Morning Has Broken Music Video

Something else that I have never tried was a music video.  I personally thought that it wouldn't be that hard.  I was wrong.  It is very difficult.  However, I learned alot from the experience and if I ever do another, I will be sure to apply what I learned!

Anyway, here is the video.  My two sisters, my brother and I were the ones that did it.  My sister Grace played the guitar, my other sister Keri, did the other instruments.  My brother Seth worked the bounce boards and I did the camera work and sound mix.

I was really amazed at how much color I could put into this video.  I think that I was able to make it look very close to morning.  By the way, the sun wasn't real....I added that too!  Since we filmed it around 8 a.m., the sun was already up in the sky too far.

Here are some before and after pictures to show how much color I was able to bring back and the fake sun:

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What are your thoughts?  Does something stick out to you as neat or wrong?

Panorama

One thing that I have never tried to do was a panorama.  So, I decided to try one:

Here are the three images that I used as well as the images joined together, without all of the color grading as so on:

I was amazed at the fact that I was able to bring back the clouds so much!!  Also, I should clarify, I used Photoshop and After Effects to make this.  After Effects was used for the color grading and the actual stitching together of the images as well as the sun.

Photoshop was just used to get rid of some of the seam problems.  I would have done everything in Photoshop, but it kept wanting to crash on me.

Anyhow, have you ever tried to do a Panorama?  If so, I would love to hear about it!