Bear Mtn. Hot Dogs & Handrails (Build 17)

[Andrew Walker]

I shot this footage over the weekend at Bear Mtn and it was a lot of fun. Bear Mtn had 110 tons of ice brought in to make the snow for the event/contest. The Red camera was a popular kid at the event. Lots of people came up and wanted to talk about it. But since I had the biggest camera there the question I got the most was "How much does that cost?"

Anyway, here's the footage. It was shot using Build 17 and I had my Nikon 80-200mm zoom on the camera for all the shots except for the timelapse of the course being put together. I was also using Tiffen's Hot Mirror and a .9 ND that I just got last week.

Bear Mtn 1920x960 306 MB

Bear Mtn 1280x640 171 MB

Right click and download. Run time is 6 minutes

 

[Jun-Dai]

I think you got your filesizes backwards. The 1920 one is 306.06 MB.

 

[Andrew Walker]

Thanks man. I didn't notice that.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Awesome, dude!!

Seriously, I was getting mesmerized near the middle there, when you were showing those guys jumping from behind, backdropped by the crowd. Obviously the last couple of shots severely backlit by the sun were epic, too.

Only suggestion would be to lay into the footage with some heavier color correction. CMOS/RAW tends to look pretty washed out in the full daylight unless you go to town on the color correction.

Awesome camera work, dude.

 

[Andrew Walker]

Tom, I usually push the colors up a little higher in the footage I post. But I wanted to try something a little different. Plus QT seems to make things just a tad brighter, which seems to take away the color a bit.

I got my work out that day getting my camera and tripod up the hill. Plus a bit of a sunburn because I was thinking about how the light looked, not how it was hitting me.

 

[Brandon Fraley]

excellent! What framerate was most of that in? Did you find it difficult to focus? LCD or EVF?

 

[Andrew Walker]

excellent! What framerate was most of that in? Did you find it difficult to focus? LCD or EVF?

I stayed at 120fps almost all of the video, hence the aspect ratio. I do hope that one day the camera can do 120fps at 2K 16:9. I was using the EVF with my new Zacutto EVF mount and that thing is awesome and you can get them for $200 over at AbelCineTech. I didn't find it hard to focus. But when I was down at the bottom of the hill getting the stuff with the rails I would have to pull focus...sometimes. Its very hard on that 80-200mm because your DOF can be very small and the lens has a very quick travel from one end of focus to the other. Half of the time I would just split the difference. I did have my FF on my rig so that kind of helped a little pulling focus.

 

[Adrian Sims]

Great stuff - as a skateboarder in my younger days it was reminiscent of some of the slow-motion half-pipe sequences in the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade videos with Tony Hawk, Mike McGill and Steve Caballero all on the half-pipe at once. Did a great job with focus considering you were probably shooting over the top of the crowd. Sports footage has never looked so good!

 

[Sean R.]

Looks great Drew. I was so bummed I couldn't make it up the hill for that this weekend, but you just took me there. Thanks man.

 

[Brian B]

amazing footage! so mad I couldn't make it up there this year. like sean said, thanks for taking us there.


it gets me so amped for this season!

 

[Andrew Walker]

I'm glad you guys are enjoying the footage so much. The one thing that I was really pissed that I didn't get was one of the riders doing a double back-flip. There just wasn't time for me to move back enough to get it. I'm sure when I'm up there for another one of these types of events I'll get it then. Since it always seems to come up when everyone is warmed up and has a good feel for the jump.

 

[Andrew Walker]

Awesome, dude!!

Seriously, I was getting mesmerized near the middle there, when you were showing those guys jumping from behind, backdropped by the crowd. Obviously the last couple of shots severely backlit by the sun were epic, too.

Only suggestion would be to lay into the footage with some heavier color correction. CMOS/RAW tends to look pretty washed out in the full daylight unless you go to town on the color correction.

Awesome camera work, dude.

Okay Tom, I broke down and did some color correction to the clips. I just added some color like I usually do and made it warmer. There the same links at the beginning of the post but here they are so people don't have to go back.

Bear Mtn 1920x960 321 MB

Bear Mtn 1280x640 178 MB

 

[Alex Atkinson]

Tom, I usually push the colors up a little higher in the footage I post. But I wanted to try something a little different. Plus QT seems to make things just a tad brighter, which seems to take away the color a bit.

I got my work out that day getting my camera and tripod up the hill. Plus a bit of a sunburn because I was thinking about how the light looked, not how it was hitting me.

Nice work Drew. As far as the QuickTime Gamma Shift this may help fix contrast issues...

After rendering into a QuickTime/h.264 file, open it up in QuickTime and select “Show Movie Properties.” Highlight the video track then click on the “Visual Settings” tab. Towards the bottom left you should see “Transparency” with a drop-down box next to it. Select “Blend” from the menu then move the “Transparency Level” slider to 100%. Choose “Straight Alpha” from the same drop-down and close the properties window and finally “Save.”

a.a.

 

[Andrew Walker]

Thanks Alex, I'll have to look into this because that gamma shift has always been a pain in my ass.