Suilven, Scottish Highlands

[Dale Rodgers]

A funky shaped mountain in the far north west of the Scottish Highlands.

Filmed with M2P and Osmo Pocket

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[Jim D]

Sweet!

 

[Dale Rodgers]

Sweet!

Thankyou!

 

[Tedbert]

Beautiful scenery, wonderfully shot.

 

[Dale Rodgers]

Beautiful scenery, wonderfully shot.

Thank you!

 

[IShouldBeWorking]

Really beautiful! Gorgeous scenery and very nice footage. Care to share any settings you remember or filters you used? I love learning from others who get such great results.

 

[JRL67]

Awesome! Love the time-lapses. How did you do it? Litchi? Great editing too!

 

[Dale Rodgers]

Really beautiful! Gorgeous scenery and very nice footage. Care to share any settings you remember or filters you used? I love learning from others who get such great results.

Kind words, thanks.

Filmed in DlogM, can really pull the clouds and things out in post.

ND8 for the cloudy stuff, ND32 for sunny. Tried to keep shutter between 1/50 and 1/100 but never close aperture tighter than f5.6 as starts to soften image. Always try to stay at ISO100.

Manual focus but just press the 'infinity' symbol. Try to use HQ mode rather than Full FOV mode.

I've got no filters for Osmo Pocket (yet) but timelapses came out ok (wasn't bothered about blurring fast moving objects). Don't use the rendered 1080 timelapses from the Osmo Pocket - create my own 4k ones based on the stills it gathers.

Davinci Resolve Studio to edit. Correct barrel distortion in post. No LUTs for colourin, just level, contrast and saturation adjust. Render down to 1080 from 4k footage. Allows a bit of zoom and some of the vertical pans in the video are cheaty vertical image shifts with keyframing, not me flying!

 

[Dale Rodgers]

Awesome! Love the time-lapses. How did you do it? Litchi? Great editing too!

The first and last timelapses are from the Osmo Pocket on a tiny tripod. Each one took 2 hours. Kept the Osmo powered via the DJI USB power bank adapter to a M2P battery. We camped nearby. Got up at 5am for one, set the Osmo up and when back to bed.

In the middle there's a drone lapse at about 1'15. This is just the stock Hyperlapse mode of the M2P and DJI Go 4. However, I get the drone to save the stills during Hyperlapse rather than use the 1080p version it renders. I make my own clips to 4k in Resolve.

No Litchi.

 

[IShouldBeWorking]

Kind words, thanks.

Filmed in DlogM, can really pull the clouds and things out in post.

ND8 for the cloudy stuff, ND32 for sunny. Tried to keep shutter between 1/50 and 1/100 but never close aperture tighter than f5.6 as starts to soften image. Always try to stay at ISO100.

Manual focus but just press the 'infinity' symbol. Try to use HQ move rather than Full FOV mode.

I've got no filters for Osmo Pocket (yet) but timelapses came out ok (wasn't bothered about blurring fast moving objects). Don't use the rendered 1080 timelapses from the Osmo Pocket - create my own 4k ones based on the stills it gathers.

Davinci Resolve Studio to edit. Correct barrel distortion in post. Render down to 1080 from 4k footage. Allows a bit of zoom and some of the vertical pans in the video are cheaty vertical image shifts with keyframing, not me flying!

Thank you! I've been trying to improve my results with similar camera settings my last few times out. I love the detail you got in those cloudy skies. I only have the free version of DaVinci Resolve, so I haven't been able to make use of the barrel distortion correction. Might be time to invest in the full Studio version.

 

[Dale Rodgers]

Thank you! I've been trying to improve my results with similar camera settings my last few times out. I love the detail you got in those cloudy skies. I only have the free version of DaVinci Resolve, so I haven't been able to make use of the barrel distortion correction. Might be time to invest in the full Studio version.

If you can afford Studio version then go for it. Apart from all the extra effects and lens correction etc, it uses more hardware acceleration for h265 decode (think they cripple the free version). I had to make sure I had the latest NVIDIA drivers for my video card (don't rely on Windows update, get it from NVIDIA website). Then really rattles along!

The clouds are done by having a gradiented power window track the sky. I then max the pivot point for contrast and then alter contrast value to taste. Voila. Can try all this in free version.

Watch your histogram so you don't clip the whites in the clouds. The 10 bit dynamic range really helps then.

 

[IShouldBeWorking]

If you can afford Studio version then go for it. Apart from all the extra effects and lens correction etc, it uses more hardware acceleration for h265 decode (think they cripple the free version). I had to make sure I had the latest NVIDIA drivers for my video card (don't rely on Windows update, get it from NVIDIA website). Then really rattles along!

The clouds are done by having a gradiented power window track the sky. I then max the pivot point for contrast and then alter contrast value to taste. Voila. Can try all this in free version.

Watch your histogram so you don't clip the whites in the clouds. The 10 bit dynamic range really helps then.

Yeah. I'm always blowing out my skies. I'll give those tips a shot. I really appreciate it. I think I'll start saving up for the upgrade to DaVinci Resolve as well. Thanks again!