In June 2008 my wife and I were fortunate enough to take a 2 week tour of Alaska. Part of our journey included a land tour from Anchorage to Denali by rail. Once there we undertook a scenic flight around Mt McKinley (known to the locals as Denali), as well as doing the bus
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tour through the park for some wildlife spotting. We were very fortunate with the weather and got to see both the mountain, and the wildlife, including a number of Grizzly Bears!
On the technical side, shooting the wildlife in HD when they were a very long distance off (beyond the optical zoom of the camera even with the telephoto lens) meant that in post production, I was able to digitally zoom in and still get reasonable quality on some of the long distant animal shots. Coupled with the Mercali stabilisation plugin for Premiere CS3 it resolved the hand-held footage into something fairly watchable I feel. I am interested to hear other peoples opinions on this, particularly some of the bear shots.
Cast: Grant VK5GR
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