footage - "Magic Hour" in the mountains

[skinnyboy]

This clip is from a camping trip to New River Gorge in West Virginia last weekend.

http://hv20.info/yopu/magicmountain.mov

It's all handheld, and pretty shaky a couple times - sorry about that. Uneven ground. Plus Scotch.

All 24p, Cine mode. Captured in FCP, deinterlaced using JES_Deinterlacer, exported using Compressor (not very happy with the quality of what I'm posting - I still need to find an optimal setting for small size yet good picture). No color correction done.

Also - I kept auto focus on. It's pretty quick once it gets its bearings. The first shot of the fire demonstrates this pretty nicely.

I labeled my f-stops, and did a bit of bracketing so you can see how the camera reacts to the same light with aperture changes.

Yeah - and the zooms remind me of 70's kung fu movies for some reason.

I have some more footage of daytime on a nearby lake that I'll get up soon.

Finally (is anyone still reading?) the music is just something I whipped up.

Jason

 

[Norbert]

Beautiful, I like the sun beams shining through the trees.

 

[skinnyboy]

Thanks - smoke makes everything look cool.

 

[snoboarder8232]

The link no longer works.

 

[skinnyboy]

It still works for me. Do you have the latest Quicktime drivers?

 

[retaf99]

I love white water rafting down the New river. We try to go at least 2-3 times a year. Might hit the Gaully this fall.