. I used a Nikon 55mm f2.8 macro lens for these intimate snake shots.

I used a Tiffen 52mm circular polarizing filter to help with the sky and water reflections. This made the water a deep dark hue and created a very blue sky. I also used a four point start filter for the sun smear you see at the end of the video.

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

TRT: 4 minutes

Music by: James Newton Howard
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Commercial, done January 2007 in Göteborg. Canon XL H1, P+S Mini35, Zeiss High Speed primes.

For BBC documentaries and many Hollywood productions these lions were used as an actor or stand in. Certain moves and Close ups seen in many Serengeti/ Masai- Mara documentaries. Reasanable tame lions so quite save for us to enter the cage and did some close/ups also. Fantastic experience of a life time. First time in 2005. I could use the new Sony FX1 in HDV mode. 1440x1080i. Soon we go back for another production at this great *** Protea Hotel near Pretoria. Fortunately I had a small pocket tripod with me. Ideal for low angle shots. Quick set up and pull back. Now specially edited in Vegas8 for Vimeo. After several tests finally got the best settings for our Pal footage into progressive MPEG4.

Filmed in HD. This little creature has an unbelievable disguise, on the tree really hard to find. Its smaller than 1/2 inch. Filmed with two macrolenses 1 Century Achromatic diopter +7 and a +3. Camera Sony FX1. Tree grows in Garden of Eden next to Monkeyland South Africa. Anybody knows what this worm is really called? Or did we discover a new species? Or is it really an Alien?