Night Mountain Biking on Epic-W

[Tommy Penick]

Popped in the Low-light OLPF, cranked the ISO so I could at least see focus, shot WFO, hiked as many lights in as we could (not many), and crossed my fingers. Helium sensor is looking pretty clean if I must say so myself! Comments and criticism welcome!

Ipp2 was a HUGE help on the out of gamut and roll off areas of the laser etching at 1:14

 

[Chris Niswonger]

One of the best Helium examples I've seen yet. Fantastic work!

 

[Gar Hoover]

Loved it!

 

[Peter Strietmann]

Gnarly!

 

[Daniel John]

Really entertaining and well done Tommy!

 

[Brandon J.F.]

Very well done, Tommy. Looks great!

 

[Will Kalla]

Loved it. Having myself done night time MTB rides in the jungles of Soth East Asia.

 

[Nick Morrison]

This is so good, on so many levels.

First off, the creative is great, and the VO is fantastic.

Second, it's shot really, really well. Love the coverage, which helped give the edit a lot of pace, and rhythm.

Third love the camera movement - gimbal?

Fourth - loved how clean it was, especially at night. What glass were you guys rocking?

Again, amazing job.

Telling a great story like this over 3 minutes is REALLY HARD. And you nailed it.

AWESOME JOB!

 

[Ryan Williams]

I agree with Nick. Really well done! I'd like to know how you did the night camera moves as well. Did you setup a zip line?

 

[Tommy Penick]

Thanks for all the kind words, folks! Glad y'all enjoy it.

Nick, there's a fair bit of gimbal in the night ride scene itself, and the shop is between handheld, sticks, and just a tiny touch of slider. I just used Canon glass on everything, most of the night ride was actually a 16-35 since I had to move super fast and just needed flexibility on the cable cam and on the gimbal.

Ryan, I put the camera on a cable cam with the Movi for a fair bit of the night ride shots. Super fun way to shoot riding!

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Brilliantly done!

I would love to see a version with a voice not as "whimsical" and more serious/lower, just because I think the voice pulled me out of the story a bit with the amazing visuals you had. Wanted a voice more aggressive I guess, but that's just me.

But well done! Loved the build up.

 

[Dustin Hoye]

This is so awesome, on so many levels!

 

[Shawn P]

This is great work. Very impressed! Thank you for sharing!