Thanks Brian, I was trying to hold the camera way above thier heads on a monopod at that point.

yes, he was really enjoying walking without anyone holding his hand, but he was pretty erratic!

Thank you Todd! This is the first thing I've made since getting a DOF adapter for my HV20. I really like it so far, but it can be hard to use since it inverts the image on the LCD display.

im jw what dof adapter did you get?

I got it from Two Neil! Here's a link to his profile:

vimeo.com/user288537

Wow, thank you! That's a massive compliment considering all of the great work that people post here!

same here !

I'm on it! :)

Blake is never wrong. What's more, he's especially right with this one.

I agree !

Thanks, that is SO awesome to hear. I don't consider myself a professional and I've never edited anything for money, but I would love to one day do it for a living!

Right now I work at a factory making paper-towels, so editing film/video for a living would be like a dream come true!

Roger, thank you!

Being the first time I used the DOF adapter I ended up with a lot of throw-away footage that was out of focus or off-center. While editing though I did find that I liked to throw an entirely out of focus bit in here and there. I'm not sure why, I think maybe just because it seemed to make it feel more spontaneous or "off-the-cuff", but it wasn't something I originally planned to do and if I was more adept with the adapter I'm sure I wouldn't have put any blurry bits like that in.

Thanks again!

I just recently found out that the sound was out of sync on some of the video files I posted and Vimeo's encoding process resycronized the sound.

So anyone who was downloading them would be watching the audio out of sync. If you did download it, sorry about that! It should be fixed now.

I know this was from a while back, but I remembered you saying you were going to download it! :)

Thanks Dan!

The dog, Nacho, is my sister's and according to her Nacho is perhaps a rottweiler/lab mix, but shes not really sure!

I used an HV20 for all of the footage, some of it with a depth of field adapter I purchased from TwoNeil and most of it with the camera mounted on a monopod. I did all of the editing in After Effects.

That was actually achieved from the use of the depth of field adapter I purchased for the HV20. It really allows you to isolate the attention on one subject.

Although it is possible, I didn't apply any "focusing" effects in AE.

I had the camera on a monopod, which is basically just a stick that the camera mounts on the end of and I held it down at ground level pointing up towards my son, Gage, as I walked backwards. You can flip the lcd view finder up, so you can kind of track where your filming, but if it's very sunny, it can be hard to see. Also, the footage comes out upside down because the camera is upside down while doing this, so it needs to be flipped before editing. The same thing can also be done with a tripod with all of the legs collapsed!

Here is a great tutorial by Charlie McCarthy about this technique:

vimeo.com/453536

It's where I got the idea from!

Thanks for the invite!

'a punk' by Vampire Weekend :D

All of the footage was shot with a Canon HV20 and about half of it was shot with a 35mm depth-of-field adapter attached that I purchased from a nice guy called TwoNeil who can be found here:

vimeo.com/user288537

:)