{"id":4275,"date":"2019-02-09T21:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2019-02-09T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:33:11","slug":"china-a-trains-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/china-a-trains-eye-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A Train’s Eye View of China"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

An experimental video shot on iPhones.<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Train travel in China is pretty great. I’ve ridden several, from regular commuter trains, to high-speed rail, and even a brief ride on a Maglev<\/a> from Shanghai to the airport. All have been very nice and the high-speed and Maglev are super smooth rides. The stations are incredible, too. Many are brand new and feel more like decent-sized airports. They operate efficiently and I find it a great way to get around China.[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”4283″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_text_separator title=”Arriving at the Xi’an station for a train to Hanzhong, April 2018.” color=”orange” style=”dotted” border_width=”2″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”15″][image_with_animation image_url=”4282″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_text_separator title=”However nice your train is, the one on the next track is always nicer.” color=”orange” style=”dotted” border_width=”2″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]On my most recent China trips, I’ve started shooting slow-motion video out the train window on my iPhone whenever we approached a station. It started as an experiment — a way to pass the time on a long ride — but I really liked the look of the resulting video. I mean, it’s just phone video, it’s not like I’m making great cinema here, but I like the way the motion of the train feels like a long dolly shot<\/a>. I believe most of the stations I included in the video are found between Shanghai and Hangzhou or Jinan, but there might be a few scenes from around Xi’an and Hanzhong in Shaanxi Province, as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working more and more in Adobe Premiere and was looking for a little project to experiment with — no pressure of a client’s expectations, just a chance to play with the software and try some new things out. I remembered these clips on my phone and thought I’d try stringing them together to see what happened. Again — it’s not art — but I kind of like the results and, better yet, I learned a few new things. You can view for yourself below:<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”15″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/316285091″ src=”“https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/316285091“” width=”“640“” height=”“360“” frameborder=”“0“”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”15″][vc_column_text]Music: “Enter In” by Hyson<\/a> — Free Music Archive<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”100″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text] An experimental video shot on iPhones. [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Train…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103,47,104],"tags":[54,107,106,105],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-transportation","category-travel","category-video","tag-china","tag-iphone","tag-train-stations","tag-trains"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xwru-16X","jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/chinatrain01_snell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelcsnell.com\/travelphotographyblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}