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Rory McLeod
Registrace 25. 06. 2010
Rory McLeod grew up in the wild of the deserts of central Australia
where he developed a passion for the environment, wildlife & all
things visually brilliant. He is currently based in Victoria, Australia
but is willing to travel anywhere in the world to make films/documentaries.
His main focus is on Wildlife Filmmaking, Narrative
Cinematography & Commercial Cinematography.
Become a Patreon supporter: www.patreon.com/rorymcleodfilm
where he developed a passion for the environment, wildlife & all
things visually brilliant. He is currently based in Victoria, Australia
but is willing to travel anywhere in the world to make films/documentaries.
His main focus is on Wildlife Filmmaking, Narrative
Cinematography & Commercial Cinematography.
Become a Patreon supporter: www.patreon.com/rorymcleodfilm
The Flooded Forest - a reflection on our experience filming one of the floods in the Baarka
The Flooded Forest.
This is a reflection on our experience filming one of the floods in the Baarka earlier in the year in the heat with mosquitoes at our back. We (Rory McLeod and Peter Yates) set out to gather footage for a documentary supporting the idea that rivers are more than their banks. However the realities of life are getting in the way for now. I have a 5 1/2 month old daughter to help look after and to provide for which means I can’t take the risk of working on an un-funded documentary.
For now I just wanted to share this little reflection and the incredible footage that we captured as it didn’t seem fair to keep the video private any more.
Enjoy.
This is a reflection on our experience filming one of the floods in the Baarka earlier in the year in the heat with mosquitoes at our back. We (Rory McLeod and Peter Yates) set out to gather footage for a documentary supporting the idea that rivers are more than their banks. However the realities of life are getting in the way for now. I have a 5 1/2 month old daughter to help look after and to provide for which means I can’t take the risk of working on an un-funded documentary.
For now I just wanted to share this little reflection and the incredible footage that we captured as it didn’t seem fair to keep the video private any more.
Enjoy.
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Fela! Border Collie x Heeler at 3 to 4 years of age UPDATE!!! Many people have requested an update video on Fela, my furry companion. I started this maybe a year ago, but wanted to add more. However I have a 3 month old daughter at home and life is a bit hectic. Free time is virtually non existent. So I finally decided to throw what I had together. Its long, but thats for the die hards! He does...
Help Ensure the Survival of Wirra-Lo Wetlands and secure the future of 30 threatened species!
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Help secure the future of 30 threatened species in Victoria by helping the Wetland Revival Trust raise $750,000 dollars to purchase Wirra-lo. Donations: wetlandrevivaltrust.org/donate/ More info: wetlandrevivaltrust.org/wirra-lo-wetlands/ The Wirra-lo wetlands are a complex of swamps, creeks, and floodplains located on a 180-hectare private property about one kilometre north-east of the junctio...
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Dolphins in Port Philip Bay near Sorrento. They decided to have a play in the waves created by the sea road ferry.
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Cailin is a Vedic meditation teacher, photographer and master cookie baker. She is based in Victoria, but spends some months of the year in Belgium where she grew up and studied linguistics. Cailin has first handedly experienced what anxiety and stress does to a young girl growing up in our fast paced society where there is so much pressure to conform to certain stereotypes. Although these effe...
NSW - Floodplains inundated - Baarka Darling River in Flood!!! 2021 - C70 - C200 - MP2
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WARNING!!! Contains beautiful footage of floodplains inundated, for many this has been a distant memory. Floods of this scale don’t happen very often anymore. This flood was big enough to get past all extraction points and so finally the yabbies and fish can breed, finally the trees can take in a drink. We made “When the River Runs Dry” and we wanted nothing more than to see the river like this...
Rain Storms on the Darling River - Australia - C70 - C200 - MP2 - Archive Footage
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Rain Storms hit the Darling River in Australia. Atmospheric skies and dramatic rainstorms. Filmed in December 2021. For footage enquiries please visit my website: rorymcleodfilm.weebly.com/rates-471906.html Next video will be floodplains in flood along the Darling River.
