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Underwater Filmmaking Legends: Howard / Michelle Hall, Marty Snyderman (VR180)

Relax for a minute with 3D-180 vignettes from Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile (Patagonia), and of ancient redwood trees in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Northern California, including footage from the Grove of Titans.

“Take a Breath” VR180 Scenics: Patagonia and California Redwoods

Relax for a minute with 3D-180 vignettes from Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile (Patagonia), and of ancient redwood trees in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Northern California, including footage from the Grove of Titans.

Underwater Philippines: RED Hydrogen One / Gates Underwater Housing

The RED Hydrogen One smartphone is too novel for its own good, but I was able to use it to take some casual 3D (stereoscopic) underwater pictures by putting it in a Gates Underwater Housing, and lighting scenes with a pair of Gates GT14 lights.

Steel Wool Spinning in 3D-180 (VR)

Arcs of Fire (Steel Wool Spinning in VR 3D-180)

I have been imagining for years what it would be like to create a moving version of the striking still photographs of steel wool spinning, which are almost all long exposures of 10 seconds or more.

Underwater Apo Island, Philippines, in VR 3D-180

I spent 2 weeks in December at Atlantis Dive Resorts & Liveaboards in Dumaguete celebrating the 70th birthdays of Marty Snyderman and Howard Hall Productions. Instead of shooting a normal underwater cameras, I brought a prototype stereoscopic underwater rig comprised of two Z CAM E2 cameras, iZugar MKX200 lenses, a custom housing by Blue Ring Imaging, and two Gates Underwater Products GT14 lights.

Facebook Wall, archive shot from December 2011

A 470-megapixel version of the Facebook Wall in 2011

In December of 2011, I went to the abandoned Facebook headquarters at 1601 S California Ave in Palo Alto, California. A guard let me in, and I set up a tripod in front of the famous wall just inside the entrance...

Re-wrapping trail cam .avi files so they can be imported into Lightroom (Python script; ffmpeg)

We have a well-used animal path in our backyard here in San Mateo, California; bobcats, deer, coyotes, raccoons, and skunks make their way past our house virtually every day. The bobcats are our favorites--each spring, they have kittens...

Encoding VR 360 and 180 immersive videos for Oculus Media Studio and sideloading into Oculus Quest and Go

If you're encoding immersive video to upload to Oculus Media Studio, you'll want to target your encodes to match the specs for Oculus Media Studio...

Beatboxers Butterscotch and Syzygy Ep 1 in VR 3D-180

Beatboxers Butterscotch and Syzygy jam in a session with producer Jim Greer in Berkeley. July 11, 2018, at Rondo Brothers Studio.