CQBCity July 03 2010 -- Day Event

Took the 5D Mark II to CQBCity this Saturday for a day event. Played the first two hour game (amazing how just changing the duration of the game changes the whole dynamic). After lunch I spent my time shooting with the camera, experimenting with video and taking stills. Here's the result:

Video: http://vimeo.com/13087400

Stills: http://picasaweb.google.com/stephen.couratier/CQBCity20100703PublicAirsoftEvent#

Lessons learned:

- stop being so damn resistant to using the flash

- work on white balance for videos

- record sound for videos

- don't record short clips. Go for longer stuff

- wear something red

I'm also created a twitter account to let folks know when I actually post the stuff up. If you are into that sort of thing..

http://twitter.com/Xloob

Also, make you check out the footage from MilsimJunkie:

http://www.milsimjunkie.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/MilsimJunkie1

CQBCity:

http://www.cqbcity.com/

A taste of the photos:

From CQBCity 20100703 (public airsoft event)

And here's the video:

CQBCity 03 July 2010 from Stephen Couratier on Vimeo.

New 5D Mark II

Even though I plan on focusing on taking pics and videos of people, I went out today to take a shots to get used to the camera and learn a few things.

- monopod.. I'm going to need to make this investment.

- 1080p is way to large for posting online. I'll need to test with some 720p.

- videos still look wierd on my computer.

Also created a Vimeo account and figured out how to upload videos (not rocket science..). And now I'm going to see if I can embed something!

Here it is:

Golden Gate and Nature from Stephen Couratier on Vimeo.