Promotional video for Planet Scuba Mexico showing both the training and aesthetical aspects of Mexican cave diving
Filmed and Edited by Katy Fraser
Filmed by Marielle Pronk http://siriusdiving.com/
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The GoPro hero 6 has some major benefits over it's predecessors, namely it's low light capabilities. I placed it to shoot behind the scenes of the shoot the other day where we experimented with coloured lights. I am a little dissapointed I couldnt get the whole room in frame as the oranges and reds further down do really complete the rainbow effect! So you will have to wait for when the videos start to emerge. I think what is really interesting about this video is it really shows the flow! The roots look like branches in the wind and it was actually quite tiring placing light that day. In Mexico we are usally spoilt with little to no flow but I suppose that's what DPV's are for! We had a lot of fun zipping around using them to facilitate placing light.
As you can see from the divers going back and fourth, shoots take a lot of time, effort and patience. Building sequences can be repetative sometimes, especially underwater where you have lots of variables.
Thanks guys for your time as always, I'm very grateful!
#gopro #cavediving #timelapse #dpvcave #underwatershoot #stalacmites #stagecave #scubadiving #cavediving #fourthelement #nauticamhousings #goprohero6
Here is a video still to give you an idea of the scale of one of the sections we lit up today! The tree roots in Nohoch along with the formations worked so well with the various colours of lights. I am so excited with the initial results and to go and shoot more sequences with this theme 😁 nothing like when a plan comes together!
Big thank you to @makitomx for supporting the shoot with Suex DPVs and Zero Gravity Dive Center , it was great to be able to give the @halcyondivesystems 'Zero Gravity' unit a try with steels and also very grateful for your contribution of some video light 🙏
Photo @shedivestech
Lighting @maurocaveworld
#bigbluelights #lightmonkeylights #halycondivesystems #cavediving #dpvcavediving #nohochnachich #cenote #scubadiving #tulum #mexico #stagecavediving #nauticam #panasonic #gh5s #4k #picoftheday #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure
All lights gelled and making final touches to today’s story board on way to divesite 🤞🤞
Light gels!! Tomorrow’s mission ... rainbow caves 😍 #cavediving #underwaterfilming #lightgel #ideas💡
T-minus 2 days until back to Mexico 🇲🇽 lots of ideas 💡 and lots of things to shoot 🎬🎥 #theseareafewofmyfavouritethings #panasonic #nauticam #xdeep #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure #cavediving #sunshine
@mammut_swiss1862 2.0 have arrived! Sad to say goodbye to to my old lime greens, they have now been relegated to dry caving status for August. Ready for some Cenote finding and the #dolomites now @maurocaveworld with you and penny 🐶 🤗 #hiking #mammut #drycaving #adventurestartshere #ayako #goretex #absolutealpine
Little holiday to the lakes for dads birthday 💛 climbed that big hill in the background this morning #lakedistrict #catbellssummit #summer
So going to start building up a new diving skill! Will be super useful for some natural history shoots I have coming up this year. It is so amazing 🙌 to have such talented friends! @naomigittoes your fins are so insanely beautiful!! Thank you 🙏🤗💛 #naomigittoes #freediving #finstagram #magic #artwork #diverfins
Road tripping to the lakes with sister 🙂 #mini #tetris
The colour and decoration 😱
Photo @shedivestech
Lighting @maurocaveworld & @shedivestech
#nauticam #panasonic #gh5s #cavediving #stagecave #xdeep #fourthelement #bigbluedivelights #earthporn #buceo #pictureoftheday #underwaterphoto #underwaterphotography #stalactite #stalagmite #cave
This particular room in Mosquito factory was extremely tricky to light, it is so heavily decorated that it took around 25 minutes to carefully place the video lights the length of the passage. Shooting is also hard as the cave forces the divers to swim in a close procession to not loose anyone behind a formation or risk damaging anything ... but I think they did a great job! You can see everyones happy smiley face 😁
Photo @shedivestech
#cavediving #stalactite #stalacmite #biglbuedivelights #lightmonkeylights #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure #nauticam #panasonic #gh5s #caveworld #xdeep #buceo #earthporn
Starting to work through post and here is another shot from Xulo the other day. I have atleast one more to share and if you put them all side by side it's really cool how the cave changes so dramatically literally from room to room.
Photo @shedivestech
#cavediving #nauticam #panasonic #gh5s #stagecave #scubadiving #bigbluelights #lightmonkey #fourthelement #xdeep
After a relatively short hike into the jungle you come across a diamond the in the rough. Despite the Mosquitos and mud the aptly named 'Mosquito factory' is totally worth it. Beautiful formations and opalescent passages await the other side of a very silty mucky tannic cenote after all the rain. Nick, Alina, Mauro and I spent two hours lighting the cave and shooting film marking an end to Nick's trip and training for now with @maurocaveworld !
Photo @shedivestech
Lighting Katy Fraser & Mauro Bordignon
#nauticam #panasonic #gh5s #cavediving #jungle #mexico #cenote #underworld #scubadiving #sidemount #xdeep #fourthelement #photooftheday
Little hike in the jungle to shoot Mosquito factory today 😊 #cavediving #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure #nauticam #panasonic #xdeep 📸 @maurocaveworld
My favourite shot from todays shoot! We spent 175 mins in Xulo today trying to do it justice. It's a spectacular cave with it's many variations in typography. @nick.clifford.91 has just finished his stage cave course with @maurocaveworld and what a way to celebrate 😁 definitely surfaced super happy, but also with a whole list of shots that I still want to get.
Photo @shedivestech #fourthelement #equipmentforadventure #xdeep #lightmonkeylights #bigbluelights #cavediving #scubadiving #cenotexulo #stagecave #photoofthday #underwaterphoto #nauticam #panasonic #panasonicgh5s
I am guilty sometimes ☝️ of wanting to dive only if I can take my camera. I spent a lot of time when I first started cave diving without it because I have ALWAYS wanted to be a good diver first and foremost. So here I am learning a new skill and becoming a better diver. Surveying is super fun and my azimuths were spot on :D looking forward to resurveying old cave and surveying new cave! Thanks @maurocaveworld for being a fantastic teacher as always ... not that this is massively in your interest for line laying or anything haha! 😉
If your interested in a cave survey workshop and working towards joining some amazing exploration projects give him a shout maurocavediving@gmail.com
#fourthelement #xdeep #cavesurvey #workshop #exploration #resurvey
So ... I quit! haha 😉
For sale one much loved:
Panasonic Lumix GH4 4k 16 megapixel body inc battery
Nauticam GH4 housing with vacuum/pump system
Nauticam 6" wideangle dome port
Lumix G X vario 12-35mm lens with zoom gear (for housing)
Floatation arms and clamps
Reason for sale is that I have upgraded! It's a great camera especially for high quality 4k film and has served me well. All my projects before April this year were shot on it if you are interested in it's performance. Housing has some general wear and tear but nothing that affects shooting quality. Camera and lens are in perfect condition!
PM if interested! #nauticam #panasonicgh4 #underwaterfilm #underwaterphoto #scubadiving #underwaterphotography
8 hours on the water today helping @jmadler document the local fishermen. It was a very interesting experience which basically consisted of two 200m lines with about 120 hooks with sardines on them. They would be thrown out into the water between two buoys and left about 30 mins when they would then pull up the weight and the line, unhook the fish and reloaded with sardines for round two, three, four ... 10? They caught around 15 fish in total, a mixture of trigger fish, grouper, grunts and snapper #thenatureconservancy #fishing🐟 #linefishing #documentaryphotography #jennyadlerphotography #fashionfirst
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