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Four Months In The Wilderness with the RED.

Should have taken the Red 300mm. I hear you can see Russia from up there:biggrin:
Sorry couldn't resist.
Awesome footage, looks great played back on a 1080p projector. This is why I am looking at buying a Red.
 
1Dog said:
Anyone know what lenses taken on the trek?

Beautiful footage, wow!
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Last week when I spoke with Kennan, he was headed out into the field to do some shooting. Being an associate of his, I can answer your question: he uses Nikon lenses, on RED and in his 35mm DSLR stills photography, although I believe for some of that footage he also used his Century re-housed Canon 150-600 zoom.

That's also the same mix of lenses I use when I shoot wildlife footage with RED - several Nikon lenses, a Canon 150-600 zoom, and also a RED 300mm.

Hope this helps...
 
MikeHedge said:
what kit / lenses did he have? how did he back up the footage? what tripod?

Mike
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See my last post for the general lenses info. He'll have to answer the backup question. I believe the tripod was a Sachtler head on Gitzo CF sticks.
 
MikeHedge said:
what kit / lenses did he have? how did he back up the footage? what tripod?

Mike
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Kennan shot most of the shots in this teaser with his Nikon lenses. I would say a good percentage was shot with his 80-200 f2.8. Quite a bit was also shot with his 17-35 f2.8. You would be surprised at how close Kennan is to the action is these shots!

To answer the backup question, we had a pretty good system in place. Kennan had his mac laptop with about 5TB of mirrored drives. He would copy off the footage onto a mirrored 1TB drive, take out one of the drives, and the next time he came up to a ranger station or someone he knew, he would ship the drives down to us at his studio in Santa Cruz CA. The next time Kennan could, he would call down to us at the studio and verify we got the drives and were able to copy the data off. We would then ship the drives up again and he would delete the files he had on the mirror up there. When Kennan was out of communication for a longer period, he also used 320GB laptop drives enclosed in a fw800 case. These actually worked really well too and during one point he had filled 6 of them on top of the other mirrored drives.

The tripod Kennan shoots with is a Sachtler SB20 on gitzo legs with a 150mm bowl. It is a really good setup and handles the RED without any problems.
 
love this nature footage
thats amazing

thanx
 
Hawaj said:
love this nature footage
thats amazing

thanx
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If you'd like to see more, you can also check out the footage of Kennan and myself on the Mammoth HD RED Footage Library (link below my signature). I believe Kennan's footage on MHD is mostly nature, but he also has some sports footage there. My footage there is nature, adventure travel, wineries, sports, and various other subjects.
 
Wow! Thank you for the kind thoughts. I'm touched!

In Alaska this season was the eighth rainiest summer in recorded history. It actually was better light especially around midnight!

This was my 23rd year in a row shooting where I call home. I think we have gotten about a quarter the way through logging all 7 terabytes of capture.

The hard part is now to find someone interested in a movie or a couple broadcast shows.

I am working on a Redwoods to the Sea project and was out shooting today when we just received our first rains since early spring! I love bad weather!

If you want to see what I am working on today you can see more CLICK HERE.

Best, Kennan

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Thank you, I have been shooting stills free lance for 25 years and I always feel lucky when they finally sell! I am looking and I am always hopeful!

I am going to include it in presentations I give as a lecturer.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ANOTHER TEASER!
 
Kennan, are you fearful of those grizzlies? I have all but lost my fear of black bears in the Sierras (they're cupcakes! :)), but it's my understanding that those bears in Alaska are very dangerous?

Do you pack a sidearm, bearspray, etc?
 
Tom,

As a former National Park Ranger in Yosemite, Denali, Glacier, Sequoia, etc. I will say fear is energy and is a must to survive. I used fear as energy to rescue people in a variety of wilderness big walls and backcountry situations.

Unlike the other bear guy, that will stay out of this discussion, who died, I am very respectful of grizzlies and have wrote four books on bears. Anthropomorphic is a term used to give animals human characteristics.

I like to think zoomorphic, learning from things wild and in their natural state. That said I know that just being out in the wild is changing all nature unless we become part of it and share in the responsibility to keep it Wild. That is a very long struggle and most people have problems giving right away to any animal either traffic jams let alone a Grizzly Bear feeding on blueberries!

Long story, sorry! By the way, you should fear the Black Bears, Ursus americanus, in all their color phases. They are more likely to consider you food than a grizzly who more or less wants to defend it's personal dominance hierarchy and maybe its food!

From bear management Ranger jobs in Yosemite and Sequoia, I knew of too many really bad incidents of nice bears going crazy. I guess they reach an impass as they get crowded, much like us, except their jaws and claws are lethal.

All this said wild animals have nothing to gain by coming in contact with humans in the wild. So, please do not overact, your chances of seeing a bear let alone getting hurt are rare. In The Sierra Nevadas you are more likely to get hurt by lightning!

If you want to email me I will send you my "Grizzlies in the Wild" Book, via pdf.

Lastly, I filmed an incredible interview with a top Alaska Fish and Game Bear Biologist out in the field with bears all around in the frames. I asked him all these questions I had been asked for years and more. It is compelling and the REAL grizzly bear information. I will try to edit it and get it up on a posting. You may be very surprised at the truthyness!

Peace,

Kennan
 
Gibby said:
If you'd like to see more, you can also check out the footage of Kennan and myself on the Mammoth HD RED Footage Library (link below my signature). I believe Kennan's footage on MHD is mostly nature, but he also has some sports footage there. My footage there is nature, adventure travel, wineries, sports, and various other subjects.
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Those images, Gibby, are what I showed when I presented you as one of the DP's that was coming to film Sirens of TI, they were off course blown away, love that site!!!

ciao
 
Wow that is amazing. The Bear is my spirit animal. I love wildlife videos. Don't get to shoot much of that living in the city but I just came back from Ireland and wished I were shooting on the RED instead of a Sony because of the beauty of the land down in Kerry.
 
Kennan,
stunning footage ; some of the best wildlife stuff I've ever seen. Lot of hard work and patience in those images, congratulations.
Aloha
-A
 
Hah... Alaska is definitely the most "AMERICAN" state.. you've got a bald eagle, bear and mountains in the same frame... my mind keeps superimposing the american flag and national anthem..

Amazing footage, thanks for sharing!

You must have wet your pants when you got the shot of the lake, mountain and owl(?) flying with perfect manners, directly through the centre line of the frame...
Nature delivered on this one!!! Note perfect performance!
 
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