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Stand Up Paddle => Flatwater and Touring => Topic started by: deepmud on August 22, 2017, 04:21:38 PM
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My daughter's friend has a drone, he offered to take some video. I've been wanting to try this short run from Eklutna Tailrace (I visited it last December https://www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php/topic,31342.msg345553.html#msg345553 - if photobucket will let you look...) to Knik River Bridge, where the highway crosses this silty, cold water. BTW -- I have seen Beluga Whales under this bridge once - I was sort of hoping they would show up for me paddling...long shot...
SO I put in up near the Tailrace, where Eklutna Lake pours thru a 6 foot tunnel thru the mountain, driving a power plant.
The Drone shot taken at the end shows where I started - right at the bend in the river with white buildings nearby.
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Pics from down on the water - hat GoPro mount
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It's REALLY shallow in spots - this is a river full of glacier flour. What looks like a ripple from the water is a sandbar clearly visible overhead. Folding fin a good idea.
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Goal in sight - first a railroad, then highway crossing.
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More overhead shots on my Blue Planet - still going strong Robert :D
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The drone started to lose contact here and flew home after these shots
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Some very nice photos of your session. I do remember those winter time photos too.
Thanks for taking the time and effort to share these warm weather session photos with us.
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The water does weird stuff to the fin, pulls you all around. I found that a fast pace minimized this. The red inflatable kayak had a older couple who came over to ask me how I did - the whirls were spinning them 180/360 sometimes - but I was going a lot faster.
Hope you enjoyed the trip - I loved this one.
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Gods country Mud. Living good:)
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The long road into solitude.... very cool drone shots!
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Thanks Sup, TallDude, Night Wing :D
My daughter promises an edited video later too - should be cool! The drone ( I think a Dj mavic? Folds up to the size of a set of binoculars in it's case) takes really clear video - those are just screen captures and I had to size them down a lot.
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Beautiful photos. Love your posts, you paddle in a beautiful part of the world.
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My daughter hasn't come through with that video yet - so I gave it a shot. Default music option, and a mix of my "kook-cam" GoPro and my Sony RX100II on the board (pretty amazing stablization I think) to mix in with the drone video.
I tried to be brutal and keep it short - it's still over 2 minutes. Just a link to vimeo - not sure if it will embed...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/246739007
I think I should redo it with more drone, less gopro/sony because the drone stuff is so pretty...but I'm also trying to make it tell a story....
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https://vimeo.com/246739007
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That's nice having three cameras to work with, especially that one's a drone:) You did pretty good with your own edit.
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Makes me want one of those "follow me" drones :D The Sony was about as much as one - and with the waterproof case, it's as much as the one they are selling at Costco - but it's serious camera, it was great to have something that compact but high quality in Italy a couple years ago.
Pono - what did you do? I even tried quoting you to see what you put in there.....I can't see it. But thanks.
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I can answer that. You click the share button upper right of the screen (similar to YouTube) and hover your cursor over the www.vimeo link at the bottom of the share options. When it highlights, Right click and select 'copy link'. Then just paste that link into your zone posting window.
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I did? Hit share, copy the link, paste in the thread....but .. oh.... now that I pay attention, my link has "player" in it, Bill's doesn't. I tried the embed link first, then cut it down - but not enough :D oops
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I can answer that. You click the share button upper right of the screen (similar to YouTube) and hover your cursor over the www.vimeo link at the bottom of the share options. When it highlights, Right click and select 'copy link'. Then just paste that link into your zone posting window.
Nah, I looked at the video and saw it said player, so I clicked on the vimeo logo link to go to Vimeo and the URL didn't have player, so I tried that.