Thanks. Turned out pretty good for a first attempt. I will continue to improve the quality 👌

Yeah bit of a shame the bunks have been removed it’s such a great easy spot to get to

I reckon you and Rob could make it to moa park for a camp you can even bike half the way in lol

@@AbelandVictoria oh cool maybe x

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Yeah hope todo the inland track sometime and maybe loop back around on the coast.

Looks pretty cool right. I need to test out more of the camera setting my skin tones look very red in some shots especially with the zoom lens. Turned out o Pretty decent for a first attempt though. Moa park is cool I think I seen the spot you camped at and the remains of the fire . I went further down the stream then turned left then maybe 1km across and found a nice spot.

@@AbelandVictoria Was that all unstabilised? The handheld selfie shots were solid enough as is. Bit of high pressure clear nights coming, you should get it out pointed at the core of the milkyway for practice. If you went down boulder bank drive to snapper point, the galactic core will be setting as a wide arch shape out to sea between 10-12pm each night. Timelapse with shots around Iso 6400, ƒ2.8, 15seconds.

@@kanehartill4178 yeah I didn’t do any digital stability for any of the shots. The 24 to 105 lens has inbuilt stability that works in conjunction with the cameras stabilisation pretty well. With the 20mm lens it can get pretty overly shaky if walking. When doing night lapse should you focus on the brightest star? If doing an all night time laps should I be doing continuous 20 seconds shots all night long ?

@@AbelandVictoria Yes, you always start by pointing the camera at brightest star, or planet jupiter etc and then zoom in to 10x and then manual focus (turn off autofocus and set cam to total manual.) Lens markings are meaningless, no accuracy. Can do various scenes without having to refocus if you don't touch the lens. I think multiple timelapse clips of around 10-12 sec long view well... so if frame rate is 24 then need 288 images. 288x20sec= 96 minutes to get 12 seconds of footage. Long eh... which is why I think you should take some singles and see if that lens will give you bright enough images with shorter time of 15sec by opening up the aperture to @ƒ2 - ƒ2.8. Fully open at ƒ1.8 is not ideal because all lenses are less sharp and more distorted fully open. For single images and foreground component only of a composite then I use widest aperture. Import all images into lightroom and use targeted graduated or brush filter (synchronised across all images) to brighten up the foreground a bit. People over do it, make the land brighter than the sky that the light is coming from... looks good to only brush select and increase exposure value of foreground features that are of interest... leave the moody night shadows in tact.

If you want to do long all night TL and into sunrise then it gets tricky as cam needs to be on manual all night and then you have to use exposure ramping to cope with increasing light. Stephen Patience (primal earth images) and Paul Wilson Images have it wired. But their gear is too hefty for hiking far. I think they tether to a tablet/laptop running lightroomTL add-on software to adjust exposure. They use shorter shutter times, wide open lens and longer interval between shots to minimise the number of shots needed for really long TLs... but the footage then plays less smooth, to jittery. Same in daytime, have to optimise your shot interval to match speed of cloud movement otherwise it's tiresome on the eyes to watch.

Haha wasn’t to cold although I bet compared with Brazil it was

Thank you. Yeah can’t wait to get out again and get more footage. Hope the weather improves!

So many weka. I prefer dealing with wekas then sand flys. There were so many ruru in the moa park and there were kiwi screaming in the night. It’s a great spot

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There is way more than when I was a kid. Saw one in the Queens Gardens recently.

Yeah think I need to play around with the Colour for my skin tone seems to be bringing out the red on my face a lot. There were a lot of birds in moa park was pretty sweet.

Cheers. The trap is cool. I wouldn’t take it on a big tramp but for a chilled out Camp it great.

Thanks Dave. It was a fun trip. Having a zoom lens is really fun to work with

We shall go back

There's a great view over to Nelson from the nearby Porter Rock. It's up around 1000 m.

@@gjcoop5625 yeah i have been up there years ago when I was a kid. I didn’t bother this time as there was so much fog around.

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Yeah wasn’t to bad very sensitive to wind which isn’t ideal. The Sony ecm-b1m digital mic should be awesome and really do a good job of capturing all the ambient sounds.

Yeah I definitely noticed a big difference in sound. Pretty impressive Camara by the looks. Be interesting to see what this other mic does.

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Thanks. I spend awhile looking around. Make sure I have reasonably level spot and water near by. I knew moa park was probably going to have good spots so just dropped my pack and spent some time searching

@@AbelandVictoria thanks for the reply! It's useful to know the thought process

Hey I think it was less then 20. I don’t know to be exact but I’d say over 15kg but less then 18. I took a lot of extra things and all the beer lol. It was only a short walk in. 3 hours or so

@@cassiewhite8058 just to stop mud and water getting into boots

The ones we have are big Agnes skyline ul. Gear shop sell them. I’m 88kg 183cm or so and it’s comfy for me. They are 750grams and it’s glorious to sit in them lol

B F Goodrich All-Terrain T/A Ko2 I think