ocean gravity

[InGearX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11b84Okcm8

or search youtube for "ocean gravity" - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=OCEAN+GRAVITY+-+Guillaume+Néry

how was this made?

 

[H2Andy]

no idea

but extremely cool

 

[redacted]

Did you notice the puffs of silt when the diver pushed off the bottom??




Neither did I.

 

[H2Andy]

I think he's not actually touching the bottom, his "steps" are either an optical illusion (he's actually much higher than it looks and the "steps" are fake) or he is touching areas with little or no silt (mostly dead coral/rocks whatever that is)

plus he's wearing no fins and that suit must keep him at just barely negative buoyancy.

awap: do you think it's fake?

 

[Storker]

how was this made?

Top-class director, top-class freediver, top-class photog. Probably lots of shootings, a great vision and some great work putting it all together.

I've got mixed emotions about Guillaume Nery. On the one hand, he's a great freediver and makes some of the best, most imaginative freediving videos there is. OTOH his videos sometimes come uncomfortably close to - if not crossing the border to - claims that just aren't true.

 

[H2Andy]

what a shame

 

[Storker]

Shame? Perhaps. I don't know, to be honest.

It's really difficult to be certain. Like I said, I love his videos. They are imaginative, and they express the rapture of the deep in a great way

example:
[video=youtube;ldgxr4f6pWI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgxr4f6pWI[/video],

I guess it's like my relationship to the Monty Python (some of it is pure, unadulterated genius, some of it is just crap), it's a mix of great and sh!ite.

 

[H2Andy]

Shame? Perhaps. I don't know, to be honest.

well, the deep dive video he admits to faking (in your link) ... why would one do that?

 

[diversteve]

Technically like Storker said. Julie is shooting single camera and gliding along in front of him.
At first I thought maybe on a towed sled but you don't seen any water disturbance.
Or they're both positively buoyant and coming up the wall fast - they're freedivers so could likely do that.
Although you can get largely the same effect by speeding up the frame rate ever so slightly in post production.

As much as you like/don't like what he's doing, she's probably the better diver. Keeping up with him, controlling the angles while filming the entire time...

 

[KeithG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v11b84Okcm8

or search youtube for "ocean gravity" - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=OCEAN+GRAVITY+-+Guillaume+Néry

how was this made?

i claim lots of current, many takes and lots of editing! not very difficult.

Ignore your sense of up and down as the camera angle is constantly changed - very interesting device, especially when they invert the camera so the "bottom" is at the top of the screen. The light pattern remains consistent, just inverted. I like it.

lack of any soft coral means that we can not tell how much current is present - i claim lots. He is simply being "blown" along by a strong current.

you can see his shadow cast onto the background multiple times so they are not using a "blue screen". it is all real.


You can do amazing stuff with multiple takes and an edit room. Years ago a friend was gushing over this "flash mob" orchestra video until I pointed out it was total marketing BS and a fake. The simple give away was incredible sound quality with multiple close up reverse angle shots but no camera-man or sound-man in sight.

here is an example: real or fake? Just ask yourself how many cameras it required? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23945btJYw