Border Collie x Heelers playing IRRIGATION - Shot canon c70
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Fela was never allowed to play ball or sticks because he’s an obsessive collie at heart. Being a farm dog of sorts we needed him to avoid losing his brain completely with ball games. In stead he learnt to chase pipes in the air. Still a pretty idiotic game but strangers don’t know it, therefore he can’t make them do it for him. 😂 These days it’s an old bike tyre and boy do they love it. Major h...
Claypans Dead Car - Mparntwe - Alice Springs - Canon C70 & DJI MP2
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Kookaburras sharing the heat. Not much else to be done when it’s hot! 🥵 Yes shot C70 😋
Canon C70 - High DR Manual Grain Harvest 2020 - Varied Frame Rates
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My dad decided to do everything the hard way! No machines! Unfortunately I missed the scything part of the process. He will then mill his 20kgs of grain and make bread and pasta! I found the C70 screen was more than bright enough for this kind of lighting situation provided luminance is put to 2. For me this was a concern as I do a lot of outdoor filming and prefer to use a viewfinder in sunny ...
Canon C70 - Goat Kid Cuddles - 25fps Accidental 2k Proxy Files
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Sooo when I shot this it was spur of the moment, I had to run and get my c70. I had previously set it to shoot 4k 10 bit files and proxy files. Anyway I had removed the A card and I didn't realise. Cutting to the chase the only files I recorded for this little video were proxy files. They are a far cry from being as detailed as either 4k or 2k main files, but they held up just fine... I doubt t...
Canon C70 - 180fps super 16 crop - Blue Banded Bee
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Blue Banded Bees make great slow a great slow motion target as their normal motion is too fast to make good footage with. This was shot with my Canon C70 to test out the 180 FPS. Since Dual Gain Output is turned off above 60fps and since 180 FPS happens on a 2k crop of the sensor there is more noise to deal with and its more prominent. Ie you need to expose to eradicate noise at this crop. So t...
Canon C70 High dynamic range situations - Goats on Rocks
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Goat kid gets a challenge on the steep side of goat rock and the Canon C70 gets a high DR situation. You just don't get crappy noise in the shadows so the main task is to protect the highlights since the shadows can be pulled so much!
Water - Canon C70 Slowmotion - 4k 120fps - 10 bit HVEC
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Water - Canon C70 Slowmotion - 4k 120fps - 10 bit HVEC
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2020 Cinematography Reel - C200 - c300 - Dragon - DJI MP2 - 4K
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Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega performed by Clancy McLeod
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Clancy McLeod - Le Départ, Op 31 Napoléon Coste 1 - Classical Guitar
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Do you have any knowledge regarding the C200 and fixed pattern noise? I'm noticing faint vertical lines in my 4k video
Have you tried to do a black balance? But no I hadn’t experienced fixed pattern noise when I had the c200. If Black Balancing doesn’t fix the issue then it’s probably a dying sensor or perhaps you just need to avoid under exposing.
@@SuperRawza thanks, I'll have to learn/try a black balance. And cross my fingers that the sensor isn't dieing 🤞🏻
My exposure scenario doesn't get much harder and I'd appreciate an opinion 🤔 I shoot land-based surf video with C200 in 4k raw. I viewed this post looking for knowledge regarding iso as I'm uneducated. How should one approach iso selection with regards to these factors . The foam created by waves is white, the wave is generally quite dark, the subject (substance abusing, peace loving surfer) is generally in a black wetsuit, generally shooting at full telephoto end of the lens (400mm) The white foam must be overexposed for everything else to be correctly exposed. You' may have subjects to the left side and right side of you, meaning, you may at any time have the sun providing great or poor light if it is early morning here in sunny Newcastle, Australia on the beach, facing left into the sun will help using a polarising filter , but facing right, the polarising filter will darken the image. I could go on,... Eg, many sunny days will still have broken up clouds which requires constant quick readjustment of exposure. settings So regarding iso, what should I consider .... Would very much appreciate any assistance 🙏🏻
With the waves, iso 400, white parts of the waves no higher then 93 ire if you want any detail in them. But you always have to consider what’s most important and compromise!
Much appreciated, thankyou.
What a delight! Striated Thornbills are not only beautiful little bird but also probably the most fascination of their genus in so many respects.
