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Hey there!

I’m X Almendarez and this is my nth attempt on a blog. Hopefully I post something that might interest you.

Caramoan Video

Caramoan Video

Hello!

Wow, I don't have any backlogs already on the video department haha! 

Technically my fourth travel video, the Caramoan video has a lot more firsts than any of my previous ones:

  1. First to feature a local place
  2. First to include the extended family
  3. First to use all my current video equipment: iPhone 8 plus, Zhiyun Smooth Q gimbal, and DJI Spark. This meant that I had more stable shots at 4K resolution and underwater and birds eye view shots
  4. First time to use (a semblance of) color grading

The accompanying write up to this video (coming soon! After the write-up to the Tokyo trip) is entitled Perfect Storm at Caramoan and it is truly that - the weather cooperated, I mostly stuck to using a gimbal for my handheld shots, I remembered to use 4K and I finally (after more than a year) used my drone for a travel video. The background music is very well suited although I almost used Kokomo. Haha. Really learned a lot as well, especially in filming the underwater and aerial shots. Hopefully, I can shoot with all of my equipment again so that I can apply the lessons that I’ve learned from this one but for now, I’m quite pleased on how the video turned out so here goes. Enjoy!

Dodging the storm at Caramoan!
Two Years in Tokyo

Two Years in Tokyo

Tokyo Crossover MV

Tokyo Crossover MV