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20. Life in Haiti-Canon 5D MKII & Glidetrack
1 year ago
Life in Haiti was shot on the Canon 5D MKII and Glidetrack shooter.

Lenses used:
Canon 24mm f2.8
Canon 50mm f1.8
Canon 70-200 f2.8


Music by: George Fenton from Planet Earth
Name: Namibia - The Lions and the Oryx

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Featured on Digital Cinema Foundry
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  • Chris Beaumont plus 1 year ago
    Excellent work.

    Couple questions ...

    1. How was the Glidetrack Shooter - would you recommend it? Any foibles?

    2. How did you do the gentle slow mo? Shot at 30fps and conformed to 24?

    Looking forward to your next film ...
  • Thanks Chris! The Gledtrack works great but once you put a heavy lens on it it can get tricky to use. I converted it all clips to 24P in cinema tools which slows them down a little.
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  • Brenno Castro plus 1 year ago
    Absolutely beautiful!!

    Amazing shots!

    Congrats!
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  • Jonathan Kayser plus 1 year ago
    Love the work guys... gorgeous footage! Stunning clarity.
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  • Michael Marks 1 year ago
    Looks Great!!! Can you tell more details on the glidetrack?
    Is it the .5 or 1m
    sd or hd
    did you use it on just a tripod (which one?) or do you need a second stick to make it stable
    How is it for handheld?

    Beautiful Work!! and thanks for sharing the details
  • Thanks Michael,
    We used the 1000mm track with a heavy duty tripod with the 501 HDV head, I wouldn't go any smaller than that for track size. There were a few incidents where the system almost tipped over due to that 70-200 lens I could have use a mono pod but it was all run and gun type of shooting. The handheld works great they just need to make a shoulder pad or something!

    ~Chris
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  • langustart plus 1 year ago
    Amazing
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  • Justin Evidon plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful work. The dust bunnies were distracting, but I suppose the conditions made it difficult to avoid getting crap on the sensor. Were you shooting for a non-profit org., or did you just go down there for personal shooting?
  • Yeah, I wasn't happy myself when I got back and saw that stuff on the sensor... We were shooting for several non profit organizations.
  • Mark Jacinto 1 year ago
    I didn't notice any dust bunnies. Can you point em out so I can know what to look for in my own work?
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  • MH Productions plus 1 year ago
    So this is the future of video. The ability to create cinematic images in a run and gun package. This video really does show the power of the DSLR revolution.
    Job well done!
    I'm wondering what types of filters you use shooting in bright daylight?
  • Thanks MH Productions!
    Everything was raw lenses.
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  • DaVincicode plus 1 year ago
    What a nice job. Your video confirmed to me how great the 5D Mark II is as well as the Lens you use. Could you tell me your feelings on the 5D Mark II when shooting with it? Thanks and great job again.
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  • Nathaniel Bluedorn 1 year ago
    I love the way you gave us eye-contact with the people - it gives us the feeling we know what they're thinking.
  • Cory Taylor 1 year ago
    All you think about is people Nathan.
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  • Nigel Morrison 1 year ago
    amazing footage! how did you make it so wide? and is there a name or phrase for that?
  • Thanks, I did a crop in Quicktime 7
  • Jeremiah Stanley 1 year ago
    What were the measurements of the crop?
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  • Robert (RJ) Clarke 1 year ago
    This is gorgeous.
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  • Dom 1 year ago
    nice!
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  • jen 1 year ago
    Amazing - very well done
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  • BZL Film 1 year ago
    what profile style use? color or MBL? Amazing!!! Blessings
  • All CC was done in Final Cut Pro.
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  • Rik Shipley 1 year ago
    wow amazing shots, looks stunning
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  • perezvila™ 1 year ago
    I really liked the focus and DOP.
    How did you work with these ppl? did you asked to stare at you, did it happen naturally? both?
    they all knew you were shooting them? i;m a photographer , and i still find some problems when it comes to documentary work.

