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1. Fathers Day fishing

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1 year ago

Footage taken on a quick trip down to the lower south west region of Western Australia. We stayed at Hamelin Bay. A little place consisting of a caravan park and a boat ramp. It is central to some of the most beautiful parts of the South West although can be a bit cold even in summer as you can see.

All footage was shot with the Canon 5D mk2 and a 85mm f1.2 canon lens. That was because my brother was hogging all the other lenses we own. Saved wasting time changing lenses. Music is from "Passion" by Peter Gabriel.

Hope you like it.

Check more of our work at christianfletcher.com.au or christianfletcher.wordpress.com

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Greg Wallis 10 months ago

That's really nice, Michael. The 5D2 is certainly proving a match for the dedicated vid cams; this was impressive footage.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Cheers Greg. It's a great camera but has limitations just as dedicated video cameras have but if you exploit its strengths wow!!!!
Tõnis Liivamägi 10 months ago

Wow, how did you manage to keep the lens open that wide? My 85 1.2 won't allow me to shoot with aperture that wide in broad daylight. As you can not focus with twisted/locked 85mm lens as it can not manually focus then. But as I see you didn't do any focus racks of handheld stuff can I assume you locked your focus, set the aperture and twisted the lens to shoot with wide apertures like 1.4 to 2.8? Let us now.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

You guessed it Tonis. Hope I dont stuff up my camera. Can use neutral density filters to drop the light and open up the aperture but add grain to the footage.
Steve Muskie 10 months ago

This is very enjoyable. I would not have guessed that you had only one lens available to shoot it. The music fits well with it.
Ashley Harrison 10 months ago

This was great! And adding on to Tonis's comment I actually liked that the focus was locked. I sometimes get annoyed when every other shot the focus is pulled/pushed. Just my opinion.

Beautiful colors!
Patrick Frauchiger 10 months ago

This is brilliant! I like it.
Eugenia Loli-Queru 10 months ago

Don't forget to add the tags "HD" and "5D" so more people find it and view it.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks for the tip Eugenia. After checking I realised that I was not entering my tags correctly into the computer so none of my vids had tags. I have fixed that now.
Frederic Vercammen 10 months ago

Beautiful stuff man
Ben Wall 10 months ago

amazing
thats dope stuff right there
William Rich 10 months ago

Really nice! I love the lighthouse shots!
John Paluzzi 10 months ago

Great work Michael...I love the camera as well and look forward to more manual control...awesome score by the way...where do you get your music?
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

It's all music I have listened too over the years. Just go through my old CD's and pick whatever suites.
John Paluzzi 10 months ago

Found it...that will teach me to read and not just look at pretty pictures...damn DPs!
robbie conaway 10 months ago

Breath taking footage and music. Was this color corrected?
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Slight tweaking with saturation and contrasts but generally it's straight from the camera.
Davor 10 months ago

Hypnotizing!
Nick Keating 10 months ago

Nice work Michael, wonderful images :)
pierre bedard 10 months ago

Tres belles images et superbe musique, quoi dire de plus, que cette camera me fait encore plus envie.
Merci Michael
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

In English please!!!! sounds like you enjoyed it.
Ultra Canon 10 months ago

Nice
Did you use any filter to get the lens wide open?
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

No filters adds too much noise/grain. Used the old twisted lens trick.
Matt E 10 months ago

Stunning footage Michael!
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Cheers Matt
Bill Blomgren 10 months ago

Question about the audio -I find that audio recorded by the itty bitty mike on the camera is yucky. Did you use an external source? Great footage....
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Sorry to blow the illusion Bill but sound was faked using Soundtrack Pro effects. Haven't tried an external mic yet but that will come. Thanks for watching.
BumKi Cho 10 months ago

What a beauty! Images, sounds and music wonderfully harmonized.
ZhiC 10 months ago

Beautifully done. Wonderful enchanting mood of the music and rusty colours! Love it

5D2is a legend.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Too right!!!!
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks everyone for commenting so far.
Seawall and Bungalow 10 months ago

lovely!
Martijn Doornenbal 10 months ago

beautiful muted colors! Looks like a nice quite place out there.
Carl Olson 10 months ago

beautiful mood...
Livex G. 10 months ago

My eyes love everything at this movie!!!
Vivian Almonte 10 months ago

Excellent! I love it!
Lighbulb Media 10 months ago

oh...its film? That's why its so beautiful!
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Not film all video shot with the 5dmk2. 1080P straight out of the camera using Prime Canon lenses.
Lighbulb Media 10 months ago

wow...it really conveys the emotions you were going for!
joan 10 months ago

Great one Michael !

