2 Pro Miami Sunrise-A New Day, A New Year. January 11,2021

[garykentner]

Love your work, Dale! I fast forward/skip through most videos on this site, but not yours - your content and editing keep me watching from start to finish. Looking forward to your next production!

 

[SW_Drone_Guy]

Another fine project from Dale. Thank you!

 

[rhberg]

Beautiful, as I have come to expect from you.

 

[Lets Fly]

The film is 2:08 minutes, but first read this.

There is a city park near my house where I often go to seek calm and peace. It overlooks the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve, which leads to the Atlantic Ocean. It faces east and is a perfect place to film sunrises.The shoreline is dotted with mangrove trees with many roots, and shore birds. Some of the sunrises are dull, but this morning's sunrise was truly a work of art by nature! The sky burst forth with a dramatic display of gorgeous reds, oranges, and blues. Sun rays came and faded.

Black plumes of smoke suddenly appeared during the video which I later learned from our local newspaper was a fire destroying one of the last remaining Stiltsville homes in Biscayne Bay dating back to the 1930's. See last paragraph.

This was filmed using the following gear;
Timelapse sequences done with Nikon D750 body, Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 lens set at f/8. No filter
Timelapse interval was 5 seconds, shutter varied by light.
Really Right Stuff Tripod
Drone footage- DJI Mavic 2 Pro, on Hyperlapse mode, saved to RAW files and processed with LRTimelapse 5 software, courtesy of the brilliant Gunther Wegner.
Other footage and still images using the DJI Osmo Action camera on a Manfrotto mini-tripod, the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Image processing- Adobe Photoshop CC2021.
Video processing- Adobe Premiere Pro CC2021,
@4 K, H.265 using iMAC and proxies.

Little did I realize that the plumes of black smoke shown in my video were NOT those of a ship, but of a fire in one of the few remaining homes in Stiltsville that I inadvertently photographed. When I saw the Miami Herald Tuesday morning, I found the article by David Goodhue, “Biscayne National Park, Fire destroys one of the remaining homes in Stiltsville.” Stiltsville was a community of elevated houses built in the middle of Biscayne Bay that dates to the 1930’s. In the 1960’s Stiltstville had 27 structures, but was ravaged by Hurricane Betsy in 1965, and by 1992, only 14 structure remained. In that year, the number was reduced to 7 thanks to Hurricane Andrew. These homes survived Hurricane Irma in 2017. The remaining homes were deeded by the State of Florida to Biscayne National Park and cannot be rebuilt. The cause of the blaze was unknown at the time of the Monday article.

Addendum: A friend was out on Biscayne Bay today and took this picture, which I edited. It is the burned out remnant of the house!View attachment 121773

Nice job Dale, last night was a work of art also.

 

[wsteele]

Dale,
I've read your comments and questions as you've grown as a drone photographer and learned along with you. Your video is great but do have two suggestions which are my opinions for making great videos.

First, on the still shots, add a "Ken Burns" effect. Just a little movement makes a more natural transition from the video shots to the stills.

Second, Use dissolve transitions between all segments. It just smoothes out the video.

Again, it was a pleasure watching your video.

 

[realvue]

Beautiful

 

[Dale D]

Dale,
I've read your comments and questions as you've grown as a drone photographer and learned along with you. Your video is great but do have two suggestions which are my opinions for making great videos.

First, on the still shots, add a "Ken Burns" effect. Just a little movement makes a more natural transition from the video shots to the stills.

Second, Use dissolve transitions between all segments. It just smoothes out the video.

Again, it was a pleasure watching your video.

If you keep watching my stuff, you'll see that I have taken your Ken Burns suggestion and put it to good use. I also try to use the crossfade transition between my clips because I think it is the least intrusive. When people notice your transitions more than your photography is it not a good sign as far as I am concerned.

I am always either thinking about or working on a new project. I have exhausted many of the subject rich ares of my town, so I have been re-visiting some of them. We are having a spectacular winter (day temperatures 60-70=15.55 Celsius to 21.11 Celcius) and early morning temperatures around 50 F =10 Celsius). So I have started a new sunrise/sunset project. Still need more footage so I keep getting up early and going back out to the ocean-see park for more droning! Coming to a computer near you!

My latest- read the introduction first to appreciate the film
Here was my last video. Read the introduction first

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