Slow Motion Sunday - Bay2Breakers Weekend Video
Random shit we did in slow motion. Jinen ate a lot of chips, Pank caused a ruckus... typical weekend.
These are the first real videos I've taken on the new Casio EX-FC100 that I've mentioned before. The quality is a little bit better than it looks on YouTube, especially the part with the cops-- that's in HD.
As all the other reviews mention, this camera requires a lot of light, otherwise it gets really grainy in both videos and still photos. The only reason to buy this camera is for the slow motion video capabilities, especially the 30-210 fps mode where you can transition back and forth between the two speeds. It's so easy and fun to do. Otherwise, it's much cheaper to get a point-and-shoot camera that takes better photos and regular HD videos.
The song I originally chose was Sad Song (RAC Mix) by Au Revoir Simone (download it free here). While messing around with the AudioSwap feature on YouTube, I clicked "I'm feeling lucky..." which is supposed to randomly choose a song from the YouTube library. This is crazy, but the song it came up with was Bodies, by Drowning Pool, I'm not even kidding. The whispering intro even timed up with Jon hitting the water. I thought that was pretty funny, so I had to use the new song even though it makes the rest of the video look like we're trying to be eXTrEmE!!! It's amazing how much difference a song choice can make. Jinen's chip eating action is begging for some thugged out soundtrack.
Supposedly YouTube is in the process of switching the audio track, but right now I'm still hearing Sad Song and seeing ads to buy Bodies on Amazon and iTunes.
Eye-Fi Review - how many months is 2 GB of photos?
I've been using the Eye-Fi since around Sept 2008 and I've only just ran out of space on it. I don't think I've deleted anything off it before, so at this rate I'm guessing I could have shot for a few years, except that I started recording videos from snowboarding. Then again, these stats are skewed because I shot film a lot in the last year.
Honestly, uploading to my computer wirelessly isn't *that* cool, except when I have it set up to upload on the wireless network at work. It saves a copy on my computer at home, and also puts it on Photoshop online so I can edit and post them other places, like blogs an Facebook. The more interesting part is that most of my photos are geotagged, surprisingly, even in places like the beach at Monterey.Now that I'm shooting video, I have to plug in my camera anyway to download those. I have one of the original Eye-Fi cards, not one of the new video-upload capable ones. I'm not really sure what the difference is but I suspect it's hardware. In the past, they've allowed you to upgrade new 'features', either for free, like the faster uploading, or for a fee, like the geo-tagging and hotspot service.
I've used my Eye-Fi card in both my Nikon D100 with the CF adapter and
my Ricoh GRD. It's worked smoothly with both, and I never really
noticed problems with decreased battery life.
Kirkwood - Surprise! Fresh Powder on the Last Day of the Season
This past Saturday when we went to Kirkwood for the final time this season, I was completely prepared for Spring conditions and expecting to cruise around on freshly groomed corduroy. Surprise! There was six inches of new snow from the night before and no lift lines on a bluebird day. I couldn't stop smiling.
I paid for it when I forgot to put on sunblock. My face is still peeling, well, half of it is.
Going down a chute. Jon was learning how to use the camera and cut off video right as I get in the chute.
In some of the pictures, there's still snow on the lens from when I took a tumble in the snow, taking a boring video. The rest of the files wouldn't fit in a single email, so they're in a separate post.
Last Day at Kirkwood (part 2)
Here are the rest of the videos, continued from part 1. I mistakenly thought I could copy and paste the posterous-content markup and paste it in another post. It just shows up as text even though the HTML editing view shows the same markup. *shrug*
I'm also looking for a way to combine two of the automatically generated galleries in to one. Because of the order the files were attached in the email, with a video in the middle of the list, posterous created two galleries in a single post.
Jon going down the chute. Taking these videos is a learning experience. One, with the wide-ish angle lens, I need to get closer. Two, most of these videos are pretty boring, even to me. I think it would help if I chased him down the chute.
Jon. FS boardslide. Another learning opportunity. Sidney was figuring out how to take videos on my camera and accidentally ended it prematurely. The Ricoh GRD has great physical UI controls... but only for still pictures. The video capabilities are definitely a second class citizen on the list of features.
This is lame because I knew I was leaning too far back first thing, but couldn't correct it. Why couldn't Sidney have cut off the end of this one instead of Jon's? heh. After this video, I was so frustrated that I straight-lined the next two jumps in a row and finally got enough speed for a decent shifty+stalefish. You'll have to trust me :p There no evidence, naturally.
Jon's Sponsor Me Video
If you're interested in sponsoring Jon, email him at fail@fail.com
Video editing courtesy of Tim. Thanks.
That sky looks beautiful.
This is a totally boring video of snowboarding, until I eat it for no real reason. The sky looks so pretty in the shot.
Jon and the box.
I was planning to edit these two together with this one in to a video, but who am I kidding? I'm never going to get around to that.
Closing day at Sierra - April 19, 2009
I originally posted this to see what posterous would do if I included multiple photos and videos in an email.
These are all from closing day at Sierra this season, where it was 70 degrees on the mountain and people dressed up in costumes, boardshorts and bikinis.
Video one is an overexposed shot of Jon doing a tweaked stalefish.
Video two is Sidney tearing it up switch. j/k. She's tearing it up regular.
BS180 and an Ambulance
Still working out the chase cam skills. I'm riding switch to get the better angle, but then end up crashing in to Jon. You can barely hear it, but a snowmobile was coming up the slope with an ambulance siren, so Jon checks his second jump right while I'm cutting speed and we crash. That's what spring skiing is all about right?
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