Crazy camera setups!

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

Ryan Patrick O'Hara

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I wanted to start a thread that features photographs of crazy camera set ups (or cool sane ones). We've all had monster configurstions, or have hung a camera over a cliff, off a car, over or under water, etc. I want to see crazy camera configs and rigs. I'll post some soon.
 
There's a 5D somewhere in here. Along with a BFD remote focus, Sennheiser wireless receiver, wireless video transmitter, and a bunch of other stuff. Time to switch between Steadicam and sticks: about 10 minutes of me and the 1st AC sliding rods, undoing bolts, and attaching accessories.

Flew beautifully because it had so much inertia though! :thumbsup:
 

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I'll start with a recent one from a couple of days ago in Oklahoma. The DP pictured is a fellow DVXuser, and I'm 1st ACing.

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We glued a piece of wood to an inner-tube and ratchet strapped the camera to the whole thing. We used a mini cardellini clamp to mount the 7" LCD and used the israeli/articulating arm to hold a firm piece of foam core to shade the camera from heat. The temperature was over 104 degrees and the river was a nice 80-85 degrees! We had to ice the camera, and I had a small pelican case with spare batteries, cards (no hard-drive in this heat!), compressed air and a few super-speeds. We kept a spare towel next to the camera, and it served almost indispensably, as drying our hands before touching the camera was a must!
 
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Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
I'll start with a recent one from a couple of days ago in Oklahoma. The DP pictured is a fellow DVXuser, and I'm 1st ACing.

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We glued a piece of wood to an inner-tube and ratchet strapped the camera to the whole thing. We used a mini cardellini clamp to mount the 7" LCD and used the israeli/articulating arm to hold a firm piece of foam core to shade the camera from heat. The temperature was over 104 degrees and the river was a nice 80-85 degrees! We had to ice the camera, and I had a small pelican case with spare batteries, cards (no hard-drive in this heat!), compressed air and a few super-speeds. We kept a spare towel next to the camera, and it served almost indispensably, as drying our hands before touching the camera was a must!
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Looks kinda scary! I'd want my camera in plastic!
 
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Did this a couple of years ago. Wanted the effect of spray paint going over the camera lens, so double-bagged it and used plexi-glass. You can see the result here at around :17

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Did this a couple of years ago. Wanted the effect of spray paint going over the camera lens, so double-bagged it and used plexi-glass. You can see the result here:

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Haha, is that in an auto painting ventilation room? I've used those for 'futuristic' sets!


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That's an awesome set-up Ryan!

Did you get a smooth shot across the water with the innertube??

Tom



Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
I'll start with a recent one from a couple of days ago in Oklahoma. The DP pictured is a fellow DVXuser, and I'm 1st ACing.

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We glued a piece of wood to an inner-tube and ratchet strapped the camera to the whole thing. We used a mini cardellini clamp to mount the 7" LCD and used the israeli/articulating arm to hold a firm piece of foam core to shade the camera from heat. The temperature was over 104 degrees and the river was a nice 80-85 degrees! We had to ice the camera, and I had a small pelican case with spare batteries, cards (no hard-drive in this heat!), compressed air and a few super-speeds. We kept a spare towel next to the camera, and it served almost indispensably, as drying our hands before touching the camera was a must!
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I've sent one from a short I did in 2009 to Camera Dept. Porn (http://cameradeptporn.tumblr.com/day/2010/02/27):

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Rio de Janeiro's heat is no joke!

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Did this a couple of years ago. Wanted the effect of spray paint going over the camera lens, so double-bagged it and used plexi-glass. You can see the result here at around :17

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Did Dexter hire you?
 
finchy said:
That's an awesome set-up Ryan!

Did you get a smooth shot across the water with the innertube??

Tom
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We did a couple of moving shots in the water. Mainly actors swimming toward camera, and we'd float the camera back in the same direction. Aside from the natural buoyancy movement, moving the camera was much more smooth than I had predicted. Operating, however, seems difficult. Our river had lots of terrain change and debris on the bottom. So walking around became a cautious guessing game. I'd imagine had the river bottom been the same depth and smooth everywhere, it would have been a cake walk.
 
hi all

not crazy exacly but some of the rigs i have put together on the last few films i have done.

cheers
ian
 

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Here is one from a few years back. This was a step-off a crane and follow the actors coming out of the building to the parking lot shot. The crane started about 60 feet in the air we followed the outline of a tree to show the parallax.
 

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Ian, those car rigs are cool, thanks for posting them. Hostess trays are the most annoying in my opinion. The slider on a carhood is a good approach... those low rigs are the dangerous ones! A little pebble can kick up and ruin your day! Here is another from the same shoot as the water tube. I took the photo, and that is, again, the DP/cam op.

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Ha, Ryan's making me look like a redneck... Just wanted to chime in to say that the floating platform was pretty stable IMO, and the truck rig traveled all of 4mph, in case anyone had a heart attack looking at those. This is simply how we had to improvise when my request for a golf cart vanished into the ether!
 
Heres two shots from a shoot I DP'ed earlier this summer which revolved around this creekside location. But to get the shots we needed, my RED needed to go in the middle of the creek...always fun...

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dcarstens said:
Ha, Ryan's making me look like a redneck... Just wanted to chime in to say that the floating platform was pretty stable IMO, and the truck rig traveled all of 4mph, in case anyone had a heart attack looking at those. This is simply how we had to improvise when my request for a golf cart vanished into the ether!
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Hahaha! Well that was the last of the pictures from that shoot. :)
 
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