Who needs a Play Station ?

I've been experimenting of late with my GoPro Motorsport Videos which were shot at the Three Sisters Race Course which I have attended with, with DRB Rally Sport.

I just wanted to give my GoPro videos an "Arcade" feel to them, almost as if to give you the impression that your playing on a Playstation or an X-box or something like that .  As a matter of fact it is that classic game
SEGA Rally that I have based the above GoPro Motorsport video on.

One of the biggest problems that I face as a videographer is that fact that when I edit my videos in Sony Vegas then I am doing so on a 32" High Definition T.V. Screen.  And then when I upload the video to the internet i.e. YouTube then the "colours" of my videos can / may appear flat / bland or even over saturated at times.  Yes, this is due to a number of factors such as

• I've converted my video file to a less quality video file such as "WMV".
• Standard Definition and High Definition screens sees color in a different forms of light.
• Screens may not be fully calibrated which sees "colors" being scattered all over the place.
• Then there is different color profiles

But none the less it is pretty frustrating when you are trying to simply "guess" the correct colors in editing in order to suit all the people that may be watching your videos via different monitors. i.e. Standard Definition Monitors, Hi-Def Monitors, Uncalibrated Monitors, Iphones etc... etc...  again it's frustrating as it's not all the time that one can get that balance just right.  But one still does have to try and "Boost" the colours with in their videos in order to make their videos look better than other GoPro shooters.  Now on this occasion I've had to use "YouTubes" internal editing system and do an "Auto-Fix" in order to bring the above video back to life, due to the fact that when it was uploaded then the colors were way off when compared to the colors it is that I had on my 32 High Def Monitor.

Any way to close this blog with guys, I think that I'm becoming pretty addicted to making these Arcade Style GoPro Videos.  I just can't wait for the day now that I will be making even more GoPro Videos with more than just one GoPro Camera.

See you all later

Strober

Another day of just shooting stills...... :)

In my previous blog I talked about how important it is for me to shoot only stills at times.  This is because shooting stills to me is the main teacher behind becoming a better camera operator (well that is my theory anyway).

The problem with shooting stills for any photographer whilst they are on assignment , is then that they may have to think more creatively outside of the box whilst at the same time they may have to learn new skills or carry out pretty wild experiments all at the same time.  

Well that is exactly what I have done with regards to my current assignment.  Let me explain on the 03/03/2012, I once again tagged along with Daz from www.drbrallysport.co.uk and attended another rally event.  The problem is folks is that to Daz and his mates then being a photographer does not really mean anything to them, I mean to them then everyone is a photographer, even them, as all they have to do is press the button on their i-phone and hey presto just like you they are a photographer too.

 So on this assignment I thought to my-self right you are going to have to think outside the box on this one mate.  So I decided that I should A)  Learn the skill of panning,  B)  Tell the story of the day,  C)  Work with with one speedlite or two.  I set my cam to 60th of second, installed my DSLR onto a monopod and off I went to learn the art of panning. 

After about an hour shooting panning (wise) then I quickly did learn that panning is not just only hard but it is also a pretty boring part of photography that I my-self in the future will not be shooting to much of.  So off I went to become a little bit more artistic with my shots, there is one shot that I got and I have to say it is one of my fav, a bored young lad was wasting time in the service area simply by sitting on some tyres.  Before he had noticed I had sized the moment of opportunity and made the shot and had captured exactly what has got to be my fav images from this assignment.

Look guys I don't want to bore you all to much so sign of this blog with, then enjoy the images.

Gaz aka Strober