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Playing around with a cheap Macro type filter from Hong Kong on the front of the HD7 today and shooting some flowers we have on the window sill. Then I laid over one of my old poems for added interest.

No colour grading at all on this, just the HD7 doing its 'thang'. Got some great shots of the flowers.

Music From Elizabeth, The Golden Age by Rahman and Armstrong again. Buy this soundtrack everyone!
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  • Tracy Lundgren 3 months ago
    I couldn't work out at first what those images were in the thumbnail pic. Wow...macro indeed! Wonderful.
    The poem is gorgeous. Short but says so much.
    Nice work!
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Thankyou!

    always best to leave people guessing for a minute or two,,, he hee

    Looks a bit ropey here on Vimeo unfortunately. The smoothness and richness of the colours seems to be missing. Hey ho. :-(
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  • monso 3 months ago
    very nice.
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Thanks Monso, much appreciated.
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  • rastAsia 3 months ago
    Damn! This is good!
    Feels like a wedding video intro... or outro.
    But don't you think its a bit overexposed?
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    It's a little paler on Vimeo than the hi res one I have on my screen here at home, but actually I was going for a dreamy look. Makes a change from all the dark and moody stuff I usually do!!

    The Russet coloured stamens for instance (at 25 seconds) are deep, rich and vibrant in colour on my screen but on vimeo you can see they look a little washed out. Not sure how to combat this problem.
    Thanks though!
  • rastAsia 3 months ago
    Not too sure what you use for Web Browser. But I did comparison between Firefox and Safari and see that Safari reproduce "Truer" image than Firefox does. It has to do with the built-in color sync in Safari that Firefox didn't have (then). I hear that it'll be made available in Firefox 3 (Beta). Maybe that's the issue?

    But ye.. its a codec compatibility issue as always. H264 have always worked fine for me. But again, that's only one grain reproduced in every 10 that you give it. That's my analogy of compression.

    Forgot to compliment you on the poetry. Its pretty concise but complete. That person must have meant everything.
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Yeah, Safari is ever so slightly richer in colour and certainly smoother. I usually save H.264 also. I gelieve you're right, just a compression thing. And then, Vimeo compress it more don't they?

    Thanks for the comment on the poetry, and the answer of course is, yes.
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  • True AiR 3 months ago
    Wow. Beautiful video, really great job mate :)
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Cheers!
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  • Sam Galvez 3 months ago
    Other great sound tracks that go with this theme: Legends of the Fall
    Gladiator
    Black Hawk Down
    or any by Hans Zimmer
  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Just got Legends of the fall. Excellent, thanks for the heads up on that Sam
  • Sam Galvez 3 months ago
    Wayne - I subscribe to Yahoo music which is about $4 or $5 a month if u pay for a year or 8.99 monthly. There you can sample full music clips from their enourmous music archive. If you like a particular song or album you can download. Tipically songs are $0.75 and albums arounf $8.00. Not sure how it compares in price to I-tunes but atleast you get them in MP3 format. Worth looking intoa!
  • Wayne Avanson 2 months ago
    cheers Sam, Might have a look at that, sounds well handy
    No doubt it'll be dearer this side of the Atlantic though!
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Excellent, I'll check those out. Thanks Sam
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  • vino 3 months ago
    It's a beaut. Congrats. It's amazing how you can get so close.
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  • Wayne Avanson 3 months ago
    Cheers Vino, Much appreciated. Like I say above, just step back a bit, zoom in to the 10x setting and open the aperture. Gives a really nice short depth of field. Sometimes too short!!!
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  • Greg Wallis 2 months ago
    Simply lovely.
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  • Wayne Avanson 2 months ago
    Cheers Greg, much appreciated.
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  • Venture Media Group 2 months ago
    great job - your work carries allot of weight. I am very impressed.
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  • Frederic Vercammen 1 month ago
    Simple but very nice
  • Wayne Avanson 1 month ago
    cheers!
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  • Caner Yolal 16 days ago
    simplicity of love. romantic!
  • Wayne Avanson 16 days ago
    Thanks very much Caner, I can assure you there is soooo much in that tiny poem.
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