Beautiful Charleston SC From Above (a Canon EOS 5D Mark II video)

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by planetMitch in 5D2, Video

Adam Boozer sent us this beautiful Canon EOS 5D Mark II video – nothing but aerials from above Charleston SC. He writes:

“The piece is made up of footage that I have been contracted to shoot for the Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. We have done numerous flights in the area and just have been really stunned with the results. Ultimately we will be producing numerous videos using the material, but I just HAD to cut something as a bit of a teaser. I used “Some where over the rainbow” because both shooting at 5 and 6 in the morning, hovering 15-20 feet over the marsh and then watching the footage when I got back, truly felt like some type of dream. I really feel honored to have the opportunity to capture images like this.

Everything is shot with the Canon 5d Mark II stabilized on a Tyler Mini Gyro. We are shooting out of the side of an open door on a Robinson R44 Helicopter. The Tyler mount works exceptionally well, but I still found that I used SmoothCam in Final Cut Pro on nearly all of the shots to make them perfectly locked on.

I used a Singh-Ray Vari nd filter on the front on a Canon 16-35 2.8 L, A Sigma 50mm 1.4 and a Canon 70-200 2.8 L.

I use a Zacuto precision shooter setup with a Marshall HDMI monitor, Zacuto Z Follow Focus, rails…etc

All of the shots have been conformed to 24p in Cinema Tools.

Slight color grading was done using Magic Bullet Looks.”

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Thanks Adam!

(Photo credit: snap from the video)