Nature Short Video

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Veteran
Spent a day hiking in Sumter National Forest on Fall Creek which flows into the Chattooga River. It was mostly overcast which taxed my camera's low light capability but I managed to get enough footage for this short. Shot using a Panasonic HPX170. Edited with Edius 5.5 and encoded with TMPGEnc 4 express. Music “Above the Clouds” by B. Crutchfield and is licensed for use from audiojungle.com. Additional audio from “Volivieri” at freesound.org.

 
Beautiful work. I'm very interested in shooting natural settings with the HPX170. What settings did you use to overcome the overcast conditions that you shot in? Thank you, Kamau
 
Nice job Mark. Anyone who says the HPX170 can't produce great images or limited DOF shots needs to see this. Well you had a hand in it too!

Grant
 
kamau,

My settings for overcast conditions are as follows with manual white balance and color correction/added contrast in post if warranted.

00005000: 1 ; OPERATION TYPE: VIDEO CAM
00005001: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT
00005002: BE026801 ; SYNCRO SCAN :
00005003: 8 ; DETAIL LEVEL: +3
00005004: 8 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005005: 8 ; DETAIL CORING : +1
00005006: 8 ; CHROMA LEVEL: +1
00005007: 5 ; CHROMA PHASE: 0
00005008: 10 ; COLOR TEMP Ach: 0
00005009: 10 ; COLOR TEMP Bch: 0
0000500A: 114 ; MASTER PED: -2
0000500B: 16 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
0000500C: 0 ; DRS : OFF
0000500D: 5 ; GAMMA : B.PRESS
0000500E: 1 ; KNEE: AUTO
0000500F: 3 ; MATRIX: NORM1
00005010: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
00005011: 0 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
 
very nice, did you use any lens adapters? macro? I find my macro lens was a great addition to my hpx170's capabilities(for shallow)
 
Yes, in three shots (coneflower, web, spider) a B+W screw on +3 closeup adapter was used. I have not had it long and am still learning how to use it. It has razor thin DOF and degrades the resolution slightly which is compensated with 10% sharpening in post.
 
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Beautiful, Mark!

Especially love the web with water drops at :54 and spider CU (well, all the CUs!) and the creek bottom at 1:28.
The slider shot's quite nice, too.

Are the last 2 shots slow shutter or an effect?

Gorgeous as always!
 
Thanks, the last two shots are a "motion blur" filter in Edius 5.51. Works best when there are stationary objects (rocks, no wind blown foliage) to contrast with the motion blur in the water. Just like doing a photo with a long shutter speed.
 
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