I created a travel web-series "Where in the World"
Jan 7, 2016, 7:51 am
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I created a travel web-series "Where in the World"
I Created a travel web-series called "Where in the World" Check it out and let me know what you think. The first episode follows my wife and I around India.
Jan 7, 2016, 9:23 am
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Nice. I've spent some time in India - it brought back memories! A few suggestions, though:
- Lose the intro (up to about 0:40) or cut it to five seconds max. (Added in edit: Maybe 10. But nowhere near 40+.)
- Try to hold the camera so it doesn't shake as much. Various kinds of grips may help in this regard. People in the Travel Photography forum may have suggestions.
- Don't pan quickly across a group of people or whatever. If you don't want to pan slowly, edit out the move. Quick pans are disconcerting.
- Captions would help. Most people recognize the Taj Mahal, many recognize the Baha'i Lotus Temple, but where are the other locations?
- If you show a person, try to show his/her face. There's a segment with the carved elephant seller that is mostly his and Amber's bellies. I know you wanted to focus on the elephants, but in that case zoom in much closer, so the people aren't as big a part of the picture. The in-between zoom doesn't work.
Please post more of them!
P.S. A grammar tip: If you wouldn't say "follows I around India," leaving your wife out of the sentence, don't say "follows my wife and I around India" either.
- Lose the intro (up to about 0:40) or cut it to five seconds max. (Added in edit: Maybe 10. But nowhere near 40+.)
- Try to hold the camera so it doesn't shake as much. Various kinds of grips may help in this regard. People in the Travel Photography forum may have suggestions.
- Don't pan quickly across a group of people or whatever. If you don't want to pan slowly, edit out the move. Quick pans are disconcerting.
- Captions would help. Most people recognize the Taj Mahal, many recognize the Baha'i Lotus Temple, but where are the other locations?
- If you show a person, try to show his/her face. There's a segment with the carved elephant seller that is mostly his and Amber's bellies. I know you wanted to focus on the elephants, but in that case zoom in much closer, so the people aren't as big a part of the picture. The in-between zoom doesn't work.
Please post more of them!
P.S. A grammar tip: If you wouldn't say "follows I around India," leaving your wife out of the sentence, don't say "follows my wife and I around India" either.
Last edited by Efrem; Jan 7, 2016 at 10:55 am
Jan 7, 2016, 11:38 am
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Nice. I've spent some time in India - it brought back memories! A few suggestions, though:
- Lose the intro (up to about 0:40) or cut it to five seconds max. (Added in edit: Maybe 10. But nowhere near 40+.)
- Try to hold the camera so it doesn't shake as much. Various kinds of grips may help in this regard. People in the Travel Photography forum may have suggestions.
- Don't pan quickly across a group of people or whatever. If you don't want to pan slowly, edit out the move. Quick pans are disconcerting.
- Captions would help. Most people recognize the Taj Mahal, many recognize the Baha'i Lotus Temple, but where are the other locations?
- If you show a person, try to show his/her face. There's a segment with the carved elephant seller that is mostly his and Amber's bellies. I know you wanted to focus on the elephants, but in that case zoom in much closer, so the people aren't as big a part of the picture. The in-between zoom doesn't work.
Please post more of them!
P.S. A grammar tip: If you wouldn't say "follows I around India," leaving your wife out of the sentence, don't say "follows my wife and I around India" either.
- Lose the intro (up to about 0:40) or cut it to five seconds max. (Added in edit: Maybe 10. But nowhere near 40+.)
- Try to hold the camera so it doesn't shake as much. Various kinds of grips may help in this regard. People in the Travel Photography forum may have suggestions.
- Don't pan quickly across a group of people or whatever. If you don't want to pan slowly, edit out the move. Quick pans are disconcerting.
- Captions would help. Most people recognize the Taj Mahal, many recognize the Baha'i Lotus Temple, but where are the other locations?
- If you show a person, try to show his/her face. There's a segment with the carved elephant seller that is mostly his and Amber's bellies. I know you wanted to focus on the elephants, but in that case zoom in much closer, so the people aren't as big a part of the picture. The in-between zoom doesn't work.
Please post more of them!
P.S. A grammar tip: If you wouldn't say "follows I around India," leaving your wife out of the sentence, don't say "follows my wife and I around India" either.