I was visiting at my friends at Brasov, Romania and decided to make my first video only using my mobile phone. The phone is Nokia N8. The lightness of the phone made it difficult to make stabilized video even I had my manfrotto travel steady cam with me. The time lapses was still successful for my opinion.
Programs I used
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5(Main Editor)
Adobe After Effects CS5(for stabilization of some footage)
Adobe Lightroom 3.3(Data manage and Timelapses)
Neat Video Plugin(for reduce noise)
Edit: I forgot to tell how to Interpret the footage before adding to timeline. So basically you need to interpret the footage if your framerate is showing like 500 frames per second. So select all video clips and select modify-> interpret footage and write frame rate to 25 frames per second in Europe at least. In US you might need to use 30 frames per second.
I had my GoPro attachments that I used to attach my mobile phone to tripods, suction cup and steady cam. The program I used in the phone for time lapses was FastMotion that I bought from OVI store.
I had my first summer holiday in this year, though it was only for a week, but I went traveling into Romania.
I visited Brasov and Bucharest cities, yeah, one week is quite short time, but still I had a great time there. In Brasov I had one that I knew from Internet and we agreed to see each other. This person turned very good friend of mine, and hopefully we will see each other again.
But to the subject. It’s interesting when people don’t seem to see Romania as good place to travel. I would say that the change of being robbed is pretty much as big as many other places. Big cities are of course the most easiest places to get robbed. For myself, I didn’t got that insecure feeling during my trip, but I did hear one photographer got her subclasses stolen in small village. I understood that it was gypsies village. I also got warned many times from those gypsies that can stole easily my camera and other things also. Well, of course is person is poor then it may easily be the easiest way to earn some money. The culture of gypsies is quite interesting and many Romanian seem to hate the imago the do for other native people. Well, I have to admit that even my parents called and SMS to me just to find have me get robbed already. So at least the imago is quite bad shape at currently.
Still I found that Romanian people are mostly friendly and try to help as much they can, of course some older people still don’t speak English and those younger people that can speak, are little afraid of using the English language. This is a bit same in Finland also and about 10 years or so it was basically the same.
So what there is for photographer, well a lot. I only spend there for a week and I feel I just scratched the surface. In Brasov there are many old buildings, nature, mountains, fountains, forest, waterfalls and not mention the people. Romanian people are much closer than Finnish people, but of course all know that Finnish people are very distant and quiet.
Brasov
Brasov is a small city between the mountains, there is a lot of old buildings and culture. I went there first because I knew there one person and I wanted to meet her. I managed to contact her at the evening. We started walking there daily and started to know each other better. At the first day we went to center. There is this nice street just in the center what is full of shops and cafeterias.
In the center there is at least one relative big park where I saw at least two couples and families taking wedding portraits, so it seems to be quite popular place to get married. There are some beautiful flowers everywhere.
I would still say that the most thing I remember from Romania is that how peaceful and beautiful city it is.
Bucharest
What to say from Bucharest, well not much. It is relative big city among others. Some things still managed to find from there even I was only very short time there. At least there was quite many parks that balances the other traffic and noisy city environment.
I think I will visit in Romania again and look for other things in Bucharest also, I think the city has its potential and probably there is lot more to see also, but for time being most from this trip I’m remembering Brasov. Big thanks to this is of my new friend Denisa, I hope to see you soon again.
Here is pictures in Nokia Ovi where I uploaded several pictures taken with my mobile phone.
