Best Fisheye Filmers Out

rojo.grande

rojo.grande

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Late night thread but I’ve been steadily re-watching every Simon knight and Mike carmazzi video available. After getting a little deeper into filming, especially skate inspired filming (vx1000/general fisheye shots) I’ve come to the general conclusion that these guys have it down the best I’ve seen. They both skate fluently and constantly, and their ski filming reflects it. They avoid buttshots (shots of the back of the rider that a fisheye will draw more attention to) the best in the game. The way they pick their lines, move the cam to keep the skier in frame / the front of their body towards the cam is unmatched. I know a massive amount of ski influence/ski filming influence is taken from skateboarding, and these guys pick routes as filmers incredibly. When you watch one of their projects it’s not just another century xtreme clip, it’s absolutely skate inspired and imo it looks incredible. If you ain’t seen their shit, do urself a favor and type that jawn in on the Tube.

ps I don’t skate whatsoever but hold a massive appreciation where these film techniques come from.
 
Best fisheye filmers in skiing imo

- Mike Carmazzi

- Liam Mckinley and John Hayes?

- Gustav Cavallin

- Simon Knight? think he films vx

- Oli when filming with an opteka
 
honestly eat the guts has the best fisheye filming out of any skiing video ever produced and this cannot be debated
 
14435268:switchlip2 said:
Sanch and Oliver’s shots are unmatched too
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Damn straight. Just didn’t mention em bc they’re well known. Olli has shot some of my favorite shit in skiing easily

14435271:Jems said:
Best fisheye filmers in skiing imo

- Mike Carmazzi

- Liam Mckinley and John Hayes?

- Gustav Cavallin

- Simon Knight? think he films vx

- Oli when filming with an opteka
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Nailed it knight shoots bc w Mazzi
 
14435272:EvanMeyer said:
Shane McFalls always had a great eye for shots

**This post was edited on May 8th 2022 at 12:32:54pm
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Shane will forever go down in the history books. He prolly got a lot of us into skiing w TC back in the day, he did for me at least. Dudes an absolute gem, he helped a ton setting me up with my new rig for next season
 
14435269:Jems said:
yeah with century xtremes which is literally point and shoot
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If anything an opteka is more point and shoot since it’s got 180° in the horizontal. Not the same with xtreme.

doesnt matter though… if you’re putting the skier at the absolute left/rightmost in the frame at the end of the shot on an opteka youre doing it wrong. With both lenses you end up (probably) having the same kinda finish pan on the skier… probably harder to coordinate the vertical pan on the XTreme since you have to do it a little more since vertical fov isn’t as great as an opteka
 
14435324:rojo.grande said:

i mean typing his name into you tube isn’t that hard but here ya go, start here
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I went on a binge of his videos the other day and realized damn are those videos sick even tho I’m not the biggest fan of all SD footage
 
Arttu keikkinne, forre’s filmer has imo some great HD fish shots especially since there not angles you’d usually see with fish.

Sonyhandycam’s fish shots have gotten so damn good over the past few years. Go watch his older stuff and his latest shots in the super unknowns or sensorial quartet. Lotta progression.

Not saying these are the best, but people who I feel should be mentioned.
 
14435456:WoFlowz said:
Arttu keikkinne, forre’s filmer has imo some great HD fish shots especially since there not angles you’d usually see with fish.

Sonyhandycam’s fish shots have gotten so damn good over the past few years. Go watch his older stuff and his latest shots in the super unknowns or sensorial quartet. Lotta progression.

Not saying these are the best, but people who I feel should be mentioned.
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For sure flowz I feel u here. I went on a dive of handycam recently and it’s Insane to see how much better his filming has gotten in such a shorty time. Valarie, tapeirl001 both oski cuts are so so so damn good
 
14435458:rojo.grande said:
For sure flowz I feel u here. I went on a dive of handycam recently and it’s Insane to see how much better his filming has gotten in such a shorty time. Valarie, tapeirl001 both oski cuts are so so so damn good
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Imo nevermind is a mad underated movie. Vv nostalgic feel/music choices. Love the real super 8. Plenty of B Roll and the Credits was amazingly put together. Only other ski/board video I can think of with a nostalgic and beautiful Patina like that is how dark blue feels by Brayden Bowley.
 
14435464:WoFlowz said:
Imo nevermind is a mad underated movie. Vv nostalgic feel/music choices. Love the real super 8. Plenty of B Roll and the Credits was amazingly put together. Only other ski/board video I can think of with a nostalgic and beautiful Patina like that is how dark blue feels by Brayden Bowley.
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i hate fake super 8 and appreciate the people who actually go through the pain of getting the footage
 
14435465:Jems said:
i hate fake super 8 and appreciate the people who actually go through the pain of getting the footage
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Real super 8 is just a million times better feel and look wise
 
14435465:Jems said:
i hate fake super 8 and appreciate the people who actually go through the pain of getting the footage
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Fake super 8 was the most played and shortest trend I’ve ever seen in skiing
 
not entirely just fisheye but strobecks filming is by far my favorite style of filming and every video it gets better and better.
 
