Steves Videos

Time lapse sunset drive

2011-07-18T08:39:00.000-07:00

Filmed using camera attached to car sun visor while driving from Benderloch to the Kirk on the shore of Loch Etive. My task was to capture images of the building at sunset and to liven things up I decided to film the trip.

Woolfest Benderloch

2010-07-11T23:40:00.001-07:00

A short film I made at Woolfest, the 2010 Festival of Wool held at the local market in Benderloch,
We see wool spinning and "waulking" - the ancient process of shrinking the newly woven tweed as practised in the Scottish Highlands and Islands accompanied by traditional Gaelic songs.

Yachts

2010-07-05T10:14:00.000-07:00

Filmed from our room at the Isles of Glencoe Hotel, Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands. June 2010

Anima Instrumental by St. Paul is licensed under a Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Still filming

2010-04-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted any new videos for a wee while - simply due to my editing software not keeping up with my new camera. I now have Adobe Premiere so once I've learned how to use it properly I'll start work on the backlog of potential short movies. Steve.

Flower Show 50th anniversary

2009-08-23T15:51:00.000-07:00

The 50th annual North Connel and District Horticultural Show was held in Benderloch on August 22, 2009. This is a ten minute video of some of the exhibits and awards.

30 seconds around Benderloch

2009-06-02T09:07:00.001-07:00

April 09 update

2009-04-30T06:55:00.000-07:00

I haven't forgotten this blog! I just haven't had time to make any movies of interest recently. As they say - watch this space.

Otters Feeding

2007-04-12T09:19:00.000-07:00

Wet day

2007-03-28T05:28:00.000-07:00

A road trip through the Highlands - on a stormy day.

Late snow - Glencoe

2007-03-24T12:48:00.000-07:00

Edinburgh - an artwork by Steve.

2007-02-11T06:18:00.000-08:00

A piece of video art by Steve Eccles.
(6 min 19 sec - 23-Jan-2007)

I'd been looking around several Edinburgh galleries' winter exhibitions and was fascinated by some video installations. Its a few year since I did any film or video work - the usual travelog sort of movie - and thought this new approach to the medium would be worth an experiment. The tools are so simple now as even modest digital still cameras can record reasonable quality short videos.

I had an idea for a short film - how to illustrate that being partially colour blind I sometimes have to concentrate on odd details in a scene, which can lead to interesting effects in my artwork. So I decided to ignore the usual grand views of Edinburgh Castle and the gardens and concentrate on the street and what happens there - especially since last year's changes banning the daytime use of the road by private cars.

So armed with a tiny Exilim X60 camera and my walking stick (plus my idea) I took a walk along Princes Street, shot some video and stills and completed the set with some views from my hotel room (which happened to overlook the street). That evening I put most of the movie together in the hotel room, using an Acer tablet computer, and finalised it later at home.

I now present the finished version of "Princes Street in Colour". All the sounds are "real time" and the optical effects deliberate. I find it intriguing that to get the best aberrations I needed to start with the best quality video. Obviously the quality would have been higher if I'd used a tripod and a pro video camera - but I wouldn't been able to get the shots I wanted if I had to lug all that gear around then set it up.

Being able to film with such compact equipment as the Exilim camera is an exciting development in movie production and I intend to experiment further.

Tralee Sunset

2007-02-11T06:16:00.000-08:00

A summer sunset over Tralee Bay.

One Minute of Tranquility

2007-02-11T06:11:00.000-08:00

A one inute long film of a peacefull evening overlooking Tralee Bay, Argyll.
Sit back and relax....

First Post

2007-02-11T06:02:00.000-08:00

A simple Welcome.

Here I shall present some videos.

Some arty, some touristy, some just fun (I hope).

Enjoy.