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Nick Hope

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#331373 First Place Video - Classic - SEA International 2013

Posted by Nick Hope on 14 May 2013 - 10:32 PM

Very nice work Dustin. Full frame looks so challenging for macro because of shallow depth of field but you did good. Great lighting. Great music.

 

Suggestions for improvement...

 

Use some straight cuts instead of cross-dissolving every single transition.

 

And move your copyright notice right out into the corner. It's distracting where it is. You'd still qualify for statutory damages under US copyright law if someone crops it out.

 

Also if you're using a royalty-free CC licence, make sure it's CC-BY and not CC-BY-ND, which doesn't cover syncing to music, or CC-BY-SA, which requires you to share your video under the same licence.

 

What did the stargazer eat?




#329422 Panasonic GH3 is (almost) here

Posted by Nick Hope on 08 April 2013 - 10:18 PM

Nauticam have told me: "We provide only the acrylic dome ports for NA-GH3 housing."  :(

 

(In case anyone missed it: pics of the housing)

 

Anyone at NAB?




#322867 Diving in Bali (720p)

Posted by Nick Hope on 17 December 2012 - 09:00 AM

You may have seen my 54-minute Bali DVD on the net before at 480p, but I have breathed new life into it by improving the colour correction and upscaling from 576i to 720p (by a fancy AviSynth method) for YouTube. At the size embedded size in the forum it really needs to be seen at 720p, which you need to turn on with the cog symbol at the bottom right.

You can view the common and scientific names of all the marine life by turning on the captions under the CC button.

[youtubehd]uCRBxtQ55_Y[/youtubehd]


#322655 A bit of everything from Manta to ladybug,Komodo,Indonesia.

Posted by Nick Hope on 13 December 2012 - 11:39 PM

Nice work Nu.

I think a lot of your macro shots could be improved by adding some sharpening (e.g. seahorse, pygmy seahorse, nudis). Ideally that would be applied after scaling to 720p.


#322141 Gulp!

Posted by Nick Hope on 07 December 2012 - 12:02 AM

6 hours! Maybe it was a sponge. What did you breathe?


#321710 Sony FS100 white balance at depth

Posted by Nick Hope on 29 November 2012 - 08:30 PM

The green channel on that last shot is actually clipped, meaning you can't retrieve detail from the highlights. You want to be doing something during image capture to stop that happening. Sony Vegas Pro scopes:

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I would start with putting curves something like this on it:

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Which gives this:

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Not right but at least you can see more detail in the highlights in the sand.


#319662 Reef Life of the Andaman - THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Nick Hope on 01 November 2012 - 12:12 AM

I decided to release my 116-minute documentary about the marine life of Thailand and Burma in its entirety on YouTube.

This was a real labour of love for me, and represents a pretty big chunk of my life, so I thought I'd give it its own thread rather than tacking it to the end of my thread about the series. I hope that's OK.

Feel free to share and embed it anywhere.

It looks best at 720p, and there are a number of closed caption options under the CC button including the names of all the species and dive sites.

Enjoy!

[youtubehd]8ncUVddkK3Q[/youtubehd]


#318607 Sipadan with Canon 5dmk2

Posted by Nick Hope on 17 October 2012 - 09:12 PM

Nice video Seok.


#318403 Anti Shark Week Video

Posted by Nick Hope on 14 October 2012 - 07:50 PM

"Tens of millions".


#318334 Sony NEX-FS700 housing project

Posted by Nick Hope on 13 October 2012 - 09:19 PM

It felt just like we were seeing Jacques Mayol in The Big Blue, surfacing with the world record.


#317841 Sony NEX-FS700 housing project

Posted by Nick Hope on 04 October 2012 - 08:17 PM

Looks ready for the Mariana Trench.


#317762 Fish ID anyone?

Posted by Nick Hope on 03 October 2012 - 07:58 PM

Lol you're welcome. I should have stated juvenile, or at least youngish, but a Google Images search for that species throws up loads of specimens coloured like this on the first page so I thought you'd find them pretty quick. The really really young ones are coloured differently.


#317350 Underwater Timelapse

Posted by Nick Hope on 27 September 2012 - 08:42 PM

I see you backed away from it as it approached you Richard. What a chicken ;)


#314747 Lighting on Night Dives

Posted by Nick Hope on 17 August 2012 - 03:49 AM

Sometimes I just turn off the lights and wait for the stuff to go off, then start again.

I do this a lot. It's also good for scaring the s**t out of other divers.


#312928 Reef Life of the Andaman

Posted by Nick Hope on 17 July 2012 - 06:17 AM

Part 13 features various types of crustacean found in the Andaman Sea: Spiny lobsters, shrimps, and at the end, a couple of very aggressive little swimming crabs.

[youtubehd]GYWtj5q_MVc[/youtubehd]


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