Tuesday, December 27, 2011

On the way to Snow Shoe-GETTY UP!!

Space Stations-West VA

If you've ever been at Snow Shoe and thought, WHY THE HELL DONT HAVE HAVE CELL SERVICE.  The next thing you think is that adding cell service would be the first thing you think they would have set up.  Well this is why they don't have cell service up there.  I forgot the name of this place but it's basically a NASA type facility that takes photos using a GIANT camera.  When I mean giant, I'm  not joking.  This one you see above is at least 40 times smaller than the one I wasn't able to see / gain access too.  The reason you can't have cell towers around that area is because the radio waves disturb their signal to take photos.

Train Station-West VA

This is a random train station in the middle of nowhere.  We saw a redneck feeding his pet dear just 1 minute away from this train station.  It was very interesting.

Train Station 2-West VA

GO PRO 2-Review

My Family and I headed up to Snow Shoe, West VA for xmas and I thought that was the perfect time to test out my new Hero Go Pro 2 camera I got from Erin. I've used them before so I was pretty familiar with it's set up.  I also got the suction cup which was my fav of the accessories.  The first and only format I tested, I shot in 1080 30p and I stuck the suction cup on my hood looking into my jeep.  That worked VERY well and it was extremely stable.  I also used the head strap while driving to give a POV type look but I'm still getting used to the lens on it and I didn't have the camera pointing as low as I should've.

For snowboarding, it was great.  I of course used the suction cup on the front of my board.  That was cool but not GREAT.  I then held the camera when following Erin and my step brother Tom.  That came out pretty well.  As I said above, I need to get used to the on head feature because when boarding you could only see what's in front of me, not my board.

Overall, I love this camera and I will use it for paid work for double angles, surfing and other tight shots it's hard to film from.  I need to get a few more accessories then I'll be ready to go, bitches!!