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So I bought one of these time lapse cameras, with the wide angle lense because we've just put a website up and I wanted some content. I got the idea from another AS member whos videos look great (bonner1040). I wish I could say this was my first video, but it's the 5th or 6th. The first ones turned out awful for different reasons, and I wish I'd have known earlier how to do some pretty basic things to make a decent video. I missed out on some one off opportunities to record some tree work due to just doing stupid stuff, but I think I've got the hang of it (sort of). In no particular order here are some things I learned;
Keep the sun behind the camera! I lost the first couple vids to shooting directly into the sun. You can barely see anything.
Get the camera up high. The top of your chip bin is not a bad place to start. From the ground the angle is silly.
Start cutting the branches close to the camera first if you can, or put the camera in a place so that it's on the side you'll start cutting first (but still with the sun behind it). If you climb up and start cutting the far side, you'll see nothing till the last few branches (doh! there goes another vid).
The wide angle lense is pretty awful. It's only barely sharp in the centres, and very blurry towards the outside. Bare that in mind when framing your shot.
Take a bit of time to frame your shot, its harder than it seems. Make sure you put the camera somewhere the guys wont knock it over :-(
Getting the video online will take longer than doing the tree. This small jacaranda which is my first successful vid took me about 20min to do the tree, and about an hour and a half to snip the empty beginning and end off, make the title screen, closing screen, pick the music, shrink the size down and upload to youtube. Hopefully that will improve.
Don't buy a camera the day before doing a cool take down. It just wont work.
Why don't they have portrait format video? Landscape just doesnt work for tree videos!
Shaun
So I bought one of these time lapse cameras, with the wide angle lense because we've just put a website up and I wanted some content. I got the idea from another AS member whos videos look great (bonner1040). I wish I could say this was my first video, but it's the 5th or 6th. The first ones turned out awful for different reasons, and I wish I'd have known earlier how to do some pretty basic things to make a decent video. I missed out on some one off opportunities to record some tree work due to just doing stupid stuff, but I think I've got the hang of it (sort of). In no particular order here are some things I learned;
Keep the sun behind the camera! I lost the first couple vids to shooting directly into the sun. You can barely see anything.
Get the camera up high. The top of your chip bin is not a bad place to start. From the ground the angle is silly.
Start cutting the branches close to the camera first if you can, or put the camera in a place so that it's on the side you'll start cutting first (but still with the sun behind it). If you climb up and start cutting the far side, you'll see nothing till the last few branches (doh! there goes another vid).
The wide angle lense is pretty awful. It's only barely sharp in the centres, and very blurry towards the outside. Bare that in mind when framing your shot.
Take a bit of time to frame your shot, its harder than it seems. Make sure you put the camera somewhere the guys wont knock it over :-(
Getting the video online will take longer than doing the tree. This small jacaranda which is my first successful vid took me about 20min to do the tree, and about an hour and a half to snip the empty beginning and end off, make the title screen, closing screen, pick the music, shrink the size down and upload to youtube. Hopefully that will improve.
Don't buy a camera the day before doing a cool take down. It just wont work.
Why don't they have portrait format video? Landscape just doesnt work for tree videos!
Shaun
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