having seen some footage from others on what looks like a go pro have given it a crack with a mate and have found that it looks much further away than anticipated, has anyone got any tips on how to film? wanting to use it also to work on technique etc.
Cheers!
T
You have to get quite close for what your after because of the fish eye lens I think. .
Just get a mate ( one who you won't feel bad if you crash into them ) to film and you will get that closer shot your after 
I always shoot in 1080, wide, and 60-120 fps. I tried 720 wide at a high frame rate and that is ok. I recently tried medium and narrow and that sucks.
If you start of with high specs then when you edit you can zoom in and slow stuff down etc. If you shoot on medium or narrow then you're stuck with what you shot in the first place and usually the good bit is off the edge of the frame.
Just make sure you wear your gopro everywhere. Pre kite, mid kite, post kite, at the bar, in the shower, peeling potatoes for dinner, on the dunny, at the birth of your first child, during your wedding, when your wife gets a promotion, when your wife gets fired, when your wife gets angry about something, at the hospital when your grandma has her life support turned off.... EVERYWHERE!!!
With today's technology, you don't want to miss a thing you see.
Further to Chris_M's humourous but very accurate comments, consider tagging yourself with a GPS, linking it to your drone copter (you obviously purchased this add-on at time of gopro purchase), and have Big Buzzer follow you about your daily activities. you can then spend hours of your life editing a magnificent movie, for which you will get 8000 youtube hits and for a short time imagine you are famous. just squat under an umbrella if you crup in the dunes. please.
if you have the 3+ u can film in 2.4K normal view at 25fps, then u can crop it to 1080p
get many angles as you can. one angle is gay and boring. get normal footage as well. don't use shaky footage, ensure the lens wont fog up. have something non moving in the shot.
for goat sake don't have a 2 min intro followed by 30 seconds of footage followed by 20mins of bollocks.
keep it short unless you are a legend. nobody wants to see more than 30 seconds of the same boring style.
Don't upload 300 videos of the same type of footage/style. mix it up with different stuff.
Lastly boost some insane jumps of some massive waves. Nobody post boosting in waves anymore and that is just wrong.
Her indoors take on it " just buy a mirror.. its cheaper and will satisfy any narcissistic tendencies to the same affect if mounted correctly "
So the $480 is still tucked away 
Select to expand quotePlummet said..
Lastly boost some insane jumps of some massive waves. Nobody post boosting in waves anymore and that is just wrong.
What else do you use waves for?
Select to expand quoteChris6791 said..Plummet said..
Lastly boost some insane jumps of some massive waves. Nobody post boosting in waves anymore and that is just wrong.
What else do you use waves for?
I just don't know? pretending to be a surfer perhaps.?
