[VIDEO] The Freediver Swims

[MartinTee]

http://www.mtoole.co.uk/video/freediver-swims-underwater-aerial-video-project

Personal project I've been working on with the help of others and a blog post writing up some of the how and why's http://www.mtoole.co.uk/blog/how-i-created-aerial-swim-through-freediving-video-freediver-swims

 

[Kars]

Interesting project.

I must confess that I've not be able to appreciate the video(s), I do not get the value of seeing a diver swim multiple screens.
A video of a diver swimming staying stationary in frame would interest me more because this would have less visual distractions. Like a clean ballet. I found the lens barrel distortion distracting. I think a DSLR with a nice wide angle lens, would help.
I would consider a deep pool , have the diver swim along the bottom, wear a shiny suit (better shapes), and my camera on a wood board, looking down from the surface in a stable way, with me finning it forward, or using a line and puly from the side to trail the diver from above.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[MartinTee]

Hi Kars,

Thanks for the critique!

The value for myself was to test some auto scrolling code but I didn't implement and test myself with video cuts within a video editing software, to get the timing right. I did have the idea of following the diver from above with a moving crane so that one video would also be used rather than multiple.

I like your other ideas