Show me your best dive video

[BubbleBunny]

My best video is probably Turks & Caicos 2004 part 2.

Right click and "save target as" to download

I loved your video! :god: Went to Grand Turk for the first time this summer and loved it! Watching made me wish I were back there. I'm an amateur photographer myself and just learned how to take video streams with my digital camera. Nothing as sophisticated as what you put together but one day…

 

[gonetobaja]

Shot using Sony Z-1 camera
Sea and Sea FX-1 housing
PRISM CCR systems
Neptunic Shark suits

Real footage in HD of a diver getting grabbed by a Humboldt Squid

http://209.242.151.5/seawolves/DancingWithDemons.wmv

GTB

 

[Reeveseye]

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring along with Scubabob and get Southern California some bandwidth time here. These two videos were filmed with my Olympus C-750z digital camera, which is primarily a still image camera but can make Quicktime movies as well. I've since started using a real video camera underwater, but it'll be another couple of days before I have my first footage taken with that camera ready. I'll post it when I do. In the meantime, here are my first two attempts at underwater video via Quicktime recording:

#1:
http://video.mpegnation.com/a001823904302060505174404197.html

#2:
http://video.mpegnation.com/a001664250064051105221332285.html

 

[TRIG]

Amazing, from a still camera. Good composition and music, very watchable, keep up the good work .

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[meekal]

ratZ - the link isn't working for me. all i get is 1 KB file that contains:

[Reference]
Ref1=http://209.242.151.5/seawolves/DancingWithDemons.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Ref2=http://192.168.71.253:80/seawolves/DancingWithDemons.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

Shot using Sony Z-1 camera
Sea and Sea FX-1 housing
PRISM CCR systems
Neptunic Shark suits

Real footage in HD of a diver getting grabbed by a Humboldt Squid

http://209.242.151.5/seawolves/DancingWithDemons.wmv

GTB

 

[meekal]

we're lucky you've decided to move over to the 'dark side'! still photos are for whimps! (hehehehe - JK)

totally awesome VIDS - can't imagine what will come out of a 'REAL' video camera

i'm always trying to learn....

1. your shots are amazingly steady. did you do any post image stabilization? if so, which one?

2. gotta love the "GOT NITROGEN" ending.... what did you use for the DIVE CATALINA effect? vellie vellie schweet!

cheers!

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring along with Scubabob and get Southern California some bandwidth time here. These two videos were filmed with my Olympus C-750z digital camera, which is primarily a still image camera but can make Quicktime movies as well. I've since started using a real video camera underwater, but it'll be another couple of days before I have my first footage taken with that camera ready. I'll post it when I do. In the meantime, here are my first two attempts at underwater video via Quicktime recording:

#1:
http://video.mpegnation.com/a001823904302060505174404197.html

#2:
http://video.mpegnation.com/a001664250064051105221332285.html

 

[CDFDiveMaster]

Awsome!

 

[Reeveseye]

we're lucky you've decided to move over to the 'dark side'! still photos are for whimps! (hehehehe - JK)

Come on now... After 25 years of photography as a hobby, I'm not about to give it up underwater. I still do more photo work than video - at least photos don't take that long to edit into something I consider presentable! But I must admit, video is a lot of fun.

1. your shots are amazingly steady. did you do any post image stabilization? if so, which one?

Nope, no post stabilization. California diving has an advantage over tropical in that you can steady yourself on a rock without worrying about wiping out all the coral beneath your hand. As long as you look at where you're grabbing first, you can hang on and steady your shots. I also wrap a leg up in the kelp sometimes to stay still. But otherwise, I just try to stay swimming forward slowly, which seems to help steady me as well.

2. gotta love the "GOT NITROGEN" ending.... what did you use for the DIVE CATALINA effect?

I can't take credit for "got nitrogen?". It's a play on the "got milk?" commercials we have here in SoCal, and some friends of ours who dive had some shirts made up with that wording over a red/white scuba flag. Both of them were in the group of divers seen in that video, so I included it for them. As far as the effect goes, it's the "horizontal fade" filter in NeroVision Express (I have Pinnacle Studio 9, but I've been too lazy to actaully learn it so far).

 

[zendiver1]

I'll jump in on this one too and show what I have done as well. Some of them are quite large, but well worth the wait.

Let me know what you think: Dive Videos

 

[Bottle Diver]

http://www.advanceddivermagazine.com/Video/Videos.asp

Check out these ones from Advanced Diver magazine.

(Shameless self promotion :59: I've got some currently listed on page 2 under Jellyfish Productions)

-Valerie