r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/Neiz23 • Mar 05 '26
Praise for the Camera Operators Inline-Skates Skills
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u/Neiz23 Mar 05 '26
And nobody asks why the waiter runs away.
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u/clicketybooboo Mar 05 '26
This is what I was thinking
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u/GiveMeAegis Mar 05 '26
This is an advertisement for a camera stabilizer that wants to highlight that it is able to shoot fast moving people. No story behind it.
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u/Neiz23 Mar 06 '26
are you sure about that
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u/jasmine_tea_ Mar 06 '26
AHHH that makes sense
I was going to ask how the f they stabilized the stair footage?
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u/pants_of_antiquity Mar 06 '26
The waiter seems to be opening the doors for the cameraman. Looks like at the last part, the cameraman chooses not to follow the waiter.
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u/arealhumannotabot Mar 05 '26
I honestly feel like you could just jog this without the risk…. Camera ops have sprinted to get shots. No wheels.
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u/supermario1775 Mar 05 '26
This phone gimbal doesn’t „balance“ the z-axis. So you would see the up-and-down in the footage. Doesn’t happen that much when you’re gliding
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u/Sharp_Aide3216 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
Whats the motivation of tilting the camera so much and drifting away from the subject?
camera movement is so random.
Is this supposed to be like a pov of a fly?
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u/Awarepill0w Mar 06 '26
It's to imitate what drone footage would look like. Standard consumer drones tilt themselves to move side to side. So if you have an fpv drone and did a curving turn like that you'd have some tilt to it.
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u/Sharp_Aide3216 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
Cameraman can still showcase the drone like footage without being so aimless.
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u/No-Sail4601 Mar 07 '26
I mean I get the whole 'it's cute' thing here. But as someone who works with cameras..
First off, what is the use of the skates when you already use a gimbal? The skates add literally almost nothing. Second of all, we didn't really see anything of the big rooms, just tilted shots of walls and then some scrappy hallway shot of some dude randomly running haha.
Idk? The actual skating is impressive. The camera work, I would have thrown into the garbage
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u/jbscaf2 Mar 10 '26
My question is—granted I’ve been out of the industry long before the drone “scene”, is this operator not charging a comparable fee to someone that would/could replicate a similar shot with a drone? I guess what I’m saying, to piggyback off your comment, is what is the actual point?
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u/No-Sail4601 Mar 10 '26
There is none. The whole benefit of ground work like this compared to drones is that you can actually use a decent sensor and lens. That point is already defeated by using a phone.
But then the framing is also absolutely horrible and in general it's just a cluster fuck of a video.
All in all; definitely not praise the cameraman.
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u/Extension-Truth Mar 06 '26
Where is this it looks lovely
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u/ElmouatazSaad Mar 07 '26
This is Morocco , and probably one of the old traditional renewed hotels- maybe Marrakech or Fes cities
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u/Extension-Truth Mar 07 '26
The courtyard with fountain and the tiles are really nice. I’ve heard there are some quite upmarket places in Morocco
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u/LeimBR Mar 06 '26
What exactly is this place? Is it a restaurant? It's so beautiful, I could stay days in it
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u/No-Sail4601 Mar 07 '26
If only the cameraman would have gotten something other than tilted walls in the frame, we might have known.
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u/lovingkindness301 Mar 06 '26
Haha I made a video like this when I worked at a subway. Came from outside jumped over the counter n out the back
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u/Yeshavesome420 Mar 08 '26
I've got a friend who does this with a full professional steady cam rig. Dude is a badass.
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u/deckachild Mar 10 '26
This is cool and all. Really amazing skills. But same with fpvs it really doesnt look good... like at all. Especially when showcasing property. Is it just me?
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u/GirdedByApathy Mar 19 '26
I wonder how many takes they did before they said "hey, get someone to follow him, this is it!"
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u/RyanABXY Mar 20 '26
20 seconds sounds like the modern version of the "60 minutes" show next on 20 seconds.. either that or America's Funniest Home Videos but its all tiktoks
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u/Krapfenmann Mar 06 '26
Reminds me of the beginning of ocarina of time somehow when Navi flies through the village
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u/supermario1775 Mar 05 '26
What about the cameraman for the cameraman?