… when you have it all on your doorstep? It’s just a few mouse clicks away.
The Framepool library includes breathtaking landscapes in remote locations. We have exotic locations such as “the mud volcanoes of Qobustan”, the ”Sary-Kum” sand dune in Kazakhstan, or the “Kljutschwskaja Sopka” in Kamtschatka.
Whatever unusual landscape you need for your production: the keyword “Hidden Places” will take you to the far corners of the globe.
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Fascinating footage of wild animals from up close. We proudly present our “hunter” to you, one whose quarry extends beyond big game.
From lions to iguanas, Benjamin Sadd is always stalking wild animals somewhere in the world. Shying away from neither hardship nor risk, he steals through the steppe, dives in the ocean, flies over forests and crawls through the jungle to pick up the trail of all kinds of wild animals in their natural environments.
Ben’s trophies don’t end their days mounted to living room walls with glassy-eyed stares. We preserve them for you as superb 4K nature videos that can be licensed online directly in the Framepool shop. Following the maxim “take a picture, not a trophy”, the dedicated scientist deploys his cameras as weapons in the ongoing struggle to protect nature and conserve threatened species.
At the moment, Ben is filming in Siberia – and we are eagerly waiting for his spectacular new material. A true sharpshooter who misses nothing. Don’t miss him!
Footage by Benjamin Sadd, exclusive to Framepool
Growing up in a place like Hawaii with a magic attraction for surfers means getting to know the ocean. And waves. And everything happening on and off the shore. The events and iconic stars of the legendary scene around the “Pipeline” are a home fixture for surfer Eric Sterman and his camera drones.
The biggest waves in Hawaii break on the north shore of O’ahu in the winter and create perfect conditions for amazing tube rides. Year after year, they attract the best surfers in the world – to compete against one another. The tight-knit community comes together once again, one with its own rules not open to just anybody.
As a North Shore local, Eric Sterman is very much an insider and known by everyone. He is as obsessed with the quest for the perfect wave as everybody else here, but unlike the others, he chases it with drones. Now one of the most celebrated cinematographers in the scene, he shoots for prestigious brands and supplies us with incredible exclusive footage of gigantic waves and conquering heroes.
Having grown up surrounded by natural wonders, he has high expectations when it comes to filming them. Eric travels through the entire Pacific region with his unmanned aerial systems and brings us the most beautiful waves, beaches and landscapes in HD and 4K. He also takes us to the dream weddings of friends and right through displays of exploding fireworks.
Everybody on Earth should see the film “Before the Flood”, the National Geographic documentary on the consequences of climate change made by Oscar award winners Leonardo diCaprio and Fisher Stevens (director). Starring Ban Ki-moon, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Pope Francis … And our footage, of course – anything else would be unimaginable given Framepool’s longstanding focus on this area!
Typhoons, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods – when nature shows itself from its violent side and people and animals flee to safety, this young man packs his cameras, heads for the epicentre of the affected area, and shoots.
When he climbed up onto the roof of the highest building in a small Vietnamese town during a typhoon warning ten years ago, instead of taking refuge in the cellar with the residents, people declared him mad. That was the first time the “storm chaser” was able to sell footage he had put his life on the line to shoot. An idea was born, and James made his hobby into a career.
The Englishman now lives in Hong-Kong. Now in his mid-thirties, he is already a seasoned natural disaster cameraman and has shot footage of over 50 typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones and their impact. But that doesn’t seem to have been excitement enough for him: a few years ago, he also started tackling volcanoes belching fire and dust.
We have the wild and visually stunning footage captured under these extreme and risky conditions in HD for you – and we can also supply lots of it in 4K. Hold on tight!
Footage from our specialist for all things wild, exclusively from Framepool
Using stock footage helps save the environment a vast amount of CO2. And you don’t have to cut back on quality. We have the whole world available from Film, HD to 4K. So you can see Mother Nature like you’ve never seen her before.
Splendidly stage-managed by the agency McKinney, with sexy footage from Framepool:
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All footage shown can be licensed here
“Cousteau Diver” Didier Noirot submerges with 4K into the realm of Neptune
Fulfilling his childhood dream as a scuba diver on Jacques Cousteau’s team, was the stepping stone for Didier Noirot (photos below, in the middle with Captain Jacques Cousteau) that led him into an exciting life filming the world’s oceans. His imagery can be seen in the Emmy awarded BBC documentary series “Planet Earth” produced by Mark Brownlow and David Attenborough. Today, Noirot is counted among the best underwater filmmakers in the world.
A pioneer when it comes to underwater HD cinematography, these days Noirot films with the Red Epic camera. We are very excited to be able to present his unique footage shot in 4K within the Framepool webshop.
Among other techniques, his distinctive style includes close-ups of marine animals and long steady shots. His Red camera floats through the blue underwater world as if it was a marine creature itself, following sharks, circling shoals of fish and “dances” with dolphins.
Footage from Didier Noirot on Framepool: Footage by Didier Noirot
Footage used in this showreel: footage.framepool.com/en/shots/7570898836769987079
Thomas Markert and Sven Schmid are not only engineers and filmmakers, but also extreme sports athletes and globetrotters. Our newest team of footage suppliers have created jaw-dropping HD footage with self-constructed multicopters containing active gyro-stabilized systems. No matter what terrain they are faced with, the two founders of “Aerovista” are able to handle their drones with ease and apparently have no fear of heights! Watch the reel but be aware, it’s not for the faint of heart.
Aerovista shoots with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, almost entirely in the lossless Cinema DNG Raw format. 13 stops of dynamic range make it perfect for creative color correction and showing each single detail of both snowy peaks and dark valleys.
By the way, if you prefer the raw material, you can get it from Framepool on request.
From an early age, Thomas Markert loved to build and construct remote control airplanes and rockets. As a designing engineer for aircraft engines, Thomas gained expert knowledge which he then put to use to professionally develop Aerovista camera copters.
Mountains have always been the passion of Sven Schmid. In his book “Journey into the Unknown”, Sven writes about his bicycle adventure, a trip from Argentina to Canada. Dr Schmid’s knowledge is based on many years working as design engineer in aerospace technology in Germany, the USA, and in Brazil.
Aerovista Footage online at Framepool and ready for download
Autumn is here. The time of the year when nature is bursting with magical colors. The sun is shinning in a completely different angle through the leaves allowing for many possibilities to capture the beautiful images and we have done just that in our Autumn Showreel. Of course our stock footage online-shop offers a variety of other fall themes.
Volcanoes fascinate but spread fear and terror at the same time. They can devastate whole regions during a very short timeframe, but also provide the basis for new life. The lava emerging from a volcanic eruption gives rise to islands and creates mineral-rich soils where plants grow well. Thanks to these fertile soils, roughly half a billion people worldwide live in close proximity to active volcanoes. Many of them are well aware of the danger – but they take this risk in exchange for abundant crops and warm thermal water. Especially on Iceland and in Japan, bathing in hot springs is very popular. But not only the physical well-being benefits from the hot water, it is also being used for energy production.