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Here is my first serious attempt at video. As I mentioned previously, the pool thing was more of a a general test to try out the camera, microphone and editing software.
I spent considerably more time working on this one which is about Kevin O’Brien, a student at UGA who stencils for fun and now profit.
Shot some stand alones at a local pool which opened for the summer today for the Banner Herald.
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| Lifeguard Brittany Byers watches over the deep end of the Bishop Park pool Saturday afternoon as kids jump off the diving boards. |
Got a call this afternoon while I was shooting stand-alones for the Banner Herald asking if I could shoot some photos of the club house at Jennings Mill Country Club which had burnt down in the morning.
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| Pat Hutto, left, and Ryan Clingin, right, remove some of the items that survived the fire from the clubhouse Saturday afternoon at the Jennings Mill Country Club. |
I recently purchased a Canon FS 100 video camera based on some research I did. I got it primarily though because of a) its small form factor and b) it uses SD card memory as opposed to miniDV tape. There are many advantages to part b. The first being that I don’t have to capture tape before I can start editing. The camera lets me pop the card into the computer, copy off the card and then boom I’m ready to go.
The main reason I got the camera is that I have no video in my portfolio as of right now. Starting in two weeks I will begin an internship at The Anniston Star in Anniston, Ala., and I wanted to make sure I had the means to do some multimedia work while I’m there.
Today I had to shoot some stand-alones at pool for the Athens Banner-Herald and I decided to bring the camera with me to test it out. There were a number of factors from this being a top notch attempt, mainly that I haven’t done video in about 4.5 years (when I was in high school). The second being that I got a call from the Photo Editor, John Curry, asking me to shoot something else as well that I had to run to.
Anyways, given that this is a first attempt, for all intents and purposes, I don’t think its terrible. I mainly wanted to test out the video quality of the camera. Blip.tv, where the video is being hosted does its own compression, but it looks pretty good on my computer.
So, here is the video.
***The video quality is a bit low because of the transcoding for the host, I’m working out the kinks and it will hopefully work better next time*
Today some friends and I ventured down to Atlanta to catch the Braves game and later on see the laser show at Stone Mountain. Given that these two things occur outside, I naturally checked the weather before I left. The forecast wasn’t good, but earlier i had checked out the radar and couldn’t see clouds anywhere in the southeast.
We went to the game, where the weather was beautiful, but decided to skip the laser show as the sky turned black and lighting began to sprout up so we decided to head back to Athens.
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| Accidentally caught myself in the sunglasses of Bill Richards, but whatever. |
