Beautiful shots as always Steven

Great shots! The song is beautiful!
Does your wife every get mad that you never put down the camera? Mine sure does.

Incredible stuff, Stephen. The music was a perfect fit too.

Beautiful work Steven, and a beautiful family too!

Very nice. This is where I first saw the Pacific Ocean. I love the wildness of it and the light. You brought back some wonderful memories.

Beautiful. And you're so right about the (artificial) video sharpness ......

great video.wow professional..............love colors.......

This is awesome camera work! Everything about it is great.

unbelievable. where was the music from?

without words...

I loved the striking images of sea and shore The diffusion filter and settings made it look more like film than video. Nice technique. . . . must go out and try it!

I also appreciate your willingness to include your family in your clips. We should never by shy about including those we love in what we do. You do it very well.

So beautiful!

nice work. i especially loved the sunset shots.

Soooooo good.

Another excellent work, Steven. Makes me wish I had a family to shoot!

Steven - you are my favorite teacher learning videofilming... thank you!

Would you mind telling us what matte box works well with the XH A1? I have been looking at several different ones, but the range in price and quality is overwhelming. I have no idea how to choose other than price.

wonderfull

wonderful video. Close call with the water, I've experienced the same about 2 months ago shooting some surfers. Its always great being able to keep moments of time of your own family.

A gift for the eyes and ears

Beautiful! I loved this. Thank you so much for sharing with us all.

Wonderful Film! I save all your films, they are so well done. thank you :o)

You can't see me from there Steven, but I'm suddenly jumping up and down!! This is EXACTLY the kind of beautiful finish I'd like to get with my JVC HD7. I'm going to look into softening filters and see what I can rustle up.
I love your framing and the way you catch the light. Also I love the way you let nature do the work of looking great, and you simply catch it is the most sympathetic and cinematic way. That's the gentle hand of the artist… Respect. Gotta go, I want to watch it again.

Avey

I always like your work, I have seen almost your all videos, and all are fantastic!

I have some questions for you about this video, if you would like to share.

Do you intensely put very low light for this video? For example at 00:59, the lady's face is not visible, shirt is blue but look like black, and underneath her shirt she worn I guess purple T-shirt, but while she walking front of camera purple color looks black!

At 02:40, the girl's black clothes are become too black, there is no definition, overall in entire video, dark scene becomes more blackish kind!

What was your setting? Aperture? Shutter speed?

I guess you love to keep your videos more blackish! At what time you captured this video? If it was too bright and good sunny day than this video, should not look like this! After seeing this video, I come to conclusion that this video is actually shot in good bright sunny day, but with low light settings it looks this video taken at evening time!

I don't know but I guess our settings should be very similar to what our eyes can see! For particular this video, the lady with blue shirt, should look blue, by the way do you remember when you shoot this video; the color of lady's shirt was blue?

I guess what we see that should come in picture.

So I was so curious, I seen your all previous videos, but this video, look artificial, sorry to say but I felt this.

But the colors are fantastic though!

Kaushik

Beautful Park. Great film as usual.

Wonderful film! Captured some wonderful intimacy and scenery. You have such a good eye for composition. Really nice.

Hi Steven,

Witch settings did you use for uploading the video with this aspect ratio. I tried the same thing with one of my new video's but that went wrong.

I added this video to the XH-A1 group on VIMEO. I hope you don't mind.

Thanks for sharing on Vimeo,

Gert

Hi Steven,

I would like to know what media you trust putting in your XH A1. I have been using:
Canon DigitalMaster
HDV 63min

I have been searching around and have found many mixed opinions on using different brands etc...

Can I use other brands without damaging the playheads of my XH A1?

Thanks for the great movies. A real inspiration.

Steve.

Steven,

Good man. Thanks for the response. I will try and stick with the tapes I have been using then.

I guess my next question would be, how do you get the cinemascope ratio when filming in 16x9 on the XH A1. This is something I guess I can figure out on my own as time goes on with more experimentation, but on my next outing, I would love to play with the differences in framing etc...

I, like you, have changed my career paths often. I came from being a violinist, to software engineer, to photographer and I am now slowly finding my feet in Video and I am loving every minute of it.

Anyway, thanks for your time Steven,

Take care.
Steve.

Beautiful!

Beautiful artistry Steven!

I have one question. Why did you chose to leave in the sequence at 1:47 ?

Excellent look and feel to this. Guess I'll read up on the Classic Soft filter - I like that look. Did you add anything else in post?

I loved the family on the wooden boatport kind of situation, especially with the music. Reminds me of a good romantic family movie, almost like BRaveheart but then 2008. It has a film look in some scenes, not all of them.

I live in Port Towsend, so i'm pretty familiar with the area. I LOVE the shots of Lake Cresent. Love all your work, too. The music does wonders. You should checkout my video I did of the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend. Pretty new to the HVX and the compression messed it a bit.

What settings do you use for compression?

Really beautiful footage. I can't wait to visit there.. and hopefully work there!