Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Some time ago I changed my beam cross trigger to 9 Volt to make batteries easier to get. However, I had no idea how long the system would work on such a small battery. The 12 Volt system would run for days, but it’s not so easy to get 12 V batteries when you travel.
The test in the video was to see how many switches you would get from a 9 Volt battery. I had tested “static” life at 5 1/2 hours, but I didn’t know if triggering would have a bearing on the battery life…….seems not. Check the Video.
I am guessing over 500,000 triggers will do fine. I hope to give the trigger a run at an event this weekend. We’ll see how it goes in the field.
Tags: 9, battery, Beam, bench, camera, demo, laser, pocket, remote, switch, test, trigger, Trip, Video, volt, Wire, wizard
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Yet another of the shots I’ve always wanted to do. A little cliche, but hey. It’s a part of my little elements project, this is, of course, fire.
This video will give you an idea of the setup used. Not all the secrets are here, like how to light the match, but that’s for you to work out!!
Tags: commercial, CTB, fire, Flash, FlexTT5, gel, lighting, match, pocket, remote, setup, smoke, strobe, Studio, Video, wizard
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
I had a great week last week with Duane, Lucas and Matt from Sporting Images.Duane has a great attitude towards trying remotes and he let me give some shots a go.
The first shot we tried was from the under-pool port holes. I’d never been down under the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Center, so this was a great thrill.
This shot was not without it’s problems. My camera (1DMK2N) worked ok, but had to shoot at a challenging ISO3200. Duane’s amazing 5DMK2 was shooting at ISO6400 and the shots were amazingly clear, however, I couldn’t stop that set-up from falling asleep after a few minutes. My remote cables are home made and I hadn’t tried them on a 5D MK2, so they were likely the problem.
The second shot was a high shot of the starting blocks. It was a 1DMK2N at ISO3200 in TV Mode at 1/400th Second. The shot is part of an image montage product that Sporting Imagessell. This shot worked well……when I had it focussed correctly (I’ll get to that issue in a later post).
Images are from the 2009 Australian Age Championships. Images for sale through Sporting Images.
Tags: 2009, Age, Aquatic, Australian, Center, Championships, duane, focus, Hart, Olympic, pocket, remote, Sport, sportingimages, swimming, Sydney, underwater, Video, wizard, Workshop
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I’ve always wanted to mount a camera on the side of my car and see how it looks. Gave it a shot today and it was not too bad.
Check the video for the set-up.
Settings :
1Ds Mark 1 – The sacrifice camera
15mm f2.8 Fish Eye
2 x Magic Arms
Manfrotto 241 suction cup mount.
Super clamps, safety cables, Multimaxs etc….
Things to change for next time :
Lower and wider angle. Need to see wheel blur
Slower shutter speed to get better motion blur
Here are some of the final results.
Tags: automotive, boom, car, commercial, cup, mount, remote, Sport, suction, test, Video, window
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
I was off shooting the DirtWorks 100 for cycle-photos.com. It was a good weekend away with the boys and some ambitious shooting set-ups with remote cameras and remote flashes. Results were varied, but generally great!!
First Location was shot with 70-200 and a remote flash. Flash was in a tree about 1M from the shoot spot so it was only running at 1/128th power and zoomed at 35mm. The result from this was Great!!!
The second shot in this location was from a wide lens placed low with a remote flash. The problems with this were focus and shooting above the 1/250th sync speed of the cameras. We wanted to shoot at 1/400th minimum, so there would be some shutter blockage here and there. Most of the problems were focus. I focussed on the track where the riders were, then switched to manual focus, but they all appeared back-focussed. Something to work on for next time I guess.
I think next time if we swap these around, so the long shot is from a remote camera location and the wide is from the human it might work better. Other problems with the 580s powering off I have fixed now (C-Fn-14=1). I’ll try to give this a go before we head out again somewhere.
Tags: 100, camera, DirtWorks, images, Mountain Bike, photos, remote, Sport, Video
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