Animals: How are they doing this ?

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moxrox

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Did watch a bit youtube videos and saw this film scene about a stork...not sure in what forum section to post this question.

The video scene starts at 0:45 around....

I guess they used 2x cameras, one for the close shot picking the insect and another one with a wide angel lens, isnt it ?

Well this is wildlife and not the zoo, so how could they film that close and allure the stork to pick the grasshopper....exactly where the camera is pointing at.

Another thing, what possible fps did they use for the slowmotions ?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkR4yPUj0j8



Thx a lot for the help :beer:
 
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I'm with Ryan, last shot looks like CGI to me.

I would estimate the slo-mo is at somewhere around 500 to 1000 frames per second.

- Greg
 
Really ? WoW, it looks so real....never thought they would use CGI in a wildlife documentary. And I did wonder with what kind of technique this was captured hehe.

Thx a lot for this hint and about the estimated FPS.
 
I really doubt that shot's CG. Wildlife documentaries shoot ridiculous amounts of footage and devise all sorts of clever ways of getting shots...a lot of it comes down to waiting a really long time though.
 
I did read about it some weeks ago that they sometimes use man made caves or breeding burrows, tamed animals for certain shots and the well known cadaver trick to attract them. Not saying the stork is tamed, but I still wonder how they did it to get him that close to the camera and picking exactly the flower and to have a close shot aswell if this is not CGI, there are sometimes amazing shots to see in such wildlife documentaries.

Thx for the comments.
 
There's no CGI in that clip. Birds do catches insects with near perfection, you know, or else they'd starve to death. As a film maker all one has to do is shot and shot again until one catches that perfect moment.

It's not as simple as "2x camera", nature photographers and film makers spend extreme amounts of time in the field shooting massive amount of footage and then equal time in editing. The close-up of the flower is most likely staged in some way or another, it might even be done in a zoo. As for the slo-mo it looks like they brought out a Phantom in the field, which is pretty cool.
 
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