This is a video art piece I shot and edited for “BYOB Perth” (Bring Your Own Beamer) a video projection night to share video art with others. I wanted to see how hard it would be to match two separate shots placed side by side as well as experiment with super slow motion post production effects.

It was shot with a canon 7D with a tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens using a glidecam 400HD.

To get the shots I needed to match together I would have to do several takes from each side of the walkway of each subject walking until I had a shot I felt I could work with. But in reality that was harder then it seemed as it was a working train station and near a busy night area there was always people walking around. As any unintentional background extras would ruin the split screen timing effect. I just had to wait until it was clear and go for a take. In the end I only ended up with one good shot from each side. Luckily that was all I needed.

Music: Ulrich Schnauss – A Song About Hope

Project Mo from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

A quick film on shaving for Movember. If you like or hate this video please donate to my Movember fund to aid prostate cancer research.
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Shot on a 7D with a few different lenses. Also used an igus slider for the moving shots. Edited in premiere cs5 and colour graded in After Effects. Also thanks to Matt for helping with the motivation, setting up and filming. This would not of gotten done with out your help. Cheers mate.

Swan River Sunset from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

This is a time-lapse of the sun setting over the Swan River in Perth. Shot with a 28mm lens and canon 7D over two hours. I did some post processing in After Effects to get the nice colours and added some blur to smooth out the background. If you really wanna know more about how its done and put together I’ll gladly write about it, otherwise enjoy.
Below is a still from the time-lapse with a quick edit in photoshop.

7D 50p to 25p Slowmotion in Premiere from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

Here is a short tutorial showing you how to use your 7D 50p footage and conform it to 25p in Premiere to get that nice slow motion look.

Cottesloe Beach, Tilt Shift Fakery – 7D from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

After getting my hands on a neat little plug-in for Final Cut Pro I knew I had to try it out. Shrink ray by Crumple pop gives your videos a tilt shift effect with very little effort and is fully configurable. Just follow the online videos and instruction and everything will be working in minutes. I went down to Perth’s Cotteslose beach on a busy sunday and filmed some quick shots with my 7D to try the affect on. Everything worked out really well and the video looks great, I can’t wait to find more excuses to use this effect.

Music used is Elle Et Moi by Cicada