Natural Beauty

Sometimes you have to escape...

Starring 'The Lone Cypress Tree' check out my old friend 'Sunset Tree' back home vimeo.com/92588325

Captured from the iPhone 6+ and a few clips from the BMPC 4K edited on iMovie

Music from the Vimeo Music Store - http://ift.tt/1HXMHrZ

Technical and some tips:

My top tip for getting a clear night shot that looks like you captured it under the moonlight from your iPhone is to capture it in the daytime and lock the exposure and focus on the bright sky, see the ending of the film.

iMovie is a great App if you have an iPhone as you can bring the sound/music into the fore or background without the need for any sound mixing software.

Videoshop is a great App for colour grading your iPhone clips, you an easily bring out the colour and shadows from an under exposed shot. Remember to lock your focus and exposure when shooting and adjust your brightness when doing so to preserve as much details as possible.

I imported the BMPC 4K (after grading it on DaVinci Resolve) long clip from my Google Drive onto the iPhone and then split on iMovie, so you can easily use other clips/sounds to work on your mobile device. It's actually quite fun doing it tis way rather than your native editing software on the PC or MAC. Take some field sound recordings and you will have a great library to work with.

The Swiftcam ML 3 axis Gimbal for mobiles is an amazing must have for mobile film making and all those clips with movement cannot be done on the bigger cameras so easily, I recommend it any day.

The slomo does lose quality on the iPhone but works well when you have something in the foreground to focus on as the depth of field gives that background just a tinch of blur to mask the drop in quality.

There are some really great musicians on the Vimeo Music Store, Drazy Hoops, Broke for Free, Chris Zabriskie, Maya Solovéy, The Upsidedown, Nicole Reynolds and David Balize just to mention a few of my favourites.

Please feel free to ask me anything, there is one more film from my very short trip to the US still to come :)

Cast: The Film Artist

Tags: iPhone 6 Plus, BMPC 4K, iMovie, California, 17miledrive, Pebble Beach, Swiftcam, Gimbal, Cypress Tree, Slomo, Lone Cypress and Monterey