Dan Jones 0 Posted August 26, 2015 (edited) G'day all, I recently came back from a trip to Indonesia and thought I'd share a video I've just finished. Most of the shots are from around the liberty wreck with a few trips further down the coast towards Amed. I'm fairly new to shooting underwater but it's quickly become an obsession that I can't get enough of, hopefully next year I'll be able to fork out for a proper camera/housing. I really love getting into macro. Hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5vgg_dkGBk Edited August 26, 2015 by Dan Jones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Glasseye Snapper 47 Posted August 26, 2015 If this was all shot on GoPro then I want to learn how you do it. What did you use for lighting and why is there such strong vignetting along the edges and corners. Did you use a wet-lens for the close-up shots? Bart Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Jones 0 Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) G'day Bart, Yeah all shot on an old Gopro 3. The quality isn't great but it was really quite fun and simple shooting. I used a simple U frame to mount the Gopro. To that I had a Sola 2000 light attached on a flex line. I mounted a cheap Gorilla Pod plastic tripod to get steady shots with the MacroMate lens from backscatter. I found I lost a lot of good shots due to the Gopro being full auto. It would bump up the exposure when I shot against the dark substrate. The Spot metering I found worked sometimes but I gave up on it as the settings are a pain to navigate through. I edited in the vignette for a couple reasons. The corner sharpness was very poor (not that the video is sharp at all), I found adding a vignette added some more feeling, bring more attention to the subject, solved corner sharpness and helped some of the shots blend better. I know some people don't like vignettes on video but its seemed better to my eye than without. I'd really like to try out the manual setting on the 4, I feel it would perform much better with lighting. But I think I will wait for the Gopro 5 or perhaps save some cash for a real setup. Edited August 27, 2015 by Dan Jones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TightLines 7 Posted September 6, 2015 Very nice. I personally liked the vignetting. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
