Egypt, Dahab 2024

[Elvandar]

I'll post here my upload from the trip, I'll appreciate suggestion to improve 😁
 

 

[Nando Diver]

that's real good for 1080p video 

[Elvandar]

8 hours ago, Nando Diver said:

that's real good for 1080p video 

It's exported from 5.3k 16:9 native from GoPro, I think that's why 😁

 

I wanted to publish it as a short on YouTube, and the maximum resolution is 1080x1920, 9:16

 

I want to publish a longer video in a 16:9 format when I am ready 😁

 

Edited November 14 by Elvandar

[Davide DB]

Well let's say vertical video is only good for social networks, for reels or stories or shorts.
If you decide this in advance then you have to pay special attention to framing with the final crop in mind. The full 8:7 sensor format of the latest Gopro generations helps a lot in this but I think the AOI lens vignettes in this mode.
Maybe even if it vignettes you have more room to reframe the image. I don't know, I've never played with it.
Again, I don't know if you have, starting at 5.3K you have the option to reframe the shot slightly. the clown fish are too high. You should remove some of the stones. You can also help by slightly enlarging the image. Resolve works wonders.

[Elvandar]

I have shot in 16:9 5.3k, the video is just a slice of the frame, my main focus is to make a longer 16:9 video, but I decided to post litte piece as vertical video

On the final frame, i have adjusted higher the shot, but for vertical video, i left a bit of rock, that lie in the part of the social usual covered from comments and description

[Elvandar]

 

 

 

Here another slice 😁

[Nando Diver]

@Elvandar did you use any red filter or dive lights ? 

 

Next friday im going to hurgada for 7 days liveaboard, majority its going to be dive wrecks

[Elvandar]

1 hour ago, Nando Diver said:

@Elvandar did you use any red filter or dive lights ? 

 

Next friday im going to hurgada for 7 days liveaboard, majority its going to be dive wrecks

Just 2 dive light DL07 Wurkkos, no filter, recorded with log profile and then edited with DaVinci 

[Elvandar]

 

 

I have tried to add a bit of description on the short, I still have not decided if it's better or worse 😬

 

[humu9679]

On 11/14/2024 at 10:12 PM, Elvandar said:

 

 

 

Here another slice 😁

 

As a fellow video novice, here are things I noticed on the nudibranch short: cool subject; solid lighting; okay music. Didn't like the movement of the camera. And vertical framing seems like forcing an object into an unnatural frame. We naturally take in the world horizontally, and verticals come from an inability to turn the camera horizontally 😉 

[Elvandar]

Found this guy at the end of the dive, just roaming around the sand

My guide told me I was really lucky, he saw it only once in 4000+ dives 😁

[Elvandar]

 

Initially I mistaken it for a leopard flounder, but while editing I saw the absence of the fin, and I am pretty sure now that it is a Moses sole 

Can someone confirm? 😬

 

[PeterN]

On 11/13/2024 at 8:56 PM, Elvandar said:

It's exported from 5.3k 16:9 native from GoPro, I think that's why 😁

 

I wanted to publish it as a short on YouTube, and the maximum resolution is 1080x1920, 9:16

 

I want to publish a longer video in a 16:9 format when I am ready 😁

 

Were all these clips taken with a GoPro?  If so I'm impressed with the small subjects.

[Elvandar]

Yes @PeterN, all thanks to the Inon wet lens

I use the G140, G165 and G55

[PeterN]

On 11/15/2024 at 12:12 AM, Elvandar said:

 

 

 

Here another slice 😁

Which wet lens did you use for this clip?  My biggest complaint with the GoPro has always been macro but after seeing your post and doing some web searching on the Inon site this looks very impressive.  Heading to the Philippines in January and I'm thinking the G100 may be the perfect addition.  

[Elvandar]

This was the G55, but as Humu noticed, being a super macro, have two problem to consider:

 

Every small movement of the camera, will be enlarged on the video, that's why I decided to buy a tripod and try this way.

 

Another aspect of the G55, Is the depth of field that is just from 4.8 to 6.2 cm (1.9 - 2.4 In), so you need to go really intimate with your subject.

 

When you are able to overcome these 2 problem, it gives you footage from your GoPro, that I would never have think possible.

 

G100 is a bit easier and forgiving, having a DOF from 7 to 15.2 cm (2.8 - 6 In) but also has a lager fov of 90°, while the G55 has 45°.

This fov difference, allow the G55 to have a 2x zoom Vs the G100.

 

For this video, I used the G165, that lose another 2x Vs the G100, but is even easier to use (10 - 35 cm) because the subject was big enough (10 cm~) and I did not had time to change the lens, because my guide literally came back free diving to take me out of the water 😂

I made him a bit angry, I had to offer  a drink 🫣

 

On 11/17/2024 at 6:34 AM, Elvandar said:

 

 

I have tried to add a bit of description on the short, I still have not decided if it's better or worse 😬

 

 

[Elvandar]

Start to post again!
Sorry if feels spammy, but I need it as an objective to keep editing, and appreciate a lot your observation, suggestions and critique 😁 

[Nando Diver]

@Elvandar Use 16:9 format for youtube and 9:16 for social media 

[Elvandar]

1 hour ago, Nando Diver said:

@Elvandar Use 16:9 format for youtube and 9:16 for social media 

This is a youtube shorts, and youtube shorts accept only 9:16
I am uploading the same video on Instagram, youtube, tikTok and facebook in reel format.

I will upload a longer 16:9 video only on youtube when it will be ready, i am doing it piece by piece