Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I video

[Tony_B]

I've finally got round to putting my Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I video on YouTube:

OFD1Video

Made last year, this was my first foray into video and there are things I'd probably do differently now, but I hope it's worth seven minutes of your time.

 

[JeremyG]

Excellent, well done and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing 

 

[rhychydwr1]

Very good, some excellent shots.  Very enjoyable.

 

[jonnyrocketboots]

Definitely was!  Thanks for that, another  from me Tony!  One of my favourite trips is OFD.

 

[Fulk]

An excellent video, Tony, IMUO; it brought back many memories (all of them good), though I must admit that I'd use a harness and cow's tails on those traverses.
Although the use of hand-held (or helmet-mounted) shots has a certain . . . . oh, I don't know . . . immediacy? . . .I do like the fact that you took the trouble to use a tripod for many of the shots, which I felt was better; in fact you seemed to get the balance between hand-held and tripod-mounted shots right.

On a technical point, the video clips all showed the rock as it should be ? i.e. grey to black, but the still (presumably flash) shots showed everything up as browny-red, something I've noticed with digital photography / flash . . . I wonder why?

 

[flexx]

Great video Cheers for sharing 

 

[Les W]

Fantastic Tony! Excellent stuff!
You've really captured the atmosphere of the place. This is why I cave in OFD, probably the best cave in Britain... 

 

[Hunter]

Excellent video, not having caved for a while and watching this, I think I'll have to dust the kit off now & get underground!

 

[Tony_B]

On a technical point, the video clips all showed the rock as it should be ? i.e. grey to black, but the still (presumably flash) shots showed everything up as browny-red, something I've noticed with digital photography / flash . . . I wonder why?

Think the answer to this might be different areas of the cave, rather than anything technical to do with video or flash. The streamway, Bolt Traverse and so on are in the black/grey limestone but much of the 'upper series', where I used stills, is in the reddish-brown rock.

Having said that, the first sequence of stills with camera sounds (shot in Starlight Chamber) was shot with uncoated flashbulbs, which have a light output similar in colour to that of tungsten light bulbs. I did, though, correct the RAW files before I used them in the video and Starlight Chamber is definitely red/brown.