In the past few years, GoPro cameras have quickly changed the landscape of action sports videos. These compact and wearable cameras have given athletes and film makers alike the ability to capture tricks and outdoor adventures with ease and unique angles like never before. Gizmodo recently released an Action Cam Pro Tips video that features Vimeo members: Abe Kislevitz, Torstein Horgmo and Zak Shelhamer explaining their personal techniques to capture the best possible shots with a GoPro.

Let's recap what they taught us:

I. Camera Placement

On The Head: Wearing the camera on your head pointing forward captures an excellent POV perspective, allowing you to show a viewer exactly what the rider is seeing when hitting jumps, riding rails and jumping off hundred foot cliffs followed by an avalanche.

On The Chest: Wearing the camera on your chest offers a similar POV perspective to wearing the camera on your head, but by filming from a lower angle, you can capture more of a rider's arms and legs offering another unique vantage.

On the Boot: Wearing the camera on your boots facing either forward or backwards can offer an amazing angle for when you are grabbing your board or skis in the air. Make sure you get that grab though. No tickling!

On a Pole: Mounting the camera to the end of a pole pointing back at you is a great way to get the camera far away enough from yourself to get most of your body in the shot. If you're feeling less vain, you can point the camera forward and get it extra close to someone else as they are performing a trick without risking getting your arm taken off.

II. Shooting Videos

High Resolution: GoPros allow you to shoot at a resolution up to 4K. Filming at such a high resolution gives you the flexibility in post production to zoom into a shot or apply an image stabilizer without sacrificing resolution on the final video.

Slow Motion: GoPros also offer the ability to shoot at varying frame rates ranging from 15 frames per second to 240 frames per second. This way, you can vary both your shot angles as well as the speed of which you are filming so that you can really slow things down.

III. Taking Photos

Mode: Setting your GoPro to automatically take a photo every half second before you drop into your run is great for two reasons. First, it'll ensure that you have tons of different photos to choose from for your video's high quality thumbnail and it'll also remove the stress out of physically taking photographs while shredding so that you can focus on performing your tricks.

Vertical: While shooting vertically isn't always the best for video, it can be a fun option for snapping photos. So try turning that camera sideways next time you're taking a selfie!

For more tips and tricks on filming winter action sports, check out our Vimeo Video School lesson from last year's Winter X Games featuring Tom Wallisch, Nick Martini and Andrew Napier–