    Congratulations.
  • The people were very interesting to work with, some of them got very mad at me for trying to take there pictures while others wanted money and some didn't care. It was very smooth overall just learned a few words a creole and used my hands and people got the point what I wanted them to do.
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  • FStoppers plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic work!
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  • twelve o'clock plus 1 year ago
    Great m8!
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  • Yannick Barthe plus 1 year ago
    Congratulations ! Great work !
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  • Gerald Salam plus 1 year ago
    Nice work capturing my people. Well done!!
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  • Mario Toscani pro 1 year ago
    Fantastic video, great work!!!
    Everything is right, shots, edit and music.
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  • Cellar Media plus 1 year ago
    Excellent work guys. Keep it up.
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  • Jim Miller 1 year ago
    Very beautiful images and nice camera work. I found it a bit unsettling though with the music. When I hear that music I see sweeping, beautiful image from Planet Earth, yet what I'm watching is the plight of those poor people. Perhaps some narrative about their resiliency despite all the destruction would make me feel less like a voyeur.
  • Jack Offord 1 year ago
    I agree Jim, the music makes it feel like a wildlife documentary - too much 'us and them', it made me feel a little uneasy.
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  • Olof Storm plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic!!
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  • Steve Savage 1 year ago
    Stunning video! Great job!
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  • monso plus 1 year ago
    is amazing video.great camera the best!!!
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  • Nathan Swan plus 1 year ago
    Very powerful. The combination of the music, composition and the smooth panning are just brilliant. Can't wait to get my Glidetrack rig.
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  • rickflick 1 year ago
    Beautiful images. Congrats!
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  • Justo Valdes plus 1 year ago
    Everything is right, shots, edit and music
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  • Zenus Film plus 1 year ago
    amazing shots! what glidetrack did you used, because mine supports 10 kg without problems!
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  • Aurélien Le Roux 1 year ago
    If I found it sometimes using too much emphasis, I find the parts with men and women at work striking. Great work.
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  • Jeremiah Fry plus 1 year ago
    Truly inspiring! I had the opportunity to go to Haiti a week after the quake. What I like most about this, is that you captured the beauty of the people, and the culture within the wreckage. Fantastic job.
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  • Excellent, beautiful and moving.
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  • Charlie Spikes plus 1 year ago
    GREAT!!! very moving... Would love to help if ever in the Dallas area for a job.
    Charlie
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  • Jeremie Tronet plus 1 year ago
    beautiful, very nice shot !! congratulation
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  • Edricism 1 year ago
    Really stunning images, made all the more poignant with the wistful soundtrack... Great job!
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  • Martin Franke 1 year ago
    so beautiful! congrats.
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  • Mark Jacinto 1 year ago
    Great stuff. What shots did you use the 24mm?
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  • Man, that is so good!
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  • Thank you for this.
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  • BumKi Cho plus 1 year ago
    Very nice work. I just hope the work you did will be used to help Haiti through non-profit organizations you mentioned. I understand this is vimeo, but can we focus a little bit more on Life in Haiti part not so much on 5d mkII, Glidetrack, or lenses?
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  • phillipj. woods plus 1 year ago
    dunno how i feel about this. you guys ran up on haiti with your glidethis, md that, super sexy lenses and super cool shots...

    i hope you all didn't do this just to say you were the first to shoot some "cool looking shit!" over in haiti...
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  • Dima Moga 1 year ago
    Very well,but it's looked better if you added some layers,more contrast!
    Beautiful moment 01:03...
    Good work man)
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  • creative-control 1 year ago
    Indeed lovely shots. Technically great, very artistic. However, the majestic music was intrusive. Sometimes I'm not sure about some of the shooting coming out of Haiti of late, as destruction and poverty can be very photogenic, but do not need dolly shots or sweeping scores to add mood or impact - in my opinion.
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  • Igor Masera 1 year ago
    Loved it! So gentle, yet crude. A sense of persistence, despite poverty and destruction.
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  • mothlight plus 1 year ago
    Amazing shots. Would have love to hear the sounds through the music . Did you capture any ambience?
    Excellent timing too.
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  • Johan Hallén 1 year ago
    Stunning shots! You get kind of disappointed why you bought a videocam, 5 months ago...
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  • Paulo Menelau plus 1 year ago
    Impressionante! Parece que foi realizado com uma Arriflex.
    As DSLR são o futuro para filmes de curta metragem e baixo orçamento.
    Parabéns!
    Paulo
    Recife-Brasil
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  • Phillip McReynolds plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful. Very nice cinematography (especially for run and gun) and nice editing & cc. Soundtrack works well.
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  • Matt gonzales 1 year ago
    I fell said for them
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  • Josip Matić 1 year ago
    Is 501 head enough for holding 70-200 2.8 lens with camera or is it better to get 503?
    Ou yes ... amazing video! :)
  • I would go with the 503.
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  • Pier Bedard plus 1 year ago
    B R A V O... les images sont puissantes.
    merci
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  • Cody Strout 1 year ago
    Great Work! I love the rawness of what is shown. Yet the picture is stunning. Great colors. The glidetrack adds so much. Excellent!
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  • pairsis 1 year ago
    "I could have use a mono pod but it was all run and gun type of shooting"

    hence the reason for monopod instead of tripod?

