Harley Davidson in HD

[ScottNelson]

Here's a 3 min. short, filmed with the D90 and shot in 'P', AE Lock, with a Tokina 11-16 f2.8 at 11mm.

Who says you can't shoot action with a D90.

http://vimeo.com/6883061

or

http://vimeo.com/6868546

 

[Anwar]

damn..its crazy that a still camera actually produces footage like that..

 

[Zim]

Man that was nice,,,,Forget the cameras I might have to buy another Harley.

 

[Rakesh Jacob]

Nice lean ins, were you showing off for the camera
Seriously nice turns for a 1200cc beast, or at least it looked dramatic on camera

 

[ScottNelson]

A note about audio... The D90 audio track was unusable, as you might expect because of splatter, over-mod, extreme wind noise, etc. I put my HVX in a backpack with an old RE-50 mic wrapped in a towel ( ok - so I didn't have a Rycote that would fit ) and recorded a second audio track. This was the only way to dampen the sharp Harley pipes 18" away. Set the HVX to time-of-day TC and in FCP was able to sync the audio with the D90.

In the second version, posted below, I only had a mono mic source so I offset the audio tracs by 1 frame to add presence to the sound. Also threw in a bit of gamma correction, sharpening and glow to the video.

Check it out...
http://www.vimeo.com/6883061

 

[J.R. Hudson]

You should get some footage of the neighbors faces when you start the hog up and go cruising through the hood. Heh heh

Footy looks nice though.