Aloha Tom! Just beautiful and stunning. I shoot surfing in Hawaii with the Komodo usually shooting at 4K 60 fps w the Salty Water Housing. Did you use a lighting setup? Looks so good! I subscribed so keep up the good work. You're inspiring me!
Hey mate thanks for reaching out! The Komodo's such a beast, glad to meet another user! This was shot in 6K40, in a Nauticam housing with a Wide Angle Conversion Port. I've also got 2x 10,500 lumen OrcaTorch video lights on here for lighting. Glad you enjoyed mate!
Thanks for being so quick to respond! We have such beautiful underwater life in Hawaii. I started my journey 25 years ago shooting in the water. Before the iphone or gopro I had a kit. Mostly for surfing but I did buy an Amphibico Phenom for my Sony Z1. Just no lighting. I never used a light fearing it would temporary blind our ocean critters. I guess the main thing is not to do it everyday to the same creatures in my home break of Makaha. Tourist boats moor there for the sealife.That light is cheap! Did you have someone hold the light? Or just just mounted it? Great stuff@@TomPark
@@PakeSalmon I did some work in Hawaii years ago and loved it, your underwater world is stunning. The lighting topic is an interesting one, i've actually got a few videos on this, but largely research has indicated that lighting doesn't effect marine animals any different to how it affects us. Most animals, i.e. turtles and sharks venture near the surface regularly, with rays and turtles breaching for air/fun etc, and as such have eyes that are designed to deal with sun bursts through the water, and direct sunlight. Which is obviously far far greater than video lights. Most marine life live in the top of the water column in that 5-10m zone, and also are accustomed to sun rays and bursts through clear water. Where this becomes an issue is if lights are used in excess on animals that aren't surface animals, such as nemo or seahorses etc. These animals have far less light accustomed eyes, and excessive use may (we're not sure, but likely do) have an impact. But yeah anyways, food for thought, the dive housings have plenty of mounting points with clamps etc :)
Good explanations! I won't feel bad using them. LOL. I'll check out this light and get to some shooting before the waves come! My side of the island is West Oahu. Very clear! Thanks again for the inspiration and yeah I'll mount mine. Mahalo!@@TomPark
I just got my new Komodo and still exploring what it can do! I am curious about how you focus under water. Your footage is stunningly beautiful and nicely in focus, closeups and wide? Manual or do you use the auto? If you use manual, are you set up to adjust focus underwater?
It’s such a beast! And yeah all in manual, I’ve got a focus knob/ follow focus system built into my underwater housing. Im using nauticam, in the raptor housing. Glad you like the footage! Thanks
Hi Tom! The color and dynamic range are divine, but I noticed that most of the footage is shallow… wonder how it does when you have less light available… also, do you use an ND on the Komodo?
Thanks mate! We have a manual focus gear on the housing and use similar systems to topside with focus peaking etc - there’s a lot to worry about in addition to being underwater but the result is epic!
In hindsight, 6K may have been too much for UA-cam to compress 😅 viewing in 4K still looks epic though!
Don't sweat man, the 4K looks unreal
Nah 6k oversampling is perfect here
Stunning footage! And I love 1:11, that's the money shot right there :)
Thank you really appreciate this! Haha the macro shot - I’m not a macro fan but I do really like that moment! 😜 thanks again
man, it's videos like this that make me wish youtubes compression wasn't so agressive lol. Bloody beuatiful mate. That shot at 4:14 was 🥵
Haha yeah, I think maybe I overestimated youtube's ability to handle 6K! Thank you Ashton, super glad you enjoyed!
Stunning video Tom! One of the best I have seen on UA-cam!
Thank you Scott, really appreciate this mate!
Incredible, great job at featuring these beautiful creatures.
That RAW-Footage makes for gorgeous color unter water though. 🤩
love your work Tom - stùnning footage (the lighting😮!)
Thank you Brigit! Really glad to hear! 🙌🏻🎥
oh dude, absolutely killing it! WOW
Thank you Jimmy, stoked you enjoyed the showreel 🎥🙌🏻
Saw this on Reddit but cant commet there... so awesome.
Beautiful work Tom!
Thank you Peter! Really appreciate it mate
One of the best videos I've seen on UA-cam! Absolutely phenomenal!
Glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
UNBELEIVABLE!!! So incredibly beautiful and superb cinematography.
Woooow this is amazing, I hope I can do something like this soon!!! Great video 👏
Footage is just beautiful, absolutely loved this!
Thank you, really glad to hear!
Stunning footage! Makes me want to go to Komodo
Thank you! Stoked you enjoyed, and I’m super happy with how it all works, surprisingly the ease of use, but most importantly the image is unreal!
Looks gorgeous, well done!
Stunning
Really glad you enjoyed! 🙌🏻🎥
Absolutely Stunning 😍
Thank you Dave glad you enjoyed!
Wow this is so beautiful 😍✨
Thank you so much!
Aloha Tom! Just beautiful and stunning. I shoot surfing in Hawaii with the Komodo usually shooting at 4K 60 fps w the Salty Water Housing. Did you use a lighting setup? Looks so good! I subscribed so keep up the good work. You're inspiring me!
Hey mate thanks for reaching out! The Komodo's such a beast, glad to meet another user! This was shot in 6K40, in a Nauticam housing with a Wide Angle Conversion Port. I've also got 2x 10,500 lumen OrcaTorch video lights on here for lighting. Glad you enjoyed mate!
Thanks for being so quick to respond! We have such beautiful underwater life in Hawaii. I started my journey 25 years ago shooting in the water. Before the iphone or gopro I had a kit. Mostly for surfing but I did buy an Amphibico Phenom for my Sony Z1. Just no lighting. I never used a light fearing it would temporary blind our ocean critters. I guess the main thing is not to do it everyday to the same creatures in my home break of Makaha. Tourist boats moor there for the sealife.That light is cheap! Did you have someone hold the light? Or just just mounted it? Great stuff@@TomPark
@@PakeSalmon I did some work in Hawaii years ago and loved it, your underwater world is stunning.
The lighting topic is an interesting one, i've actually got a few videos on this, but largely research has indicated that lighting doesn't effect marine animals any different to how it affects us. Most animals, i.e. turtles and sharks venture near the surface regularly, with rays and turtles breaching for air/fun etc, and as such have eyes that are designed to deal with sun bursts through the water, and direct sunlight. Which is obviously far far greater than video lights. Most marine life live in the top of the water column in that 5-10m zone, and also are accustomed to sun rays and bursts through clear water.
Where this becomes an issue is if lights are used in excess on animals that aren't surface animals, such as nemo or seahorses etc. These animals have far less light accustomed eyes, and excessive use may (we're not sure, but likely do) have an impact.
But yeah anyways, food for thought, the dive housings have plenty of mounting points with clamps etc :)
Good explanations! I won't feel bad using them. LOL. I'll check out this light and get to some shooting before the waves come! My side of the island is West Oahu. Very clear! Thanks again for the inspiration and yeah I'll mount mine. Mahalo!@@TomPark
I'll just buy one light and take it from there. Once again thanks for the inspiration! @@TomPark
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Stoked you enjoyed! Thank you!
how many fps was recorded? is awesome!@@TomPark
Everything was shot in 6k 17:9 at 40fps
It looks great, I’m really happy with the 40fps look!
Mitakon just released a 20mm 1.0... light be good for separating the backround more...
I just got my new Komodo and still exploring what it can do! I am curious about how you focus under water. Your footage is stunningly beautiful and nicely in focus, closeups and wide? Manual or do you use the auto? If you use manual, are you set up to adjust focus underwater?
It’s such a beast! And yeah all in manual, I’ve got a focus knob/ follow focus system built into my underwater housing. Im using nauticam, in the raptor housing. Glad you like the footage! Thanks
Thanks, Rock On!
Amazing work , which underwater casing did you use ?
Hi Tom! The color and dynamic range are divine, but I noticed that most of the footage is shallow… wonder how it does when you have less light available… also, do you use an ND on the Komodo?
Dude!! How do you nail focus underwater??
Thanks mate! We have a manual focus gear on the housing and use similar systems to topside with focus peaking etc - there’s a lot to worry about in addition to being underwater but the result is epic!
@@TomPark I want your job
It’s a lot of work, with no days off, but I love it!