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Some Video from Way South

From last February 2007.

http://www.vimeo.com/821013

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the disclaimer is at the bottom below the movie:

This is a very rough cut with little editing. A slow start north of the South Orkney Islands. There is some profanity, nudity with people drinking, lying, speaking frankly from the heart and people pulling your leg.... there are no titles but you'll get the idea. View at your own risk. Any resemblance of the characters to real life persons is purely coincidental. Argentina, Falklands, South Georgia Island, and Estancia Alicura will all be added in later edits. This is just to give everyone a taste of an experience of a lifetime. It was extraordinary.

I hope to finish this video before January 2009 as I continue to learn Final Cut Pro Studio.  This edit is just under 59 minutes.... down from 11 hrs.

This was shot on a Canon GL-2, and I'll be taking my Canon XH-A1 HD cam on the next trip in January 2009.

Enjoy. - Rusty

View to the South

One year ago this evening I returned from my month long trip to South America and Antarctica.  So while I was working on the long delayed video of the trip I did some frame grabs that were taken with the idea I would want them in the future.  That future arrived today.  The image is of my last glimpse of the Melchior Islands off the coast of the continent Antarctica as we headed north.  The fact that I could get this image at all was amazing to me.  As we left the passage between the islands clouds covered our departure.  However hours later, probably 25 miles away, the clouds had lifted and the bright sun peeked through under them.  The only camera I had in my hand for those few minutes was my Canon GL-2 video.  So maximum zoom, braced against a bulkhead of the rolling ship, I steadied for as many seconds as I could hold my breath.  A year and four frame grabs later, with a lot of help from Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom, and Genuine Fractals 5.0, I got a pretty good shot for the web.  Just not as good as one of my shipmates with his 500mm.

Photoshop World 2007 in Las Vegas

Photoshop World was over today.  I saw several familiar faces, met a few new folks, and learned a few new things.  Curiously most of what I learned this time was about video.  Time Lapse.... and it really looks fun in Photoshop to export SLR images to HD video.  Can't wait to try it.  Meanwhile, I have set my sights high, and these instruments I saw on the trip here are the tools to do just that.  The Very Large Array, west of Socorro, New Mexico.

Upgrading hardware

New tools to bring the world home (and sell it's conservation) is my Canon XH-A1

I am still editing the output from the Canon GL-2 of South Georgia and Antarctica, but this will step up the quality to High Definition.

B&H Photo has been outstanding in their help.  Highly recommended.