#fixed-observation

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Petit Paris

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -- Ernest Hemingway

I was lucky enough to live in Paris as a young man and returned there last fall to make this video. My girlfriend and I filmed this from the Eiffel Tower, Tour Montparnasse, Notre Dame and Arc De Triumph. There were lots of long lines for these attractions so we passed the time by kissing in Paris, so I can't complain.

I want to thank my sister for letting me use her camera and stay with her while I made this video.

MUSIC: "Raindrops" by: Cillo

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Every shot had to be stabilized because I was only using a gorilla grip, except at the Tour Montparnasse who let me use a tripod and 800mm lens. The distortion due to air quality on the long lenses was pretty bad, and I couldn't shoot in 5K RAW to achieve 3 or 4 pictures a second, so I had to shoot in a lower JPEG. Only the opening shot was filmed in RAW and the quality is noticeably different. So, I didn't have very good negatives to begin with and because of the quick interval I had flicker to deal with. So, every shot went through a process of stabilization, deflicker, color treatment and the tilt shift effect which I add last.

It's not as simple as just adding blur to the top and bottom to achieve the effect. I spent two weeks testing different ways to change the "texture" of the image. I experimented with some really distorted toy-like effects but eventually settled on this more subtle effect. This was a combination of noise reduction and sharpening.

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First-person Hyperlapse Videos [Volume Caution]

We present a method for converting first-person videos, for example, captured with a helmet camera during activities such as rock climbing or bicycling, into hyperlapse videos: time-lapse videos with a smoothly moving camera.

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inCycle Video: Inside the Sprint Finish on Stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse

inCycle take you into the middle of the peloton and show footage of how the sprinters lock horns on stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse

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GoPro: Pelican Learns To Fly

Shot 100% on the HD HERO3+® camera from http://GoPro.com. Abandoned by his flock, Bigbird the pelican stumbled ashore after a storm and was taken in by the staff of Greystoke Mahale in Tanzania. Watch as Bigbird learns to fly for the first time. To learn more about animal conservation visit: http://rootsandshoots.org/

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First Person Shooting! Fallen Brethren 3-Gun 2013: Stage 6 - Jerry Miculek POV FPS

Equipment: S&W M&P-15 with Vortex Razor Red dot & Vortex Razor HD GEN II JM S&W M&P 9L CORE with Vortex Razor Red Dot Mossberg 930 Semi-auto shotgun with Vortex Razor Red Dot Safariland ELS belt system

www.Miculek.com

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MiG-31 - Artur Sarkisyan [Vomule Warning]

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Mauna Kea Heavens Timelapse

Timelapse of the observatories atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The summit is at an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft and is the premiere site for astronomy in the Northern Hemisphere. As an astronomy graduate student at the University of Hawaii, I've enjoyed excellent access to the facility. Some of my favorite still images of Mauna Kea can be found at sgphotos.com/photostories/maunakea.

This montage was filmed on three nights in April (I was observing on one of the telescopes and would walk outside when things got boring) and four nights during summer 2013. More information (i.e. "What's up with the lasers?" "What gear did you use?") can be viewed at sgphotos.com/portfolio/timelapse/makingmaunakeaheavens/.

More of my timelapse work can be found here and at sgphotos.com/portfolio/timelapse. Please notify me prior to featuring my work.

Music: "All is Violent, All is Bright" by God is an Astronaut.

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Random V - Timelapse

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