Category: Outdoors

@Apple, DJI Mini 2, Final Cut Pro, iPad Pro, M2, Outdoors, Project, Video

Some Old Drone Footage.

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I found some old drone footage that I shot a couple of years ago using my DJI Mini 2 drone. I was out at Magnolia Bluff on a moderately windy summer day not really paying attention to anything or I would have shot more footage of the hawks that were flying around.

I stitched them together using the cross dissolve transition between the videos.

Each video has the vibrance effect added to it to pump up the color.

I’m really loving the FCP on the iPad. Being able to use the Apple Pencil makes editing so easy.

The jog wheel is another feature that makes editing easy. Moving through video one frame at a time is amazing.

Thanks for watching.

@Apple, Final Cut Pro, Google, iPad Pro, M2, Made By Google, Outdoors, Pixel, Pixel 8 Pro, Project, shiftlens, Video

A short video featuring geese in flight.

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Some video of geese in flight shot on my Pixel 8 Pro. The cameras continue to amaze me. Being able to point and shoot with this quality is a treat.

I used a ShiftCam Pro Grip to help steady the phone. It’s a nice bit of gear that I picked up this year. If you are not familiar with this phone grip I would suggest checking them out https://shiftcam.com

The Pro Grip is great for controlling my phone with one hand. It has a hand strap that is well padded. The Pro Grip lets me focus on my subject instead of worrying about dropping my phone. It reminds me of the grip I had for my Sunshine Yellow Lumia 1020.

While the ShiftCam seems to be geared more towards the iPhone it does work with Android devices.

All of the videos were edited in Final Cut Pro for iPad. I used standard titles and the Cross Dissolve transition between each video.The music in the background is from FCP while all of the honker noises were captured with the 8 Pro.

I’m still learning how to use the app but believe that I am getting better with each video.

Thanks for watching.

@Apple, Final Cut Pro, Google, iPad Air, M1, Made By Google, Night Sight, Outdoors, Pixel, Pixel 8 Pro, Project, Video

Pixel 8 Pro Night Sight Video

kmikulaj

The purchase of the Pixel 8 Pro has brought many things to my love of #pixel, but I am a bit embarrassed to say that, even though I have had Night Sight since my Oh-So-Orange 4 XL, I have just thought of stringing together the one second videos that are produced when I take a Night Sight photo. How’s that for a run-on sentence?

While I have loved using my phone to take low light photos since my Sunshine Yellow Lumia 1020, the Night Sight feature on Pixels has opened the night sky to me. It is always amazing to see how many stars are actually in the sky at night.

The thing I had missed in the reviews and videos was that a one second video was produced when taking a long exposure Night Sight photo. For me, the photo must be 2 minutes 34 seconds or longer for the app to produce a video. The video is a time lapse of the photo. While I thought the videos were interesting, I never thought to take a series of photos and the combine the resulting videos into a string and make one time lapse video. That is until recently.

There can be something eerily beautiful with these photos

So I am going to continue to play with this and see what can be produced.oogle

@Apple, DJI Mini 3 Pro, Final Cut Pro, iPad Air, M1, Outdoors, Project, things-i-enjoy.com, Video, YouTube

Some DJI drone footage

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A colection of drone footage. The DJI Mini 3 Pro is an amazing device and the pictures and video it can produce never disappoint.

Clouds and sunlight are a beautiful, vibrant mix of visual pleasure. Being able to shoot video at a couple of hundred feet above the earth makes it even better.

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