I had a crazy idea and it was slightly narcissistic. I wanted to point the time lapse PMW-EX1 XDCAM at myself as I worked. I wanted to see just how many times I whipped panned, tilted up, got a red tally, moved around the platform and touched the controls on my hard camera at Fenway Park.

The end result was what I would assume a rabbit would look like if given a pound of caffeine and a few lumps of sugar. I do like Red Bull.

I placed the camera on an old Vinten Vector 100. I extended the tripod as far as I could so that it would place the lens up over my shoulder and frame me with the game action going on in the background.

I also used my letus and a star filter that produced a four point star.

You can see the first set up (of two) where the EX1 is pointed at my hard camera. The green monster was in the background behind me.

Ahh.... I do love the golden hour. Great light hitting the EX1. I have said that the Sony PMW-EX1 with the Letus Extreme 35mm film lens adapter is worth its weight in gold. I absolutely love shooting with them both.

I set the camera to record one frame every ten second that passed by. I still have not experimented with the under cranking feature on this camera. The technique I had used on this short was called interval recording. I hope to try the under cranking method on a future time lapse. I think it may show the rapid motion of my camera in a more smooth and realistic way.

I looked up to the light tower to my left and saw “The Hawk”. This is the very same hawk that attacked a girl on a Fenway Tour about a week before opening day. This red tailed hawk had a nest just below the press box and was defending her one egg. The nest was moved by environmental officials and relocated. I think the bird is still pissed off. One of my favorite parts of the game is watching the hawk flying over the crowd with a dead bird or rat in it’s talons. There are two of them.

You can see that I have a telescope for a zoom lens. The camera had a 75x telephoto zoom with an extender that doubles that! It is pretty sweet!

Perhaps someday somebody will pay me to follow a bird of prey instead of a Rawlings laced baseball.