Pulling still photos from GoPro footage - Hero3+ results

[large_diver]

Recently on the GoPro Underwater Facebook group someone started a thread asking for examples of decent quality still photos extracted from GoPro underwater footage. I had only done this once before, but decided to do more of this to see what the results look like. All of these are extracted from video footage. I never take still photos with the GP.....I am shaky enough on video...I can't imagine getting quality still photos underwater with a camera that small.

I generally shoot 1080/60fps, medium. I use the Backscatter flip system with both warm and cold water filters and the Macromate mini lens. Some of these were shot with 1 light; some with my more recently purchased 2 light system.

Mechanics = I edit still photos using Apple's Aperture program. I import the GP video clips into Aperture - the program lets you advance frame-by-frame and then capture the pic into a jpg.

Anyway - take a look:

 

[toozler]

They look sharp scaled down, specially those with dive lights, but still very pixelated/grainy when looking at the full resolution frame grab.. When the framing is right, I prefer switching to the burst photo mode and giving it a go. Out of 10 photos, 1-2 come out ok.

 

[large_diver]

They look sharp scaled down, specially those with dive lights, but still very pixelated/grainy when looking at the full resolution frame grab.. When the framing is right, I prefer switching to the burst photo mode and giving it a go. Out of 10 photos, 1-2 come out ok.

Yes - good feedback. Some of these are better than others, since I did do some cropping.

Can you share any of your burst photo mode results? I have done almost no still photo shooting with my GoPro

Chris

 

[toozler]

Scaled down a bit, but taken on burst mode (photo). No lights and no post editing, just red filter: