Hello
today I am back here in the studio to talk to you about
bike mounting your camera.
Adorama TV presents
Capture the Action with Martin Dorey.
Hello my name's Martin Dorey and you are watching
Adorama TV - I'm back in the studio today with my trusty
and somewhat rusty old bike to talk to you about bike mounting your GoPro
camera
I've also been out on the trail with my daughter Maggie.
Now - we've all seen crazy footage
of people on their bikes from all kinds of angles
we're gonna look at how you might get some of those today and we're also going
to look at some other angles that might add some
extra power to your action sequences now
the GoPro camera is a pretty amazing thing it's light
it's small, it will allow you to mount it just about anywhere
and that means it's really versatile, that means that is only your imagination
stopping you from getting some really crazy stuff. Now this is the classic view
we've all done it mount your camera on your helmet
look forward it's a point of view shot - you kind of see
what the rider sees.
That's great, it looks really good the other option you could go for is with the
chesty harness
we've actually talked about this in previous episodes, the camera is mounted
on your chest here you get a slightly different angle
you see your arms it's a bit more immersive
you see what's going on it's really exciting.
Now, the advantage of shooting on body mounted camera's
is that your body acts like a shock absorber
so will take some of the lumps and bumps out of your footage
however it's not always the most interesting angle.
Now what I want to concentrate on today
is actually mounting your camera on your bike and there are various ways of doing it.
So what I want to concentrate on now is mounting your
GoPro camera on your bike because you bike is
the perfect camera platform, now with one of these
which is a handlebar mount and a 90-degree angle
you can mount your camera just about anywhere on your bike
on handlebars, on the crossbar, the shot
looking back from the seat tube is fantastic.
The Handlebar mount along with the 90 degree angle will allow you to mount
your GoPro camera just about anywhere on your bike
on all but the thickest of tubes and if you want to mount
on thick tubes then you use a Roll Bar Mount - it would do exactly the same thing
get almost any angle.
looking back at the Rider is a classic one or also
looking back at a rider behind you from the seat is
even better, now your remote control is going to be quite useful here because if
you've got your camera mounted
somewhere down the back here, getting
a shot of the person behind you or a nice shot of your gears changing you not going to be able to
trigger it - mount the remote control on the handlebars
and you can fire off shots when ever you need to.
But what about get some other angles - look you can mount this thing
anywhere on your bike when you cut together that sequence you gonna get some great stuff.
Now I went into the woods with Maggie and we shot
at 1080 super view at 60 frames a second, check it out
That's all very cool, but how about trying something
a little different take one
standard Monopod - add
a tripod adaptor a 90 degree mount
and some gaffer tape and you can create
all kinds of crazy angles. This rig
could be and is, really
really useful, the only challenge
really is making sure you get the angle right -
that you don't see the rig itself - but can you start to see the possibilities?
What a great angle that's going to be. Now we can play around with this as much as we like
and we have - and here's the result.
Well look, the thing is there's nothing to stop you from creating new
angles with your GoPro
all you need GoPro camera little bit of kit
and a lot of imagination ... Go for it!
Ok, that's it for now thanks for joining me on Adorama TV today.
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