These are my favorite spiders
never skip frontleg day
I saw one today and regret not bringing it home and putting it in my flowers
Like R2D2 and other Star Wars sound effects. Marvellous stuff :)
Finally I figured out what this spider is! I found one is the bush once and was mesmerized by it. I picked it up (with a leaf) to inspect it. It tried getting away but I didn’t let it go I liked it lol. So it finally gave up and decided to just build its web in my hand 😂 it was floating inbetween my fingers building its web there
Interesting! Might have been a different spider as these guys don’t hunt with webs, more rely on stealth and waiting where something is likely to come!
I'm impressed that you got such good footage. I was stalking one today in Sydney bush and got close enough to make a good recording but no video. Did you have a powerful zoom? I only had my phone and as soon as I got close enough to film he was gone. It being thick scrub didn't help and it was hard to move quietly. I got the feeling he new I was there all the time. I've stalked them before in SE QLD and never got anywhere near them.
Thanks. Yeah a 400mm on a 1.5 crop. So basically 600mm!
Haha it attacked with the Star Platinum.
when you accidentally type 🤨🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋😐✋
only in Alberta 💀💀💀
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Hi Rory. Firstly, your images look gorgeous - whatever your exposure strategy is! :) I stumbled onto this post (late to the party, I apologise) after interrogating my own exposure strategy - currently with the Canon R5 shooting Raw. All that follows is regarding shooting in RAW only! Your test is interesting, and perfectly valid, but I wonder whether the way you describe Expose To The Right (ETTR) in this video could use some clarification? Beyond the processing software responding to changes in metadata, the raw data captured will be exactly the same given the same light/aperture/shutter-speed at ISOs 100, 400, 800, 1600 etc. (NB ARRI Alexa users may disagree here. But that's another discussion…) The only way to truly ETTR (or ETTL) I know of is by increasing - or decreasing the light reaching the sensor for a given exposure - whether by aperture, shutter-speed - or increasing the physical lighting. This is also the only way to re-distribute tonal value-weighting either side of a middle grey point e.g. A bright high-key sun-lit exterior will benefit from careful ETTL (less light) if you wish to preserve highlights and mid-tones. And if you want to 'see into the shadows' in a low-key night interior it'll better be served if you ETTR (more light). Noise-wise, best results will always be produced at the sensor's designed/native ISO - if you can do so at the light levels available. I was initially thrown by your commentary at 10:06 about 'avoiding shooting a sunny-day at ISO 200 because the clipping of the highlights isn't so nice'. On reflection, I see this less as being directly related to ISO (intuition tells us to use lower ISO for more available light) - as exposure (light levels at the sensor). I translate this as 'better to be careful to just ETTL here to get bright tones & highlights retained' Simply altering ISO in raw won't in and of itself alter the tonal distribution of the shadows and highlights. Only a deviation of exposure: plus or minus from Normal (N) can do this. Or have I misunderstood your example here? I'd say digital ISOs are really just a convenient/modern way of visualising a correct/pleasing exposure on our camera screens - not a way to increase/decrease actual exposure. Many have argued that including digital ISO as part of the 'exposure triangle' is just plain wrong. So to answer the opening question you raise re noise at the start of the video I'd answer: Ideally, both! Lowest ISO possible, maybe in tandem with ETTR - that is judicious over-exposure (more light). Anyway, results-wise maybe we are actually in agreement - just using different terms to get to the same endpoint. ;) Anyway, great post - and thank you for stimulating my ageing grey-matter. PS The RawDigger app is invaluable in comparing actual raw data count and distribution, and as of the last update will open Canon CRM files for scrutiny. I recommend it! (not an affiliate btw). All the best.
