Immersive Media – Vail Corp.

Our second shoot for Immersive Media, we used their proprietary 360 degree video camera to capture ski runs and amenities at Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breckenridge.

Attaching the camera head to the ski boom rig

D.P. Craig Adkins on a segway shot at Beaver Creek

Craig balances the head on the Immersive gimbal mount back pack

Tracking with the kiddies…

Craig on the wild ride at the tube park!

Prepping a shot with our ski models on the hill

Follow cam in the terrain park

Multi shot sequence of huckers in the Breckenridge terrain park

Immersive Media – Texas A&M University

This was our first shoot working with Immersive Media, a Portland based company that has developed a 360 degree camera. Its basically 11 cameras mounted in a cylindrical orb. All 11 streams are fed into a backpack mounted, (or tripod mounted, car, etc), hard drive unit. Editors then “stitch” the streams together into a seamless virtual reality 360 degree shot. Pretty amazing stuff.

Shooting on campus with the custom, counterbalanced camera system

Very small adjustments to the counterbalance system really help it to float like a Steadicam

In the end zone at the Texas A&M football game

Early morning shot with the Ross Volunteers

The flag cadets are all business…

Taking down the flag at end of day

MasterCraft Boats ‘09 – Orlando, FL

This was our last of 5 shoots with Bump Films to complete MasterCraft’s 2009 running footage and promotional DVD, Rewind.

6:30a.m. call at the photo boat with a full moon overhead

Mark Bame of Bump Films shooting a tube set with Shane Bonifay

Rolling large in Park’s new X-Star

Parks and Shane Bonifay on the Butler Chain

AMA Motocross, Washougal, WA

The AMA tour stop at Washougal, WA did not disappoint this year. Chet Burks Productions covered the event for the Speed Channel. We had a total of 15 camera positions covering the race.

Camera position #6 on the track

Bubba Stewart dominates the whoop section…

Bubba out in front of the pack

The rest of the horde..

Insight Communications – Louisville, KY

This was our fourth shoot with Greg Wilson at Ryannacy Films. The goal was to produce a series of long format vignettes for Insight Communications.

1st A.C., J.R. Kraus secures a Sony F900 for a car mount shot

1st A.D. Kevin Hinds checks the shot in our Insight hero van

Sound mixer Bill “Shack” Shackleton and J.R. prep the package the first shot of the day

D.P., Denver Miller and Director Greg Wilson in the interview studio

Shooting in the Kentucky countryside

We had an opportunity to spend the day shooting at Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery

Denver and Shack with one of the large grain tumblers used in the distilling process

Each rotating tumbler is superheated to process the grain

Ghosts of times gone by are said to roam these storage warehouses built in the late 1800’s

Bourbon is aged for years in these charred barrels until its ready to be sold

MasterCraft X-Series – Orlando, FL

X-Series production stills from Bump Films 2008 shoot.

Every day starts on the dock before sunrise.

Morning glass in the X-Star.

Tracking stern shot thru one of the many canals on the Butler chain.

Rusty Malinoski from the Heli.

MasterCraft ProStar – Orlando Florida

Bump Films shoot for MasterCraft Boats.

Mark shooting in close quarters with an HVX-200 in a waterhousing

Sequence shot on the course. Its tight shooting with the skier passing by close to 60 mph!

History Channel – “The Axemen”, Vernonia, OR

Original Productions, (the production company that produces “Deadliest Catch”), is shooting a new show based on a similar format. This time they are covering the lives of career loggers in the Pacific Northwest. “The Axemen” will be a 13 part series airing this spring on The History Channel. Four camera teams are covering four different companies. I’m covering Stump Branch Logging, based out of Vernonia, OR. This site is a salvage logging job that Stump Branch is doing for the State of Oregon cleaning up a huge blow down area from our severe windstorm of 2006.Due to mountainside scrambling that each camera crew has to do, as well as danger to equipment, the show is shot in HDV with Sony Z1-U and V1-U cameras in 30p format. Six wireless channels of audio are being run to my camera via the units in my waist packThe “Yoader” is a combination yarder and loader that hauls logs up the hillside once the choke setter wraps the choker cable around each log. Once they are hauled up to the landing, a shovel loader uses huge clamping teeth to pick up the logs and place them in the staging area where they will be bucked, (de-branched) and cut into 40 foot lengthsLoggers start before sunrise every dayMorning mist from Roundtop Mountain<imgEJ and Ross capture a moment with Melvin and Michael of Stumpbranch Logging
Loggers affectionately call their work trucks “Crummies” as they are usually older 4 wheel drive pick ups they buy used for cheap. They get absolutely thrashed every day. Our crummy was a bit nicer, a new Ford F-150 on loan from Astoria

Malibu Pro Team Orlando

Malibu Boats produces a DVD each season that markets their new boats and pro team. An Arriflex Hi-Speed SR2 converted to Super 16mm was used to capture the action.

Malibu Pro Jeff Weatherall boosts a huge S-Bend

Barefoot in Orlando

This Arri SRII Hi-Speed had been hot rodded with tons of upgrades, a pleasure to shoot!

Southeast Shangri-La

MasterCraft X-Star Commercial, Orlando FL.

Bump Films teamed up with Alex Fostvedt and Mario Cater of Freeride Films to shoot the new MasterCraft X-Star commerical at Lake Wales, FL.

Freeride Films lastest Ninja Cam rig. This was rigged over a 800 ft. span across the lake.

Camera sled hooked up to the cables. A Panasonic HVX-200 was used to check the shot for the test run day. The commerical was shot in Super 16 with an Arri High Speed SRII.

Mark and Alex set up a shot with Mario behind controlling the sled speed.

Shane Bonifay doubles up for his afternoon set.

Florida sunset day one

Rusty Malinoski fractured his wrist the day before but decided to wrap his cast with one inch gaffers tape and ride anyway…

Florida sunset day two