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81. Sao Miguel - the Azores
1 year ago
UPDATE: There is now an ungraded version available: vimeo.com/12448634
May 2010, I spent 11 days on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. It was supposed to have been 15 days but the volcanic ash from Iceland shot down the airport in Ponta Delgada (Sao Miguel). So, the first four days of my vacation were spent waiting / hoping for change, in Lisbon.
I love planning vacations and this vacation had been 'underway' for over a year. I use Google maps / Google Earth to 'scout' locations (see: pixelviking.com/blog/2010/2/17/sao-miguel-azores-here-i-come.html), so 75% of everything you see in this video is from locations that I found via the Panoramio images in Google Earth. The rest are chosen 'on location'.
I chose to stay at Furnas Lake Villas furnaslakevillas.pt after seeing their website. Who wouldn't enjoy that? Well, I did anyway... :)
Had I had the extra money, I would have rented a bigger car than the small Nissan Micra, which turned out to be too small for the gravel roads, especially since the winter had been very wet and the roads were in bad condition. I could of course just have stayed on the 'real' roads but what's the fun in that :)
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I hope these 9 minutes and 28 seconds don't feel too long. I did my best to push the camcorder to its limits and the work in post also went beyond what I've ever done before. I hope that you at least get a good idea about what there is to see in this 'almost' paradise...
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Tech stuff:
Sony PMW-EX1R ...camcorder
Manfrotto 535 MPRO ...tripod legs
Manfrotto 503HDV ...fluid head
Manfrotto 682B ...monopod
Singh-Ray LB ColorCombo ...warming polarizer (77mm filter)
Sony Vegas Pro 9.0e
Magic Bullet Looks
proDAD Mercalli
May 2010, I spent 11 days on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. It was supposed to have been 15 days but the volcanic ash from Iceland shot down the airport in Ponta Delgada (Sao Miguel). So, the first four days of my vacation were spent waiting / hoping for change, in Lisbon.
I love planning vacations and this vacation had been 'underway' for over a year. I use Google maps / Google Earth to 'scout' locations (see: pixelviking.com/blog/2010/2/17/sao-miguel-azores-here-i-come.html), so 75% of everything you see in this video is from locations that I found via the Panoramio images in Google Earth. The rest are chosen 'on location'.
I chose to stay at Furnas Lake Villas furnaslakevillas.pt after seeing their website. Who wouldn't enjoy that? Well, I did anyway... :)
Had I had the extra money, I would have rented a bigger car than the small Nissan Micra, which turned out to be too small for the gravel roads, especially since the winter had been very wet and the roads were in bad condition. I could of course just have stayed on the 'real' roads but what's the fun in that :)
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I hope these 9 minutes and 28 seconds don't feel too long. I did my best to push the camcorder to its limits and the work in post also went beyond what I've ever done before. I hope that you at least get a good idea about what there is to see in this 'almost' paradise...
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Tech stuff:
Sony PMW-EX1R ...camcorder
Manfrotto 535 MPRO ...tripod legs
Manfrotto 503HDV ...fluid head
Manfrotto 682B ...monopod
Singh-Ray LB ColorCombo ...warming polarizer (77mm filter)
Sony Vegas Pro 9.0e
Magic Bullet Looks
proDAD Mercalli
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I'm not sure just how specific you want the answer but all titles start fading in 12 frames after the clip's cross-fade has ended and end the fade-out the same frame that a new clip's cross-fade begins - if that makes sense.
The clips / scenes are (almost) all six seconds long - the cross-fades last 36 frames. I count frames when I edit and rarely edit to the music. I need a much faster PC, before I can edit like that.
I just want to edit with full resolution video quality when editing :). That wish might just come true this week, when my new video editing PC arrives (courtesy of my employer). It's a 6 core Extreme monster: pixelviking.com/links/
That should be fun... :p
Nice work mate!
It is a really beautiful island and i think your video shows it in "full beauty".
In my mind Açores are green, but the colors you gave it go really well with it's mood!!!
Wonderful!
=)
Yet there was one piece of crucial information about the Azores climate you missed: precipitation in Furnas is 2,500 mm a year, cloud cover and humidity, accordingly.
Furnas is a paradise to visit but, together with Sete Cidades, it has the worst climate of Sao Miguel for a hotel.
See my videos (shot the same time as yours) for the best climate of the Azores to stay, just a few miles southwest from Furnas (from Ribeira das Tainhas, just east of Vila Franca do Campo, until Caloura), where it rains 25% as much as in Furnas and the sun shines twice as long.
The music represents me (a lot) more than it does Sao Miguel but I felt it had a perfect pace for my images and pace-wise it went very well with the experience I had there.
Sao Miguel can be both extremely slow (siesta in the small towns) and extremely hectic (people driving like crazy on the narrow and winding roads).
The clarinet (if that's what it is) represents the people who honked their horns at me and made gestures :) and the meditative parts are the landscapes and animals. You even hear sounds that could be whale sounds and there's a feeling of being under water at times.
I don't think the 'normal' viewer picks up all this but I hope it makes sense and comes together in the big picture.
Music may have been chosen a bit differently (warmer), grading was nice...
Thanks for sharing. Nice shoot!
I'll see if I can make it three weeks next summer (2011)... Let me know if you want to come :D
I want to visit the other 8 islands as well...
This place and especially the remaining 8 islands are as far from civilization as you will come unless you are
into the hardcore stuff... :D
Makes me want to visit.
Next time will probably be in October, so that I can visit the Jazzfestival. Not this year, though.