I grew up next to Lyons Woods in Waukegan, Illinois, and to this day I’m still drawn back there. It’s a beautiful forest full of grand old oaks and strange rows of pine trees, and I know every inch of it. I recently had the opportunity to test a new brushless gimbal for GoPro cameras, and I knew where to test it.
I shot this video with a HERO4 Black set to 4K and Protune to give me extra grading flexibility in post. I reduced the focus in post to counteract the HERO’s sharpness, giving the footage a more cinematic feel. The poem in this video is one I wrote in high school, and is inspired by a winter walk I took in these same woods years ago.