Ants With The 7D

[Wagsy]

Hi
Here is a little ant clip I made today.

Shot the video as 1920/1080 25p and then edited the raw movs as is with EDIUS on my 2 year old QUAD PC-XP :)

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[MickT]

pretty cool Wagsy. I hope you wern't laying on the gtound filing this :)

(I havn't even turned on the movie mode on my 7D ... maybe I will now)

[Wagsy]

Hi Mick
Well I suggest you have a go.
I only brought the camera to shoot video. :)

The ants late in the arvo are pretty tame and you can actually sit in amongst them if you do it slowly. Different story during the day though.....

[TomasB]

Interesting video.

Would be cool if you kicked one of those mounds over then set your camera up for a sequenced video for a few hours and showed them rebuilding it.

[Wagsy]

I will go back and have another go but shoot it at 50fps, then it can be slowed down for some neat effects....more soon.

[Agrom]

Timelapse photography would show it better as Tomas said.
Its nice video work but photographing it at an example iso 100 F22 for 1sec with a N8 and 700 shots would really show the ants zooming around with some nice motion blur and edit the zoom in later.
Video cant do that.
But as I say the 7D does nice video.
Check out this timelapse of Stuttgart over 24hrs http://vimeo.com/9090369 to see what timelapse can do that video cant
Please dont take this as bagging what you have done because I think the idea is great I'd just like to see it executed with stills.

[TomasB]

Timelapse photography would show it better as Tomas said.
Its nice video work but photographing it at an example iso 100 F22 for 1sec with a N8 and 700 shots would really show the ants zooming around with some nice motion blur and edit the zoom in later.
Video cant do that.
But as I say the 7D does nice video.
Check out this timelapse of Stuttgart over 24hrs http://vimeo.com/9090369 to see what timelapse can do that video cant
Please dont take this as bagging what you have done because I think the idea is great I'd just like to see it executed with stills.

The quality of that video is amazing!!! Thanks.

[Wagsy]

I have done timelapse with my old Nikon D70 hooked to my laptop and plan to get a intervalometer and external power for the the 7D but a Tokina 11-16 mm comes first. Maybe I take my laptop next time and use that to drive the camera.

At this point I'm interested in how it shoots video, plan to get a Nauticam housing for it later on to get it underwater.

That Stuttgart video sure was pretty cool though..:)

[squaffle]

Very cool indeed and an interesting concept. Thanks for sharing.

[Wagsy]

Hi
Well here is another edit I did....:)

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[Mike]

Cool nice smooth pans and zooms, was that an ant or two running across the Lens in Ant 2 at aound 1.28?

[Wagsy]

Hi Mike
I cheated abit, pans and zoom done in EDIUS.:)

Yes the ants did attack the camera....you can indeed see a couple run over the lens...

[Mike]

Hi Mike
I cheated abit, pans and zoom done in EDIUS.:)

Yes the ants did attack the camera....you can indeed see a couple run over the lens...
Aha have to check out Edius

[lacad01]

Great work, good music as well :)

[crazyjester900]

Very nice, I am another one with video function that I just don't use but u should really get into it.
really nice.

[foodie]

I was wondering if any ants got into the cam, and then one walks across the lens :-)