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Solicite for Blackbeard as Jacksonvilles Newest 2010 Artificial Reef
I see the Jacksonville Offshore Fishing Club soliciting to have Blackbeard placed offshore Jacksonville, Florida as an artificial reef. Now that the cat is out. This is one of our next hopefulls. About one month ago, a team went to visit Blackbeard. I took video and pictures, while others surveyed the vessel. She’s in really great shape considering her age. Built back in the latter 1950’s, she served Mayport as a ferry to suttle motoriized vessles from one side of the St. Johns to the other. Today she sits and has been sitting for a number of years at the Green Cove docks along the intercoastal. Here is a post from a member of the Jacksonville Offshore Fishing Club, JOSFC. http://www.firstcoastangler.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/topic/213/gonew/1.html We need your support and donations. You may visit www.TISIRI.org for more … Read entire article »
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Live Feed BP Oil Gushing
Live Webcam of Riser Flow BP continues its work to collect oil by the riser insertion tube tool (RITT) containment system. Once on the drillship Discoverer Enterprise, the oil is then being stored and gas is being flared. Watch Live Video of the BP Oil Catastrophe. Check out other BP Videos of the event. … Read entire article »
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Videography Tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 4 Housing and Lighting Lighting is important. Everyone in the industry knows this. You can have the most fantastic camera and housing but without lighting, you can not get the video to look colorful. Videos come out dark in nature with very little color if any at all, depending on depth, sea conditions, etc. So what type of lights should you buy? What features do lights come with? How much will they cost? These and other questions are good questions and the only way to find out is to try. Renting is an option. Rent until you find what you like, then buy. There are a number of places that rent video equipment. It may be a little pricey, but a lot less pricey than purchasing new. I purchased … Read entire article »
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Videography Tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 3 White Balance White balancing is calibrating your video camera to capture color as accurately as possible. The idea is you tell the camera which color it sees is actually white, letting the electronics adjust everything else using white as the base. We’ve all seen video that have not been properly white balanced. Example is shooting outdoors, then walk indoors, the video may appear reddish/orange. If filming inside, walking outside may make the picture appear bluish or when videoing underwater and the video appears bluish. Almost monotone in color. The color temperature of sunlight is higher than incandescent light, which has a low color temperature. That’s why sunlight looks whiter, bluish than indoor lighting which looks yellow/orangish. When you walked outside with the video camera, the camera was adjusted for … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 2 Color Where to start… Physics! Understanding refraction and absorption. The light spectrum from Red to Violet. When entering the water column, you will notice one of the first colors to disappear is red. Red or green/blue are common filter colors to compensate for the loss of a spectrum of colors lost by water absorbing the wavelength of that color. For example, if looking through the lens with a red filter, from 5 feet of depth things will appear reddish. Continue down the water column and that red you see begins to disappear and the objects begin to appear more natural in color. Red or something close to red is a very common filter. Looking at the graph on the right ->> you see at around 15 feet, you begin … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 Tip 1 Panning Getting the shot. When I am looking for/at something to video I try to see it in my mind as a movie that is playing. I try to envision how the video will appear to the viewer. This allows me to frame the shot in ways that will hopefully, through editing provide the wow effect. For example: While looking upwards, pan a school of fish at the same pace the fish are swimming. If they are swimming towards you, even better. While panning with the fish, use a zoom in or zoom out near the end of the pan to add that period to the effect and as a aide in fading into the next scene during editing. Here is an example: [xr_video id=”bd0dc0594d164cba9c5e83084ae95d09″ size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
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Videography tips and Techniques
Issue 1 May 18, 2010 This is my first post on underwater videography tips and techniques. I will post my experiences and observations while filming under water. I hope the notes will serve me in the future as a reminder of things to do while filming as well as serve as a reference for those introduced to the idea of making underwater films, documentaries. I will document my observations and experiences of what it takes to make great underwater video. Areas I would like to cover are: goals and objectives, equipment, configurations, lighting, cameras types and features, housings, buoyancy, gas management, angles, color, white balance, timing, framing, editing and more. Stop by to read the updates of becoming a great underwater videographer. … Read entire article »
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