no way that is wicked eye footage challenged me to make something cool using just this the
h01 C4 RGB light challenge accepted eye footage challenge accepted one of the coolest things that
I have access to here in Alaska in some places at certain times of the year are Glacier Ice Caves
Glacier Ice Caves are really cool because of all the little facets in the ice reflect the light in
really different ways and I thought it'd be really interesting to use this RGB light to see what it
looks like when you're Illuminating a cave with not just white light which I've done before but
RGB light that's changing As you move through the cave I thought that could be a really cool effect
I spent a lot of time looking for Ice Caves that I could get to that are close to my home that are
accessible and safe unfortunately I couldn't find any that I could get to because of where we are
in the winter right now it's kind of this weird in-between time when the lake and the rivers are
not necessarily Frozen completely solid so it makes getting to some of these places a little
bit difficult but there is an ice cave that I know of up in the mountain range about 300 miles away
from my home that is accessible pretty much year round and now that it's cold and it's definitely
been colder up there it is safe time to pack for cameras we're bringing the Sony Alpha One as our
main photo camera and the Sony a7s3 is our main video camera for lenses we're going to bring the
24 to 105 F4 the 24 millimeter F 1.4 and the 20 millimeter F 1.8 we're also going to bring the
mavic 3 because I definitely want to try and get some drone shots as we make our way up there and
maybe some at the cave we're gonna bring lots of extra batteries and lots of hand warmers
because I fully expect it's going to be really cold and of course the star of this particular
video the hl1 C4 RGB light from ifootage my tripod of choice for this is the peak design
carbon fiber travel tripod all this is going to be packed into the think tank mine shift
26l backpack and of course we're gonna need a lot of warm clothes another challenge challenge
is that the weather service has just put out a massive winter snowstorm warning we're supposed
to get about 16 inches of snow here tonight in Anchorage and that may cause issues with
the roads but I'm determined to go I called a couple of friends and a few of them even said
yes that they would come with me so armed with boundless optimism and a lot of enthusiasm we
piled everything into the car and set out to go have this Great Adventure [Applause]
is crazy things [Applause]
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we've made it as far as with Summit Lake right that's where we are yeah Summit Lake which is
pretty close it's uh just yeah but right by the Richardson Monument pretty close like 20 miles
away from the glacier and the wind is howling like 20 25 miles an hour blowing snow across the road
really hoping it's not like this where we gotta hike out to the glacier because that will make
for a miserable hike this is where the weather presented several challenges one the temperature
had been steadily dropping and getting colder since we left Anchorage from about uh 18 to
20 Fahrenheit it was now in the single digits which is not exactly ideal for hiking through
the woods for a mile and a half in the snow the Second Challenge as we got even closer to our
destination was that the wind was getting worse and worse and worse we had to stop holy crap I
don't know you could hear any of this we had to stop to uh do I oh my gosh that's cool to give
you an idea of how hard the wind is blowing and oh how cold it is oh my gosh it is I really hope
it's not doing this in the glacier because that is going to make it miserable if it is [Music]
we arrived not as windy as it was but it's still blown pretty hard and it's seven degrees which
means the wind chills what do you think minus 15. minus 10 minus yeah [Music]
well we decided to go for it I just got a headlight up I gotta have John and Teresa back
there in the pitch Blackness that you can't see what's crazy is it's like only 5 p.m and it feels
like midnight but because we're back in the trees it's not as windy it's still not like calm or what
I would consider to be a nice winter day but it's not bad right overall it's not bad so I know we've
gone maybe a quarter mile we got a mile and a quarter to go and then let me get there hopefully
but the trail the trail is almost invisible because the snow has blown it over
so it's really like walking along by feel of where you can feel the solid snow on the bottom
foreign
and then finally slowly appearing in the darkness
was the massive entrance to the ice cave that we'd been looking for
foreign
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it is considerably warmer and less windy here which is great so now we're going to
set up the camera and start with doing some uh long exposure shots with the
light from ifootage to see how those turn out I think we'll be able to get
some really cool stuff so it's one of my favorite things to do to Ice Caves I mean
in general light painting is really cool so we'll start with that and see how that goes
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anything you do order so let's jump back into the video those photos turned out really really cool
I was shocked at how well the RGB reflects off the fastest of the eyes it did pretty much what
I hoped it was gonna do but way better and way more like I just the amount of color reflecting
off the ice is really really cool but I really wanted to try and get a video uh basically like
us like a long shutter photo where you see the long streaks of light but do it in video so you
can see the light travel through the cave and the light reflecting off the surfaces as the
light travels around so I don't know like like what if you like light trails and it's true like
live streamers kind of traveling through the cave so my thought is to use snq mode and set
it at one frame a second uh then conforming to 30 and then I'm sure we'll have to do some crazy
stuff with it in editing but I think if we can do this right it'll be a really really cool effect
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now you're going to want to watch this video right here to learn other ways you can do
really awesome video and photo work till then if you have any questions ask me in the comments
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we just have about two miles to hike out it's the middle of the night it's five degrees the
wind is blowing hard so if you're seeing this video we probably made it out cheers