Recent content by RobinM

Enjoy this little video of a Baby Humpback playing with some Seaweed. On the east coast of Australia we have the full southern migration of Humpback happening now until mid November. Approximately 40-50k whales are passing by on their way back to the homelands of Antarctica. The babies were...

Yes I think so, and to do this I'll probably have to ditch Imovie ( sob) and move to a much more capable and current program.

Wonderful, thanks for the direction and info - thanks Seth.

Please dont Mansplain me, I'm quite aware of the differences - my dayjob is that of a Sony Advocate for stills.The difference is in my academic expectations of the end result and really, all i came here for was some education about to make my whale videography better. I see a lot of whale images...

I hear you. I'm not sure if you shoot stills with a high end camera? It's not good technique to have your histogram jammed either to the left or the right cos there's no data there. Maybe I'll just have to knock back my expectation a bit that the dynamic range of the MP3 could match that of...

No LUTS. I know what they are but dont have them in any program - Imovie doesnt ( that i know of) . The best result I got was in IMovie was to lower the exposure in post and then pull up the shadows.

I always shoot manual on my stills camera - that's my preference. One the drone i'd prefer to shoot manual but feeling my way still with what is going to work for me. Normally the only auto setting i'd use is auto iso because of the subjects i shoot.

Yes indeed, enjoying the moment you are capturing should always be the first priority i agree. Thanks for AE tip - i'll pay more attention to that next flight.

The Whales dont let me choose when to shoot., so i just try to work with the conditions i get. Auto exposure cant shift itself fast enough when a whale breaches i've noticed, hence my blow outs. thanks for your input.

Great info thank you. So much frolicking - they went nowhere in 3 hours! I think it's the Yaw and Pitch controls that i really need to embed into my brain. What represents smoothness on the XY graph- the smooth line on the diagonal? I'll go and do a deep dive on Youtube. Good to know about the...

Thank you . Lots of good info for me to consider there. Generally i expose to the right in my stills camera with wildlife, but already i've noticed that d-log on the drone gives me more dynamic range to work with. Whale footage is difficult to capture whilst obeying local distance laws. I get...

I have a couple of video questions i'm hoping people can help me with in order to improve my very ordinary whale videography. I upgraded from an Air2s to a MP3 in order to get better quality. Currently i'm struggling with Blown highlights in video footage. I'm in D-Log and MP4 and use manual...

you're welcome - the journey is fun!

Nice job at putting it together. Can i suggest looking at using some transitions between your clips - the jump between clips is jarring and interferes with your lovely music and scenery. I use anywhere between a .5 second transtion to a 2 second transition or even longer at the end of a piece. I...

thank you!