I'll share my first real attempt at a mini-movie for your warm water "wish I was there in Hawaii scuba diving" enjoyment.
And just for your giggles, I diverge from all the most talked about "GoPro" filters, by using a 55mm threaded Fantasea Blue Water RED Filter, and gasp, often using both red filter AND twin 600 SOLA lights at the same time during a daytime shot..... blasphemey I know......grins....but it works for me, and after watching my mini-movie you might want to try it too. Major example are: Check out the lit up underside of the turtle and a couple other fill-in illuminated shots of under the super large Mushroom coral towards the end. Nicely lit up undersides of both, with a blue water open background.
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Shot this mini-movie over a week duration scuba diving from the live-aboard dive boat the Kona Aggressor on the west coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. We had many over-cast days, and you can tell those are different from the "punch of full sunshine day colors" of non-cloudy days. Also off of Kona you're often only diving 1/4-1/2 mile off shore, so Viz tens to get a bit hazy if the surf was up and we had a 2-3 foot or more swells all week. No excuses, my video colors are awesome compared to many other videos I've seen IMHO.
Very little to zero post production color tweeking. That's just not my style. Smidge of brightness/contrast and that's it. Either get the shot right the first time, or it gets dumped onto the editing room floor as I just won't force the color histogram in post production to make sand pink. Zero Cineform correction, Auto White Balance, shoot and smile. Easy Squeezy.
I will self critique and say the Fantasea filter when shot shallow, like many other red filters at ~15-20 foot depth, adds a tinge of yellow hue to the video. But Honestly, that's the dominate color of many of the hawaiian corals so you be the judge.
Vast majority (over 90% of this mini-movie) was shot in 720/60FPS.
Twin Sola 600's ROCK both for fill in day lights, as well as Manta Ray night video. While I'd love Twin 1200's, my Twin 600's were cheaper than a single 1200 so that's the route I went as I wanted (and everyone really needs) twin video lights for no shadows. I consider the $700 in lighting/tray well spent. You just gotta have lighting. Filters only take you so far.........
Shot 19 hours of raw GoPro Hero2 video, Then 130-140 HOURS of self-critical-over-anal Sony Vegas editing later, produced this 15 minute mini-movie comprised of 5 chapters of unique dives, about 3 minutes per chapter.
I dedicated it to my Mom who has brain cancer........
Yes the holy rule of "People get bored after 2-3 minutes watching long dull boring videos" has been broke by me the Executive filmer/producer guy...........but I honestly don't feel this is long dull or boring.
Give it 15 minutes of your life, every 3 minutes it really changes tempo.
I think you'll enjoy the music, dive video, and sound effects from Diver Dave Productions. I really like Sony Vegas Software.
Feedback is always welcome, especially from fellow GoPro video divers.
Happy Bubbles, keep it fun, keep it real.
video work underwater can be quite challenging shooting with filters, lighting, and meanwhile trying to stay alive while getting dog piled into the reef bottom by a 1000 pound 12-13 foot wingspan manta ray during a night dive....ho hum, pretty boring.
No I'm not Steven Speilburg, but I think this video after 140+ hours of post production editing turned out great, and I'm proud to share it.
Go Full Screen, crank the volume, and enjoy the high def.
https://vimeo.com/57947271
Signed Diver Dave, master of some, learner of many.
"A good diver is always learning"
And just for your giggles, I diverge from all the most talked about "GoPro" filters, by using a 55mm threaded Fantasea Blue Water RED Filter, and gasp, often using both red filter AND twin 600 SOLA lights at the same time during a daytime shot..... blasphemey I know......grins....but it works for me, and after watching my mini-movie you might want to try it too. Major example are: Check out the lit up underside of the turtle and a couple other fill-in illuminated shots of under the super large Mushroom coral towards the end. Nicely lit up undersides of both, with a blue water open background.
.
Shot this mini-movie over a week duration scuba diving from the live-aboard dive boat the Kona Aggressor on the west coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. We had many over-cast days, and you can tell those are different from the "punch of full sunshine day colors" of non-cloudy days. Also off of Kona you're often only diving 1/4-1/2 mile off shore, so Viz tens to get a bit hazy if the surf was up and we had a 2-3 foot or more swells all week. No excuses, my video colors are awesome compared to many other videos I've seen IMHO.
Very little to zero post production color tweeking. That's just not my style. Smidge of brightness/contrast and that's it. Either get the shot right the first time, or it gets dumped onto the editing room floor as I just won't force the color histogram in post production to make sand pink. Zero Cineform correction, Auto White Balance, shoot and smile. Easy Squeezy.
I will self critique and say the Fantasea filter when shot shallow, like many other red filters at ~15-20 foot depth, adds a tinge of yellow hue to the video. But Honestly, that's the dominate color of many of the hawaiian corals so you be the judge.
Vast majority (over 90% of this mini-movie) was shot in 720/60FPS.
Twin Sola 600's ROCK both for fill in day lights, as well as Manta Ray night video. While I'd love Twin 1200's, my Twin 600's were cheaper than a single 1200 so that's the route I went as I wanted (and everyone really needs) twin video lights for no shadows. I consider the $700 in lighting/tray well spent. You just gotta have lighting. Filters only take you so far.........
Shot 19 hours of raw GoPro Hero2 video, Then 130-140 HOURS of self-critical-over-anal Sony Vegas editing later, produced this 15 minute mini-movie comprised of 5 chapters of unique dives, about 3 minutes per chapter.
I dedicated it to my Mom who has brain cancer........
Yes the holy rule of "People get bored after 2-3 minutes watching long dull boring videos" has been broke by me the Executive filmer/producer guy...........but I honestly don't feel this is long dull or boring.
Give it 15 minutes of your life, every 3 minutes it really changes tempo.
I think you'll enjoy the music, dive video, and sound effects from Diver Dave Productions. I really like Sony Vegas Software.
Feedback is always welcome, especially from fellow GoPro video divers.
Happy Bubbles, keep it fun, keep it real.
video work underwater can be quite challenging shooting with filters, lighting, and meanwhile trying to stay alive while getting dog piled into the reef bottom by a 1000 pound 12-13 foot wingspan manta ray during a night dive....ho hum, pretty boring.
No I'm not Steven Speilburg, but I think this video after 140+ hours of post production editing turned out great, and I'm proud to share it.
Go Full Screen, crank the volume, and enjoy the high def.
https://vimeo.com/57947271
Signed Diver Dave, master of some, learner of many.
"A good diver is always learning"
