Fisheye YO-YO for Yo

Justyn

Justyn

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Greetings all,

Had the pleasure to work with a great producer/Director from Cali on her upcoming feature on the world of competitive yo-yoers. I have a few friends in the community and shot a project for Duncan a few years back with one. Got a couple of days of shooting done recently and a ton of MONEY like this. WIth and without lens flares.. but those are inevitable when shooting fisheye at around noon here in FL.


Really turned out quite well and I'll be cutting a short demo this week so there's a LOT more of this to come. Was a great time and the yo-yo people are pretty darn cool.

ENJOY:

http://www.electriccowtheater.com/YOYO/YO.mov
 
That's f' in funny. I love the way the yo - yo comes right up to the camera. Did you measure it out perfectly to avoid hitting the lens?
 
nah.. just kind of know where to be.. and beg 'em not to hit the bugger... got hit a few times later but price to pay to get the money shot.
 
when I'm shooting with enough light like outside, I'll shoot the fastest shutter possible so it was 1/1000th of a second, probably without an ND and a 5.6 or something for aperature. I trie to mimize blown out skies and all ot fhtat too .
 
Nice job, Justyn.

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Thanks all. and thanks for the grab bro. That does look sick. I did this for a documentary filmmaker from SF. She was really cool and she's raising funds to follow people around for a year on the competitive circuit. We didn't get the smoothers brother guy, BUT we got his contemporaries. The old school champions who were much better than him, but he helped to showcase the yo-yo more than anyone I think. IT's funny though that the old timers are the judges and they have 50 years of yo-yoing, but they can't stand on the stage any compete with even a 10 year old kid from Japan. Those kids are AMAZING. I'lll cut some footage together soon. I would also say that a friend I know, Steve Brown is really the man out there. Fun guy and amazing. I hope to be a part of this doc when she gets the funding as I'd get to travel the world and that's always a great gig...
 
Capt Quirk said:
They may be better, but Tommy is way funnier :)
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Very true. I LOVE the SBs. The one guy we got to interview, Dale something or other, was on the show a few times with Tommy and they did some dueling yo-yo thing. Said Tommy was the nicest guy and did more for worldwide yo-yo attention than any champion ever did. So that was cool.
 
I agree. I even picked up yo yos after watching him do his bit. Of course, in my hands, the yo yo reverted back to it's original roots as a weapon. Man I was dangerous!

But anyways, that is exactly why I think he should be included.
 
You are right, but I don't think he participates in the circuit. The director has plans to try and track him or his people down. We'll see whats up.

Were you at the Worlds this week?
 
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