You may be pleased - or maybe not - to know that my posts will again be getting more regular as I am now back home after my 'summer' sailing. I thought I might just give you one more blast of salt air by embedding a very short seafaring video here. It shows my boat Moonshadow rounding the notorious Mull of Galloway in SW Scotland. This headland can be a very nasty place to be in bad weather. On this trip there was little or no wind. Even so, the tide was whipping along and giving me a speed of 11.9 knots - that's a lot in a sailing boat.
The video was shot on my Canon G9 and, even considering the loss of quality of YouTube compression, it has done a pretty good job.
You will notice that some filming techniques are exactly the same as those used for stills photography. Towards the end, notice the slight lowering of the shooting angle in order to get a clearer view of the distant headland between the gear on the back of the boat. This is followed by zooming back to view the wider scene including the foreground - with stills photography, the shutter button would have been pressed to take a picture at each separate stage.
And for those of you who love shooting sunsets - the video finishes with a really spectacular one. We carried on sailing into the night.
16 Aug 2008
Video with Canon G9
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Well, I'm certainly looking forward to more of your blog, Philip! The video was great, but I'm afraid you'd never catch me on a yacht at that speed - or any other, come to that!
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