# @karenxcheng on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B7lrZyDpFhh
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16472827-karenxcheng-instagram
- **Posted:** 2020-01-21T16:42:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Karen X (@karenxcheng) — https://gondola.cc/karenxcheng

## Caption

Go fish 🎣
Ok to repost with credit: karenxcheng 🔁 ⁣
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It’s very rare that I get a shot on the first try, but this was one of those lucky times. (Usually it’s multiple tests, location scouts, and iterating on the shot) ⁣
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getlostwithbrooks and I were looking for the perfect staircase to do this. It turns out, the famous staircase featured in Hitchcock’s Vertigo was right in our backyard in San Francisco! ⁣
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You might’ve noticed that the camera is spinning quite a bit, but the footage is stable. A year or two ago, it wouldn’t have been possible to do this shot with a fishing rod (or at least, it would have been very difficult) because of how much the camera spins when dangled on a single flimsy string. But over the last year, optical camera stabilization - and particularly 360 camera stabilization - has gotten insanely good. All those rotations you see the camera doing were automatically removed by the camera, leaving one glorious stabilized shot. ⁣
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Director: karenxcheng 
Fisherman: getlostwithbrooks 
BTS filmed by: bonam ⁣
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Location: hotelvertigosf 
Music: Ghosts by IMMNNC from Fugue 
Gear: insta360 One R (with 360 lens) and a random fishing rod I got on Amazon ⁣
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#insta360 #insta360oner #insta360onex #gopro #hypersmooth #spiralstaircase #hotelvertigo #behindthescenes #filmmaking #filmmakerslife #cinematography #vertigo #hitchcock #sanfrancisco #stairs

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## Tags

spiralstaircase, hotelvertigo, filmmaking, insta360, hitchcock, cinematography, sanfrancisco, insta360oner, insta360onex, hypersmooth, behindthescenes, vertigo, gopro, filmmakerslife, stairs

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