Course Maps Please

[Rick Brown]

Schweeet!!! Just needs Benny Hill theme music to finish it off.

Thanks, Rick! "Yakety Sax" is the tune.

I had a coworker who had it as a ring tone. I wonder what ever happened to him. }:) }:) }:)

Chasing (or being chased by) well endowed women all the time?

[Mike Kazmierczak]

Schweeet!!! Just needs Benny Hill theme music to finish it off.

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It flows pretty good.

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[Mako Koiwai]

Great!!!

[Arthur Grant]

As usual, somewhat off topic, but here are the first results of an experiment ... doing a GoPro Time Lapse as we walked the Divisional Course on Saturday late afternoon. 2 Frames Per Second. Nick Bjoin then tweaked it so that the time equaled a lap time. It's quite wiggly. Next he's going to see if he can run it through some video stabilization software to smooth it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYTl5UKDnc

Actually if your one of those people that go around the course on a bike or scooter, you could do the same using the gopro on the handlebar mount, but isn't that somewhat like preruning the course?

[Arthur Grant]

My favorite so far is the guy how prints out a copy of hte runways from google maps sat images, and draws the course on that.

[John Stimson]

That's how I design my courses!
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[Steve Ekstrand]

As usual, somewhat off topic, but here are the first results of an experiment ... doing a GoPro Time Lapse as we walked the Divisional Course on Saturday late afternoon. 2 Frames Per Second. Nick Bjoin then tweaked it so that the time equaled a lap time. It's quite wiggly. Next he's going to see if he can run it through some video stabilization software to smooth it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYTl5UKDnc

Next time put the gopro on something with wheels (stoller, bike, wagon....) and push it around the course.

[Mako Koiwai]

Now that's starting to smack on Unsportsmanlike ... not that it would make me any faster ... and my photo package buyers would expect a copy.

[Mako Koiwai]

So here is how one could do a "perfect" time lapse/stop motion Course Walk ... see the Making Of vid after the main event:

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/07/23/rem ... s-america/

[Mako Koiwai]

Not bad John ... looks a little "flat" ... just kidding ...

I can't remember which of these tech studies that Pete Loney did for us allowed one to actually fly through the course.

[John Stimson]

Not bad John ... looks a little "flat" ... just kidding ...

Yeah, well the capability to do topography certainly would help when designing courses at Candlestick!

[Mako Koiwai]

What we really need is 3D AX video's ... to get that sense of depth. A colleague has created this Quad 3D rig using ContourHD cameras ... that allows him to shoot the same scene wide and tight at the same time using different sets of lenses:

[Mako Koiwai]

We need a permanent "sticky" Foto Funnies thread so I don't have to keep hijacking other threads!

Since when has Jason U taken up golf? Seen here coaching Robert E.



Photo and joke courtesy of SteveE

[Will Kalman]

Since when has Jason U taken up golf? Seen here coaching Robert E.
Photo and joke courtesy of SteveE

LOL

[Steve Ekstrand]

I told the kid he was the doppelganger for a friend of mine... No reaction... Then I told him Jason was a big deal in the video game industry. Instant interest.

[Greg Peng]

What we really need is 3D AX video's ... to get that sense of depth. A colleague has created this Quad 3D rig using ContourHD cameras ... that allows him to shoot the same scene wide and tight at the same time using different sets of lenses:

Can you ask your colleague what he does about wind noise with the ContourHD cameras? I used my new one at the last event and the wind noise was HORRIBLE. I'm thinking of returning it for that reason alone.

[Mako Koiwai]

That's why I choose the GoPro HD Hero ... but in fact it's sound has been terrible also, while Henry's ContourHD IN A Bunny Suit has the best AX sound I've ever heard ... perfect tire and engine sounds and nothing else. I've got to get me a little vermin that I can skin and stuff with our GoPro.



Jon's is not furry enough to be effective in cutting down wind noise:

[Mako Koiwai]

Typically on my friends pro shoots sound would be recorded separately ... different union. ;)

But Henry's set-up proves you can go the non-union route. (private joke between Henry and I)

[Jonathan Lugod]

it cut it down pretty significantly from all my previous attempts! even an external mic wasn't effective

[Bob Beamesderfer]

Most of the quality issues I've heard with audio have to do with overmodulation, ie, the volume overwhelms the recording amp. Some kind of electrical attenuator, what used to be called a pad, would help. Maybe -20db.