Joan
Mark Griffin 10 months ago

Great video, look forward to seeing some more. I have had some fun using a Leica R series lens on mine for full aperture control and have read of a lot of people playing with Nikon lenses one theirs. Mark
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Cheers Mark. We are thinking of using some carl zeiss glass. I'm scared I'm going to break it if I keep detaching the lens.
Pawel B 10 months ago

Wow, this is really an amazing piece of art. Such a beutiful frames, colours and such a delicate movements. Great job. Also seen your photos-congratulations, they're wonderful. Waiting for more.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks Pawel. Thanks for visiting the web site.
Philippe Clairo 10 months ago

Beautiful Michael, your framing is excellent, and in all this piece is very inspiring. The light balance is bang on too, so you haven't used any ND filter on this? Did you turn down the exposure by a notch at all? Also, is the vignetting on the lighthouse natural? I agree with the earlier comments, I am happy to see a piece with no focus change, just nice "motiongraphy" ( I am now proud of inventing a new word to describe photography in motion :-)
Cheers
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

"motionography" I like it. No ND filters. Exposures where set bang on the middle according to the camera but may of dropped it back a little on some of the lighthouse scenes due to the bright cloud action. Vignetting was done in FCP to add some mood. I hate focus pulling I always stuff it up. It's best to concentrate on what your good at. Thanks for watching Philippe.

Mike
The Funky Monkey 10 months ago

I have to agree with everyone here,.. This is an excellent piece of work! ..Loved it!
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Cheers Funk master!!!
Berislav Petrovic 10 months ago

Impressive!! Such nice photography and atmosphere.
Carlton Pleasant 10 months ago

superb stylizations ...
Marcin Winnicki 10 months ago

depth in some moments just breatchtaking, stunning, congrats!!!
Fahad Juma 10 months ago

great work
i would like to get your adivse about the hyberd Vid/still shot cameras ( Nikon D90 & Canon 5D MarII). I think it might limit the movement when shooting in Vid by looking in the view finder and holding a heavy device. Isn't it better to have two cameras one for still ( D-SLR) and one for Vid ( like the sony HD)?
Thanks and i really liked the transition between the slides
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Hi Fahad. I dont know about the D90 but the 5DMK2 has a 3" lcd display on the back of it and it is better than any screens I have seen on any dedicated Video Cameras. It has 5x and 10x magnification for perfect focus. You dont look through the view finder so it gives you the same flexibility as any video camera. Thanks for watching.
arko paul 10 months ago

Very beautiful.........Click on uploaded.tv to be on real TV now.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

No thanks!!!!
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Cheers Britt. You dont do a bad job yourself.
JaconFilm 10 months ago

great footy and audio
Florent 10 months ago

Waooh ! What great and beautiful pictures ! As a photographer, i do very much appreciate...
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks Jaconfilm, dilibau, florent for watching.
Nathan Smith 10 months ago

Thank you, that was beautiful.

I would like the font. It was a perfect choice for this footage.
Kanaloa Surf 10 months ago

Beautiful images!
Mr Truffle 10 months ago

Wow haunting and amazing
Wayne Avanson 10 months ago

Great quality shots Thanks for sharing Michael

Avey
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks Avey. Really like your stuff also. You have a great eye for composition and you editing is top shelf.
Daniele Zedda 10 months ago

Incredible video, truly inspiring.
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks Daniele
craig 10 months ago

That was pure art, very visually pleasing , but more than that it had cohesive feel with the music and the sounds ,excellent work ! Is this something that you set out and plan to do, Or do you arrive at this as you are putting all the pieces together ?
Michael Fletcher 10 months ago

Thanks Craig for watching and enjoying. I sometimes go out with a preconceived idea as to what i'm going to do but in this case I put together what I had and tried to give it some emotion with sound effects and a haunting piece of music. Sometimes it works sometimes its just crap. I'll be posting some more stuff soon. Stay tuned.
Emanuel 9 months ago

Congrats and thanks for posting !

No ND filters for not adding grain, OK. But...

...why didn't you try a method like this one (instead twisting the lens) :

vimeo.com/2530166

?
arun r 9 months ago

haha no words for ur footage! so all audio in postproduction right? only Soundtrack Pro or anything more?? that sea shore is very nice.. keep it up michael..
Nicola Di Marco 8 months ago

looks fantastic
Oğuzhan Karademir 6 months ago

Which compression type u use in final cut ?
Owen Tanner 5 months ago

Looks great, been trying to pin down what it is about the 'style' that makes it so pleasing to the eye. the lack of rack focusing makes everything more like a still image and gives you time to take it in. I think that rack focusing is an over used effect with the shallow depth of field these cameras let you achieve. Nice to see something without this. Gives the pictures more depth, better than following a subject and it always being in focus as your eye tends to follow that and not concentrate on the composition.
Aakash Jain 2 months ago

awesome
Twitching-Eye 2 months ago

i really love the mood this video gives!
the BnW light house scene is truly awesome!