Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Hywel on December 30, 2015, 09:42:41 am
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Hi,
On 1st January 2015 I set myself a project: document the changing seasons on the top of Plynlimon, a mountain local to me in the Cambrian range in mid-Wales.
I thought I'd try doing a video 360 degree panorama every month through the year. It sorta ballooned into a 12-month video diary come visual poem about the mountain.
If you have 20 minutes and feel like a bit of a chill-out and relax, please take a look and let me know what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lceUIPvaDVs
I started with a wobbly mini plastic tripod on top of the trig point; by the end of the year I was hauling the biggest tripod Gitzo would sell me plus a fluid head plus a motorized pan platform up the damn mountain to get some decent footage. Turns out Plynlimon is WINDY and that's why the footage is a bit shaky at the start! I know it is a little slow to get started too- I wanted to keep the purity of the 360 panorama concept for January, and besides I didn't have any other footage from that month and didn't want to cheat.
I know it is not BBC Nature Department quality but I had a lot of fun shooting it, including a few summer nights spent camping out at the top with the whole mountain to myself. Heaven! :-)
Cheers, Hywel
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Other than the technical problems you mention in your post, I think that you did a phenomenal job. There are some amazing shots in that video. I do have 1 suggestion, though. I think that you could have cut the traveling shots. I assume they are there for the purpose of some kind of transition, but the constant changing of the camera position is jarring. Overall, I really like the work you did. Some more night shots would be awesome too.
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Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed the video of this high country depicted in the changing seasons.