Fiat Lux (Let there be light)

joli
Joli voyage. Merci pour les commentaires sur les autres vidéos.

Sibel
Goodmorning Eric,

I voted you over 5 stars, good luck :)

Best Regards,

eric.stemen
Thanks for the comments Daniel and Ryan, and also thanks for acting at talent in the video! Turning on a bright light in a cave is always a unique experience(at least for me). With a headlamp I can get a pretty good idea of how a room looks, but like you said "With a proper light a cave comes to life".
To bad more of the grotto didn't get a chance to see the room with the pit lit up(the first part of the video)....it was much more impressive in real life.
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It's also a shame the video is being voted down so much, but I guess other people are either using proxy servers to keep their own score up and other people's scores down, or they just know a lot of people who are willing to help them vote.
Thanks again, hope to go caving very soon.
eric.

Daniel
Eric, I really enjoyed this video as well especially the way you make a person feel like he/she is in the cave because of the great quality. With the proper light, a cave comes to life even more than when your exploring one with a headlamp. Too bad others are just giving you a bad ranking because they can't handle your level of competition and they fear how great your video depicts the power of light. lol
And I agree with Ryan, I can't wait until we go underground again. Great job with the video and I really like the beginning as well with the Petzl introduction.

Ryan
Eric..awesome video man..Everytime I watch it im amazed at the quality of the video and your talent..Way to go man..cant wait till we go underground again..

eric.stemen
Thanks everyone!
Cat: I used between one and two lights for the video.
The main light I used was a 150W HID powered by a car battery and an inverter....taking that through caves was a pain but thankfully I had help from some friends and the Fort Knox Grotto.
My second light source was a 48W LED bank. For that light I used a 12V 12AH battery.
Carrying the small Jib and tripod through these caves was also a challenge but it brought life to these stationary objects.
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Thanks for you complements also Don. I've been slacking on making this into a long form documentary, but I've recently been working in Louisville for a new production company and have been spending most of my time there editing. Since I've started this job I realized how much I enjoy editing(previously I enjoyed editing but then around the time I started to use Avid I suddenly disliked it).
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I need to start working on this again. I really like your idea with the virtual tour of Mammoth Cave and taking visitors to areas they can't go. I know WKYU PBS just did a documentary on Mammoth Cave so I'll need to check that out next time I go down there to see if their video is similar to that idea.
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TV stations would be incredible to have them play a long form of this.
Thanks again.
eric.

Don
Outstanding! You should contact KET/Kentucky Living about doing an episode on our magnificent caves. I bet National Geographic/Discovery/TLC or others would be interested as well. Or how about a documentary for Mammoth Cave National Park to give visitors a virtual tour of other area caves that are inaccessible to most people. You are a truly gifted luminary of videography.

Cat
Looks very sharp - how did you power your lights?

Alan
Great video!

anoritap
The music, and scenery is superb. Liked the narrative that went along with it.