Funny clips from Maui and solo session with John Amundson

[ikitehi]

Maui has been surprisingly still good for this time of year, Waves starting to roll in on the north shore and lots of action still going down at Kite Beach.

Check it out and let me know what you think?

http://vimeo.com/32183577

Also check out http://ikitehi.blogspot.com/ for wind speeds and live cameras of Maui's local kite spots

[backcountry]

Nice video. Took my first lesson at kite beach when I was on mid tour leave from Iraq what seems like a million years ago. Would love to go back someday, kite beach, that is...Especially liked the end when the wind went flat-seen that numerous times at hood river. Haven't been caught yet, but I am sure I will...

[ikitehi]

Nice video. Took my first lesson at kite beach when I was on mid tour leave from Iraq what seems like a million years ago. Would love to go back someday, kite beach, that is...Especially liked the end when the wind went flat-seen that numerous times at hood river. Haven't been caught yet, but I am sure I will...

The wind actually picked back up in about 20 min after it died, and whatever kiters didn't roll up their lines out there relaunched their kite and made it back in

Don't worry maui will always be here for whenever it is you decide to come back...

[rightguard]

I like the video... what is your set up, camera, tripod??

[ikitehi]

All I got is this Sony HD Handycam with a water proof housing, but I can't figure hot how to get the good clips clean and stable when I'm using the waterproof housing...

As for the tripod its just an old chepo I got from a yard sale out here.

low budget all done on my apple but I like it it, kind of puts you on the beach from behind your computer.

[rightguard]

I've been trying to take some footage from an SLR which has been working but you can't zoom that far with the lens I have. Do you know how much zoom you have?

[Kamikuza]

Nice! Some good shots in there I dunno about "get your own kite" at 6:10 though that's a bit cold! Cool to see Flash too!

... what you want for the handheld stuff is a Steadicam of some sort - http://diycamera.com/stabiliser/index.html - is a bit OTT I think but that's the idea.

[ikitehi]

I've been trying to take some footage from an SLR which has been working but you can't zoom that far with the lens I have. Do you know how much zoom you have?

Not to sure what the zoom is on my Sony HandyCam but I've heard that the SLR's do pretty good with video. What do you have a Nikon or a Canon? What lens do you have?

[terror_cake]

Haha....I was thinking what the hell is the guy with surf board doing there...just notice he's teaching his student, cool system:D

[rightguard]

So I use a Nikon d7000...very nice video quality. I use a 200 zoom lens and you can't really see much if you're trying to shoot people in the surf out at Kanaha. I'm sure with a bigger lens I could reach they are just expensive.