14435593:kylersucks said:
not entirely just fisheye but strobecks filming is by far my favorite style of filming and every video it gets better and better.
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i just burped and threw up a little
 
14435593:kylersucks said:
not entirely just fisheye but strobecks filming is by far my favorite style of filming and every video it gets better and better.
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Strobeck barely Films fish anymore
 
14435593:kylersucks said:
not entirely just fisheye but strobecks filming is by far my favorite style of filming and every video it gets better and better.
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don’t base filming standards off strobeck
 
Skier filmers trying too hard to be skat vibin can get whack though. Some of the least smooth pushes into the rail after every shot in an edit makes it unwatchable for me.

Especially when it looks like they almost fell over and it's shaky just because "i must push the camera at the rail because thats the only way"

Idk that it needs to die but seeing it not in every shot would be a great place to start. Sometimes even with the sickest skiing I can't make it through an edit of its bad like that.
 
14435319:weastcoat said:
Also I think “best fisheye filmers” is the same thing as “best filmers”
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respectfully disagree, some of the best filmers never use a fisheye, but thats just my opinion.
 
Another name to add to this thread is Andreas oloffson. Dude has always had some of the smoothest cinematography in the game imo pretty sure he’s been shooting the bunch guys more over the years but this classic film of his never gets old

[video]https://vimeo.com/35380972[/video]
 
14436763:EvanMeyer said:
Another name to add to this thread is Andreas oloffson. Dude has always had some of the smoothest cinematography in the game imo pretty sure he’s been shooting the bunch guys more over the years but this classic film of his never gets old

[video]https://vimeo.com/35380972[/video]
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Love you too and the Kimbo movie was amazing
 
14436689:eheath said:
respectfully disagree, some of the best filmers never use a fisheye, but thats just my opinion.
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Respectable. I only say that because a lot of modern/ the next gen of filmers have fisheyes in their arsenal. Then again a lot of the filmers I know of are on the servo zoom cam wave which are the best video yielding / most convenient fisheye rigs.
 
14436770:weastcoat said:
Respectable. I only say that because a lot of modern/ the next gen of filmers have fisheyes in their arsenal. Then again a lot of the filmers I know of are on the servo zoom cam wave which are the best video yielding / most convenient fisheye rigs.
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I’m so tempted to get a GH5 purely for 4:3 HD but might setup a crop in Premier or green screen one into iMovie
 
14436785:WoFlowz said:
I’m so tempted to get a GH5 purely for 4:3 HD but might setup a crop in Premier or green screen one into iMovie
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Just replace whatever you have w the GH5. With the right cage and a handle an opteka looks beyond money on it
 
14436786:rojo.grande said:
Just replace whatever you have w the GH5. With the right cage and a handle an opteka looks beyond money on it
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I’ve got a baby HMC. Been looking at AC160s, HCX1’s and the GH5 purely because it shoots 4:3 hd native
 
14436787:WoFlowz said:
I’ve got a baby HMC. Been looking at AC160s, HCX1’s and the GH5 purely because it shoots 4:3 hd native
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Beagle films all fish on a gh5 now look at any of the recent shake junt vids if u wanna see sample footy

**This post was edited on May 13th 2022 at 10:06:27pm
 
14436796:rojo.grande said:
Beagle films all fish on a gh5 now look at any of the recent shake junt vids if u wanna see sample footy

**This post was edited on May 13th 2022 at 10:06:27pm
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Yeah he thinks the canon fish w/ metabones is wider than a XTreme which tbh if agree with. I could make a GH5 work but holy fuck a servo zoom lense costs more than my cam rn
 
14436729:fredyferl said:
Who are your favorite ski filmers? Curious to know
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There's a ton of great ski filmers, old and young and my comment came off a bit harsh towards fisheye filming because I do not dislike it, I just think people are far too fascinated with the idea of a fisheye. Like i really enjoyed Eat the Guts, it was so well done and it was just so raw. So I do enjoy that kind of filming.

But I also take a lot of inspo from people like Kevin Steen, Kris Ostness, PBP, Shane McFalls, Jake Strassman, Aj Dakoulas/Napes/Decker/4bi9/goodcompany, Paul Braunstein, Brady Peron, Landis Tanaka, the stept boys (chuck is on of my favorite DPs right now) Duncan Lake, Josh Berman, Ante Olofsson, Graeme Meiklejohn, Gavin Rudy, Jasper Newton, Sean Logan, Jeff Kohnstamm, Ian avery-leaf, Oli and Sanch, the list goes on and on, I certainly lefta few filmers out that I really enjoy because its late, so forgive me whomever I forgot.

I recognize that some of these filmers use fisheye, but my original point (maybe somewhat miscommunicated) was that fisheye filming is just one aspect and I don't think one aspect of filming defines someone as the 'best filmer'.

**This post was edited on May 14th 2022 at 2:23:01am
 
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