Nihil_Baxter
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Last year I went to Africa for the first time, shooting interviews in refugee camps for a friend´s thesis. I wasn´t expecting it to be easy in terms of aperture and colour, but it turned out to be doable under certain conditions. Back light can become very critical unless you brighten up the faces sufficiently.
Using a lavalier microphone on the ladies proved to be difficult due to the veils they wear. There´s constant rattling if you attach the lav directly to the veil, which would be moving constantly during the interview.
Anyhow, it still was fun, shooting INSIDE. As soon as I left the compounds where we usually conducted the interviews, I was immediately surrounded by dozens of curious people, especially kids. There´s no such thing as covert outside shooting in Africa, folks!
These pictures were taken at Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, the first one inside a hut with no artificial lighting, with the entrance curtain opened to provide front lighting, the second one was done outside:
Shooting in the Malaysian rainforest was a different story. Although it had already stopped raining when I started shooting, it was still constantly dripping due to the wet foliage overhead, so my DVX got a little wet now and then. I was happy to have a UV filter on to protect the lens from getting wet. Cleaning the filter wasn´t easy as my hands had gotten dirty climbing the path. I almost slipped several times, almost dropping my camera. And to make matters worse, on a particularly difficult stretch I decided to stow away the camera to have both hands free for climbing, this was exactly when a monkey family came passing by right above my head, sprinkling me with water from the branches they were climbing, so I missed that picture!
Overall, I can say the DVX is absolutely fit for duty
These pictures were taken at Fraser´s Hill, Malaysia:
Using a lavalier microphone on the ladies proved to be difficult due to the veils they wear. There´s constant rattling if you attach the lav directly to the veil, which would be moving constantly during the interview.
Anyhow, it still was fun, shooting INSIDE. As soon as I left the compounds where we usually conducted the interviews, I was immediately surrounded by dozens of curious people, especially kids. There´s no such thing as covert outside shooting in Africa, folks!
These pictures were taken at Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, the first one inside a hut with no artificial lighting, with the entrance curtain opened to provide front lighting, the second one was done outside:
Shooting in the Malaysian rainforest was a different story. Although it had already stopped raining when I started shooting, it was still constantly dripping due to the wet foliage overhead, so my DVX got a little wet now and then. I was happy to have a UV filter on to protect the lens from getting wet. Cleaning the filter wasn´t easy as my hands had gotten dirty climbing the path. I almost slipped several times, almost dropping my camera. And to make matters worse, on a particularly difficult stretch I decided to stow away the camera to have both hands free for climbing, this was exactly when a monkey family came passing by right above my head, sprinkling me with water from the branches they were climbing, so I missed that picture!
Overall, I can say the DVX is absolutely fit for duty
These pictures were taken at Fraser´s Hill, Malaysia:
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