A few new videos

arboraesthetics

Here are a few new videos.
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a time lapse removal of two trees

time lapse bur oak prune


cut a tendon with my silky

A 4:1 MA was set up to pull the felled trunk into the "nature preserve". Unfortunately, no video of the pulling. There's more info about the job on youtube.

These photos may answer some questions as well: The Grove Cottonwood


Jeff
Arbor Aesthetics | Omaha, Nebraska | Tree Trimming

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Eric Frei

Good stuff, the time shots are great.

You had a few shots at that notch for felling in the first video, must have been something outside of camera angle important etc.

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Garry Brockley

man that time lapse filming is just brilliant love that idea great jobs
lets have some more of them

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rbtree

Nice....

I checked out your photosite....nice stuff, including the storm cloud photos..

I see that you recently got a 5D...I'm looking to get a Mark ll, and am monitoring the photo forums. Deliveries finally started a few days ago. Waiting list still huge, will prolly be a couple months before any are available.

Clean your sensor!! do a google search and buy some product. It can be done yourself. Visibledust.com products are good, it sounds like. I've yet to get any. I use a big blower brush on my 1D Mk ll...so far, it's working pretty well, but I still need to do a proper cleaning.

Sorry about the handsaw cut....happens to0 often to too many folks.

arboraesthetics

Ekka,

Yeah, the adjustments to the notch were done to avoid the trees outside of view and get the tree to fall as close as safely possible to the deck the camera was on... I thought it would make for a better video. Thanks for the compliments.

rbtree,

I dropped the 5D off at the camera shop earlier today for a sensor cleaning. Those damn spots just all of a sudden show up out of nowhere the day you leave your backup 5D at home and there are trees to climb... I'm buying that cleaning product you mentioned but until then Jeremy (my right hand man) is going to make a few trips to the camera shop.

Thanks for the compliments. I've been checking your photos out for a while. I really liked your photogenic removal shots.

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rbtree

2 5D's?? nice.... I'm looking forward to getting a Mkll....but, will be needing a quad core computer to handle the processing, 'specially vid editing...

What's your widest lens? my 17-40 f/4 is 22 mm on my 1D, not wide enuf.........super wides are great for trees...and of course many other things. Rest of quiver: 24-70 2.8L, 70-200 2.8L IS, 300 2.8...in the shop, for months now....1.4 and 2x.... shopping ebay FM forums for a 100 macro...just got a LensBaby...haven't played with it yet....and a second 580 EX flash, one is a EX ll
I just got PaintShop ProX for cheap.....don't have PS.....do simple editing in ACDSee...looking forward to HDR processing, which PSP does...bracket 3 shots, it combines them into one, taking the proper exposed section of each photo, thereby effectively increasing the dynamic range

arboraesthetics

I'm sorry... I was kidding about the second 5D. Two 5D's would be great! Maybe by this summer I will have the 5D Mkll. I was thinking about the 1D but the 5D MkII has HD video... HD video with so many lens possibilities has sold me I think.

Here's what I do have: EF 16-35mm L; EF 24-70mm L; EF 180mm macro L; 580 EX flash; TC-80n3 timer remote controller (for the time lapse vids); canon hv20 camcorder. So you own a 300mm 2.8... my complements and my envy; but in the shop for months: my condolences. The 300mm 2.8 IS L is my dream lens.

I'm usually shooting trees at 16mm. All the time lapse were shot at 16mm. You're right, 22mm is not wide enough. My software: quicktime for the time lapse; photoshop for raw; and picasa for viewing. Picasa makes automatic adjustments to raw images which I usually don't like with one exception:

It usually does a great job adjusting this type of image. Better then I can do manually in photoshop.

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rbtree

Mine is 20 yrs old, has some mold, and prolly needs a motor...my shop guy is dragging his feet, maybe cause he figures it'll be hard to fix, and the results may not be perfect. Told him fix it anyhow (He has an old lens from which he can scavenge parts....)

Reckon a 600 f/4 would be on my XMAS list if I had rich friends......

But I've gotten some pretty sharp images with telecon's on the 300---and even the 70-200........ even stacked, which equals 1100mm with the 1D/300.

Time for a carbon fiber tripod....have seen some off brand ones for nice low prices.......my Big Gitzo is a tank......

I also like Picasa..not as full featured as ACDSee...but very quick and convenient.

Oxman

Here's a video of horsing around in the 9' Black Fox Sugar Pine.

Santa showed up a week early and left a Nikon D90 Kit, with a 18-105 for close in stuff, and a 70-300mm for the long shots. Gotta go find some filters, batteries, and Class 6 SD cards.

Next stop---the pawn shop!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9103505627863744927

Eric Frei

Hey, that was a B&W video, you gonna get colour some day?

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Oxman

Ok, since this thread was ostensibly about video, here's a more complete version of the SRT ascent up the Black Fox Sugar Pine seen in the last clip. This footage was taken at 10X zoom with a JVC GRDP3U standard definition MiniDV camcorder. The reason it looks sepia-toned is that it's been massacred by Windows Movie Maker software.

We're getting into the high def video soon, Ekka. The CyberShot H9 took a dunking in the lake in the dark at Treehouse Point during the symposium. It must have seaweed under the mode dial, cause it 'floats' between multiple presets. Useless. Along with the cell phone. Oh, yeah, along with its owner, too. They say good things come out of tragedy. Out with the Sony, in with the Nikon. The King is dead! Long live the king!

This new 12 megapixel Nikon D90 that landed under the Xmas tree is the first single lens reflex camera to have high definition video capability. I haven't even taken it out of the box yet because accessory goodies needed to be ordered. The Elves were falling down on the job.

