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              How A Professional Photographer Should Document A Vacation

              Don’t you dread viewing your friend’s and family’s vacation pictures and videos? Even when I go on vacation I take so many bad pictures and videos that I don’t even want to go back and view them again. What if we spent a little more time on our next vacation and shot pictures and stills with a particular project in mind? That is what this couple did and now they have a tight 4 minute video that is fun for anyone to watch.


              Here is another great vacation video shot completely on a GoPro by Daniel Ferro.



              May 9, 2011
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              • Anonymous

                I need a vacation, great vibe all around. Nice visuals and style on both vids although I’d prefer a different soundtrack in the first one and less than 50% of the shots being the guy trying seduce the camera in the 2nd.

              • Peter Barnes

                Got a green screen, no images, on both vids, and when viewed direct from Vimeo as well, why is this?

              • http://profiles.google.com/gameboy1574 gameboy1574

                very awesome videos, i would be cool to see a BTS video on the first one

              • Anonymous

                This looked very good. Well done. Music was mad annoying and IF I SEE ANYMORE ABUSE OF THE PAN LEFT TO RIGHT DOLLY ACTION IM GOING TO KILL EVERY DSLR USER. The elephant perspective shot was real cool and the girl standing up on the swing was very nice.

                This team did a great job.

              • Anonymous

                This looked very good. Well done. Music was mad annoying and IF I SEE ANYMORE ABUSE OF THE PAN LEFT TO RIGHT DOLLY ACTION IM GOING TO KILL EVERY DSLR USER. The elephant perspective shot was real cool and the girl standing up on the swing was very nice.

                This team did a great job.

              • http://www.rlmorris.com Lee Morris

                I think flash has crashed on your computer and you need to restart your browser

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1403962574 Levy Moroshan

                I’ve got a vacation coming up in June! Might give this a go in Hawaii!

              • http://www.patrickhallphotography.com Patrick Hall

                I bet the doublement gum had something to do with all these great artsy shots too. I wonder though when they watch this back if they remember having all this fun or just the memories of constantly framing up shots?

              • http://www.netfalls.com Remy Musser

                Cool video, I’ll try to make some nice behind the scene during my vacation.
                I will go to Greece next Sunday for the next 4 month…

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002406422435 Eden Andrews

                Wow…that first one is so VAIN….do people really do that when they go on holiday, shoot their behinds, take artsy shots of their ‘gum’ & twirl around on the beach with umbrellas? I’m doing it all wrong obviously.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247196455 Dontae Jones

                everyones different, you do what you like :) great vid

              • Anonymous

                @PatrickHHall:disqus Everything is for peoples but in everything you have to know when to say stop :) Weed sometimes helps creativity but we remember all of our journey ;)

              • Anonymous

                Really nothing interesting. No lights, no script, no models, no gears…

              • Anonymous

                Thank You :) So you will have enough time to make 4 videos.

              • http://www.netfalls.com Remy Musser

                I hope so, you know how it works… sea, sun… I might get lazy :-)

              • http://profiles.google.com/jens.robert.leo.marklund Jens Marklund

                This is really freaky. I came back on December the 20th from a Three month trip though South East Asia – and visited Koh Lipe (the island in the video) in the beginning, and Angor Wat (temples) near the end of my journey. I even shot some photos of the girl, with her brother, at 2.15 in the video.

                I guess it’s a small world.

              • Anonymous

                lol isnt that the reason why people get a dslr, so they can pan left/right with their diy slider… lol

              • http://profiles.google.com/tomekfryszkiewicz Tomasz Fryszkiewicz

                The first one is way to technical for a vacation video. I would like to see even a hint of smile on their faces. This video lacks soul, so to say, whereas the second one, although very well organized, has that spontaneous feel to it, seems just more emotional, real and fun. I definitely prefer ’3 days in Rio’.

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F4V22SNXGLKLOAY7DKQWNBGDQI neeraj j

                I recently visited Ladakh (for 6 days)……..took some shots & have made a video of stills –
                http://www.youtube.com/user/neerajfreespirit1?blend=1&ob=5#p/a/u/0/LkPaiNjjdXk

              • http://profiles.google.com/ira.monko Ira Monko

                Just ordered a GoPro for my vacay in 2 weeks.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Mims/12705137 Christopher Mims

                If you look at the link below, straight to vimeo, you will see the list of gear he used on his vacation to make this film. Shot on a Canon 5d mkii.

                http://vimeo.com/23383691

              • http://twitter.com/Myrddon Henning Nilsen

                Your GPU driver crashed. You should upgrade that and flash if you haven’t.

              • http://twitter.com/adriana0 adriana

                For another example with more “soul”: http://vimeo.com/11569346

              • Antoine Thisdale

                Got me a GoPro and all sort of gear and now waiting on some SD cards from Bhphotovideo… this is a great idea for vacations and i’m leaving for France next week… should be awesome. 

                Any ideas what kind of postprocess was used in the second video? (my favorite of the two, too). 

              • Anonymous

                Thanks, adriana! This one is great! I love it!

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GCJFHH3AUIB7BYGGEKWB5ROEKY RICHARD

                She’s HOT!

              • http://www.facebook.com/patryan Patrick Ryan

                Took a road trip to Canada last year and stayed on a friend’s island called Hogg Island. Here is a fun video we made of the trip :)  

                http://vimeo.com/14033771

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tomas-Piliponis/100000675654670 Tomas Piliponis

                your browser – gateway from the matrix. both of those two videos WAS shot on green screen… Welcome to reality, Neo…

              • Anonymous

                did these http://vimeo.com/22103489 & http://vimeo.com/33987540. both iphone and 7d combos. 

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