A little cartoon quality lightbulb just went off over my head. I'm an old fart who doesn't think of youtube because back in the day, it didn't exist. You read stuff and then made it (or not). My youtube is my fishtanks. This makes me generally useless.
I used to make videos for Fluval, and they're still up on their ever expanding site. I found it hard because I didn't think "images". I'm a writer, not a photographer or visual artist. Different training - if I were 18 again I would have been formed by a different communication system. I might have been an aquascaper, but that is a relatively new part of the hobby.
So in house videos don't get me. I like the nature videos, underwater. I've spent many hours watching raw, unedited underwater video at Oliver Lucanus' place, and seeing the process by which he works. There's no fakery or bs there. It's a painstaking, honest process. In some habitats, he places go pro cameras around and then harvests them to see what showed up. In others he's operating the equipment as he's surrounded by the fish. Both produce footage that's really informative.
The man swims in places I'd think twice about dipping my toes in. But when you see what he sees, yeah, a lot of us would jump in too. I highly recommend exploring underwater videos, or streambank vids based on actual travels in the regions our aquascapes are intended to represent. And look for Oliver Lucanus books. They're good.
I used to make videos for Fluval, and they're still up on their ever expanding site. I found it hard because I didn't think "images". I'm a writer, not a photographer or visual artist. Different training - if I were 18 again I would have been formed by a different communication system. I might have been an aquascaper, but that is a relatively new part of the hobby.
So in house videos don't get me. I like the nature videos, underwater. I've spent many hours watching raw, unedited underwater video at Oliver Lucanus' place, and seeing the process by which he works. There's no fakery or bs there. It's a painstaking, honest process. In some habitats, he places go pro cameras around and then harvests them to see what showed up. In others he's operating the equipment as he's surrounded by the fish. Both produce footage that's really informative.
The man swims in places I'd think twice about dipping my toes in. But when you see what he sees, yeah, a lot of us would jump in too. I highly recommend exploring underwater videos, or streambank vids based on actual travels in the regions our aquascapes are intended to represent. And look for Oliver Lucanus books. They're good.