Hey! Wow I appreciate the full attention you gave this. I actually don’t care too much now haha! I actually agree with you on pretty much everything. It’s incredibly hard to describe the complexity’s of all this. Changing ISO when shooting raw doesn’t change the data collected but many people don’t know it (save when a camera has dual native iso). Really all we are debating with ISO’s and expose to right or left is when important characteristics of the image might be threatened or when those characteristics are best delegated to a certain range of the sensor’s dynamic range. Basically saying that a higher iso is better for highlight clipping is only really saying the clipping will appear softer if data is recorded at ire values below 94 ire for example. So the clipping happens where there is still plenty of data to make it less harsh. The clipping is essentially artificial because the exposure raised above native iso. Saying that a lower iso is good for clean shadows is saying that data collected at IREs above a certain level will be clean from noise and have more detail. All you’re doing by using ISO instead of I need to expose left or right is making your life easier. You can look at it on the screen and know what it’s going to look like once recorded. All this is relevant for non raw recording and sometimes more important since you can really change exposure later one, not very well at any rate! I have the c70 and it has like 10:1 raw which I would have dreamed of 4 years ago. I don’t use it though! I just shoot 10 bit and often only in 2k! 🤣 But evidently these exposure concepts are very important for non raw! But then the dual gain on the c70 makes for some insanely clean shadows. You don’t have to worry about them. Only the highlights. One less thing to worry about! Nice! How are you liking the r5? I recently got the R6mkii as a b cam to the c70. I’m interested in testing it against the c70. It seems decent. I do miss the c series menu though! Going to move on the c200 soon. All the best, Rory.
@@SuperRawza And thanks for an extensive and detailed reply. We do seem to agree on the important points. ;) Complex indeed it all is, which sometimes can get in the way of an intuitive process. The C70 sounds lovely, but I'm sure you'd get lovely images out of any camera! The R5 has hidden strengths: but it's not the raw 8K I'd say. With careful exposure placement I'm finding that the downsampled 8K ( 4K-Fine) setting shot in Rec2020/PQ in H265 can look peachy - better than the C-logs I'd say. Shooting to a compressed format also makes one more disciplined at the point of shooting - and less post-processing too. But of course, you're right - none of this matters! I see you're getting on with life and getting lots out of it! Stay well.
THIS IS HORROR
I have the same exact mix, border heeler, same face just white on the body and black spots on each eye… really cute but hard to train when i have kids around lol 13 weeks old but learning.
Some things you do not notice until you do some heavy color grading. Iso 400 usually holds up much better than 1600
My girl penny is about to turn four months soon such a great mix of dog
Wow!
Hi Rory, Can I use this video as promo for my upcoming podcast with Bruce?
Sure mate, as long as Bruce is okay with you using it.
Can we get an update video?!? My border heeler male looks just like this.
I’d like to, in fact I started one like 6 months ago. Got a 3 month old daughter now so life’s currently a bit hectic. But yeah I’ll get it done at some point. 😝
I admit that I've watched this short video at least 20 times.
KLR productions need this video.
Just found one of these guys in my roses. I've never seen one before. I'm in the PNW.
Beautiful work Rory! That drone footage is gorgeous
Thank you! Blessed to get an actual sunset!
Wow, beautiful
In my Eurythmy sessions we have been working on the diamond excersizes xxx
I am inspired from the cinematography of yours, basically the closeups you use in your videos. We attempted a little. Would love to get a few critical thoughts. Thanks
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Absolutely Beautiful. My family enjoyed watching this.
Glad you enjoyed it
Really Awesome captures
im the one in the blue
yo im back
How wonderful to see all that water on that beautiful country. The filming is first class and shows that country in all it's glory. Thank you for sharing, makes my heart glad to see that system overflowing and quenching that parched land. Watching from far north Queensland. 🙏🏾😊🌺
Pleasure is mine, thanks!
Something I read or heard was that the best iso increments are 800 then 1600 then 3200, apparently the isos inbetween those can introduce more noise. Who knows if that’s true 🤷♂️😂
Love this! I have the c70 and only used it once but it’s so filmic, this looks so close to a film stock. Do you expose so you just miss clipping highlights?
Thanks! In this case yes, highlights just under 90 ire.
Support from Italy!
This is so cool! Thanks!
Good but... Weird skin tones...
Weird light can produce weird skin tones.
Eastern spinebill and red and white Salvias, nice :).
I really admire the blue banded bees :)
Wow, that was mindblowingly epic, I loved the sound.
everybody needs a cuddle.
I think they look nicer than the honey bee.
Incredible footage.
Thanks! All these years later I still can't top this one haha
Europe has miserably failed at inventing sacred dances...
How can they let this happen
It makes you ashamed to be an australian really
Looks good, how did you process it in resolve? Highlight compression curve, arri conversion lut etc? Tones look really smooth!
Thanks. Yes Resolve. I think it is a combo of arri and canon. I always use it. Like a 50/50 mix. Then correction applied in the node before the lut as well.