Canon came in hot on Nikons heels with their 5D Mark II pro model, which costs quite a bit more, due to its larger (21 megapixel) full frame CMOS sensor. The odd thing is, Nikon has never made a camcorder before, and is jumping in feet first (which we're getting used to).

One interesting fact that sold me was that Nikon is working with Sandisk to design a Secure Digital (SDHC) memory card expressly for this camera. It will be called "Extreme 4", and have a faster data transfer rate than regular Class 6 cards. The Extreme 4 already comes in a Compact Flash version, a USB version called the Ducati Edition, and a hybrid SD/USB Ducati model that only cranks at 20 megs per second.

The HD signal coming out of the SLR cameras CMOS light sensor onto the storage card contains way more information than a camcorders CCD sensor produces, due to the placement of the larger sensor behind the lens where a 35mm wide piece of film used to be.

The card that is being shipped from Amazon.com is a Sandisk "Extreme III, 30 MB/s Edition", which is equivalent to 200X speed data transfer rate. It's in the 16 gig capacity, because the camera produces much larger 720P HD video files than the MPEG4 files that the old Sony H9 only required a 4 gig Memory Stick. Not a cheap way to capture an hour long movie, but we don't want to be impeding the flow, do we? The eight M/pixel Sony created 7 megabyte still photos, while the 12 M/pixel Nikon is supposed to generate a 13 MB RAW file for each photograph.

At any rate, some of the accessories on order are a spare battery, a couple of 67mm Hoya lens filters, leather case, a case for the long VR lens, 3" LCD cover, wireless remote control, and Manfrotto Modo 785b Maxi pistol grip hybrid photo/video tripod.

Looks like some formerly fascinating bricks will have to go on the block to support the SLR habit. Anybody up for an Archos helmet cam with 420 lines of horizontal resolution at half off the retail price of $600?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5475493173384941437&hl=en

Oxman

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5005689910008948322&hl=en

rbtree

Well, there ya go!! You'll get used to the size of the SLR, Mike, and as you discover all that a SLR allows, including this pioneer in the video world, you'll grow to love it.

I was just reading up on the idiosyncracies of the 5DMKll video mode. Seems it is problematic as well.

Sounds like video editing those full HD 1020P files is tough with a PC, plus may suggest one buy pricey software like FinalCut.....


all that aside, I'm still getting one....sometime soon.

nice pine!!! sugary....!

rbtree

Here's pics/ vid from yesterday.....I was alone, and had to improvise to get this large failed atlas cedar limb off a fence without damaging the fence any more. I had no blocks, friction, or lowering/lifting devices with me, only one rope, and a throw line (customer said the limb was already down...which it kinda was.)

So, I cut off what I could, easily, then attached the line to it (I could have cut and pushed more chunks, but it was a bit high up for my lacking statuesquity, and I wanted to have some fun.) Ran it through a rough barked natural crotch, and down to my 4wd liteweight Toyota, which, even in 4wd, could gain little purchase in the 35 F snow laden road. It could hold it, though.





It's hard to tell, in the vid, but I had the limb tied over a wide area, with a bunch of marls, and rigged to the truck. Then I cut and hung the end piece...then swung the 2nd. after that, I just pushed a couple chunks over the fence, then reattached the line. Missed that minor part, as the play button didn't like my gloves, or somethin'.... Lowered the last piece by driving the truck forward...21st century rigging, eh?!

Oxman

The scene with the comment at the beginning of the video of just sauntering over to the roped-up limb with a chainsaw reminds me of something. Marlin Perkins narrating a rhino wrasseling by his buddy, Jim.

Eric Frei

So that video was shot out of a pic camera right?

Pretty good!

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treefeller

Great vids

Oxman

Here's a cross post of the Rockefeller Forest redwood climb videos.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1857484096798346125&ei=b4lVSaTaL6HaqAODu6ygCw&q=rockefeller+redwood+forest+climb

Oxman

Part 2 of the Rockefeller Forest redwood climb video. This clip contains a demonstration of compound bow line setting.

Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2376556230184628922&hl=en

Eric Frei

Hope you had Mario Vaden's permission to climb them redwoods.

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rbtree

Your good friend Mario?

Oh, yes Eric....that's my Canon A 650IS

The SX1 shoots 1920x1080 clips.....a prosumer Canon, but isn't sold in the US.......wanna buy me one?

don't think i want it....would prolly prefer a camcorder.....and will be getting the Canon SLR that shoots HD. Also, I read that, as the first CMOS chipped compact camera, Canon is using it as a test case..and won't put it in its largest market for that reason.

rbtree

Mike, is that Scotty Altenhoff weilding the bow?

After watching his rope walking prowess, I'm gonna go that route. Just gotta fine tune the chest harness and add the second foot strap ascender.

Too bad the Wrist Rocket isn't made anymore. Are you still ising yours?

Oxman

The story of that February, 2008 bowshooting climb is over at:

Tree Climbers International - Re:Bogachiel Spruce reclimb in 2008 - TCI Message Board

Seattle has been in the grip of a snow event for over a week. Now we know how the catatonia sets in for those Minnesnowteans. 86th St. Photo & Fed Ex are attempting to get a 2 Day Air package of camera accessories for the D90 here from New York since last December 20th. Of course one of those days was Sunday, and one of those days was Christmas, and the snow has prevented delivery of our Seattle Times newspaper, and our mail delivery, as well as our trash pickup for some of the days this week. It's give me time to consider adding this 18-200mm VR lens to the arsenal.

This pic should get everyone in the mood to break free of the ice crust and shoot some trees. A handy, lethal device that can be carried inside your backpack out in the woods without arousing too many fears of recreational tree climbers 'going postal'.