{"id":508,"date":"2019-12-04T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:53:53","slug":"exploring-chernobyl-with-a-video-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Exploring chernobyl with a video camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first attempt at shooting a video in the Chernobyl zone (January 2018) was not very well planned. I simply strapped my elderly GoPro 3 to my chest at let it run as I wandered around. I figured that I could just cut out the bad bits when I got back home. Actually there turned to be rather a lot of bad bits and when I had finished cutting them out I was left with about nine minutes of VERY wobbly video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_32215\"  width=\"474\" height=\"267\"  data-origwidth=\"474\" data-origheight=\"267\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lesy1IG8sbU?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" data-vol=\"50\"  title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next time I visited (January 2019) I was better prepared. I took a handheld gimbal and shot the video on my Smartphone. It is amazing the difference that the stabilization makes. The final video is twenty three minutes long &#8211; very much on the upper limits of what close friends and family can be cajoled into watching.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_38722\"  width=\"474\" height=\"267\"  data-origwidth=\"474\" data-origheight=\"267\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOTyx-SLU3E?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" data-vol=\"50\"  title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first attempt at shooting a video in the Chernobyl zone (January 2018) was not very well planned. I simply strapped my elderly GoPro 3 to my chest at let it run as I wandered around. I figured that I could just cut out the bad bits when I got back home. Actually there turned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/?p=508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring chernobyl with a video camera<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colorgrinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}