    great video.
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  • Kenneth Tyler 1 year ago
    well that's life in Haiti. "echo" Excellent! and BRAVO
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  • phillip Jidbrant 1 year ago
    so great!
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  • Karthik 1 year ago
    I was Moved ... you are more than succesful
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  • Daina Dieva 1 year ago
    Very nice, except one thing though - the dust on the lense in the first sequences. For the rest - beautiful choice of the sequences.
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  • WhosZena 1 year ago
    So sad yet so beautiful.
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  • SUSHI ADV. 1 year ago
    5D MK II is incredible!

    Faces and expressions bi Haitians are so sad. I hope it will be a better life asap!

    I'm talking about it on my blog tatami.sushiadv.com
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  • KAZ PR✪D. 1 year ago
    Very nice shots and spirit...
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  • Joshes 1 year ago
    Amazing! Looks like it was shot on a RED! Good stuff!
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  • Sandy Sandmeyer 1 year ago
    Beautiful video! The people of Haiti are such wonderful, kind, generous people. I can't wait to go back some day. Even in the midst of adversity, life continues.
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  • Benedict Johnson 1 year ago
    Magical. However, I don't understand what a Cannon 5D Mark 2 is?

    Are we talking about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, primarily digital 'stills' camera?
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  • inCINErate FILMS plus 1 year ago
    Man. Envy fills me from head to toe when I watch this sort of thing - I want to be able to head out and film like that myself, just not in that place to do that right now.

    Really good work though.
    Just a question, the camera seemed really sensitive to slight wobble artifacting form the shutter - would this relate to the weight of the lens combined with the glidetrack?

    It's barely noticeable, but maybe more so since it was slowed to 24.

    Really good stuff though!
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  • Federico Torres 1 year ago
    Wow... Just wow. Incredible imagry.
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  • Studio One 1 year ago
    senzational...nice work!
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  • Stunning! - beautiful combination of shots. Amazing atmosphere.
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  • Raphael Alù 1 year ago
    just wonderful!
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  • Rod MacGregor 1 year ago
    Pretty impressive. As good as cinema if not better!
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  • Conor Igoe 1 year ago
    Wow! Simply fantastic work- colours are amazing- any colour correction done? Only one complaint- I hate when something as nice as this just fades out without a propped ending- it would have been nicer if you'd uses a shorter song or longer footage so that when the film ends, you really get a sense that it's over- the way it is now, I'm half expecting it to continue for another few minutes. Other than that, great work.
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  • Robb Montgomery plus 1 year ago
    Why couldn't the audio have also come from the scene?

    No voices from the subjects? No atmospheric or nat sound? No reporting?

    Even a VO track would elevate this to something beyond pretty cinematics.
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  • Germán Luongo 1 year ago
    Felicitaciones.
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  • René 1 year ago
    This film is simply fantastic. The emotion in some of these people's eyes is so powerful.

    Be brave Haiti!
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  • mascaretto 1 year ago
    Excellent.
    Life seems easier with your camera.
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  • Carlos.Rosario plus 1 year ago
    Stunning work!
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  • GATOR8 plus 1 year ago
    Stunning
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  • MontesaEnt. 1 year ago
    Beautiful IMAGES. You captured the Haitian people in an epic way. Awesome keep it up.
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  • Amazing work.
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  • Mark Svoboda plus 1 year ago
    Really nice images. Where did the music come from?
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  • Evan Felts plus 1 year ago
    great composition. good work.
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  • Wayne Herrschaft plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful job! I love the emotion that you captured on the people who's lives have so dr.astically changed
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  • Chris Roth 1 year ago
    Great work... I'd change the music.. just me... Its just too Planet Earth... almost seems like you are likening them to animals (Im sure you are not) Try adding some Erik Satie!!
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  • AhDee 1 year ago
    WOW!! & WOWs!!!

    I'm speechless!! What a great work!!
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  • Jareau Almeyda 1 year ago
    I posted this on twitter and Facebook. People need to see this. Good work guys!
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  • Sergio HD51 1 year ago
    Well done!
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  • JK 1 year ago
    oh wow! these people man....

    I really can't imagine what it feels like to rebuild such a torn place. you really did a good job capturing emotion here.

    and my opinion is that this song makes it stronger. it is always good to show the beauty of a place also, helps to stay optimistic. you've succeeded at a lot of things and hope your just as happy with it.
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