The Old Gaffers festival is a local festival for old Gaff-Rigged sailing boats. Its been running for as long as I can remember, and as well as the boats, there is also a french market, loads of art and craft stalls, classic cars, bouncy castles, etc. All in all a rather good weekend, thats before you even get to the beer tent with over 40 real ales, and Rob Da Bank and the Cuban Brothers playing. Top notch.
This actually happened the beginning of the month, but I’ve only just got around to processing the photos…
With the growth of shooting HD video on DSLRs, there are now a whole world of very slick videos being made all over the place ranging in subject and quality from cats to cars. The current camera of choice is the Canon 5d mkII, who’s rise as an affordable and serious alternative to film HD with started with Vincent Laforets ‘Reverie’ back in 2008, and who’s mainstream credits also include the ‘House‘ Season Finale.
With the now apparent ease of filming in HD, its always refreshing to watch something that makes you think more about whats being shot, rather than what its being shot on. With this in mind, I found a video shot by two freedivers, Guillaume Néry and Julie Gautier called ‘Free Fall’. The fact its shot on 5dmkII really is irrelevant, as the cinematography, location, content editing, and music all come together and make for a rather spectacular video. Citing itself as fiction and artistic concept, its proof that its much more important to have an idea and vision than to have equipment. I like to look at it as an example of a crossover between photography and video, producing something with the artistic vision of a photograph, but with a moving subject. Other examples of this crossover that spring to mind is the Oracle scene in 300. I’m not really that up on free diving, so for more info click on the links above for all the how its done blurb (some in French).
