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    New Zealand Short Videos

    On recent trips, I've taken to sharing our journey with family and friends back home through short video snippets, usually 1 to 3 minutes long, of the things we've done. It takes quite a bit of time for me to put together a short video, so I don't know that this would work well to people...
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    A New Photography Revolution

    Are you sure that's where you want to draw the line? A lot of cameras, especially cell phone cameras, are adding more an more artificial intelligence features. I think the line between what a camera does and what a computer does is getting blurrier and blurrier.
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    Radiant Nature

    Over the holidays, my wife and I took the family to something called Radiant Nature down in Houston. It's hard to describe. It's sort of a light show, but more with lit up stuff rather than traditional Christmas lights. They have it annually at the Houston Botanic Gardens. I recorded with my...
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    Going mirrorless

    I bought a Canon R5 a while back. I think mirrorless is definitely a better option than a DSLR. But I agree with Walt34 that full frame and bulky go together. I often leave my camera get at home for trips because I don't want to carry it with me. In fact, I'm going to New Zealand for a month and...
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    France Videos

    We decided to visit Paris and the Christmas Markets in the Alsace region of France. I didn't bring a traditional camera. I got a new DJI Osmo Pocket 3 and shot video instead. My wife mostly shot pics with her phone. For the videos, we did roughly 6 minute "1 day" videos with the two of us...
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    Garage Studio Shoot

    It's that time of year again. With a few recent exceptions, we've been setting up our garage as a photo studio every fall on the weekends around Halloween to take family pictures, Halloween pictures, and Christmas card pictures. I thought I'd summarize the process for anyone interested. We...
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    My Trip to the World

    I don't understand what you mean by this. Let's say your ISO is set to 400. You're in aperture priority mode. You set your aperture to f/8. The camera sets your shutter speed to 1/15s, which you feel is too low. You switch to manual mode. Now what happens? If you adjust your shutter speed by two...
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    Hot Air Ballooning Near Lake Bled.

    For fun, we also made a faked drone flight video at Castello Miramare in Trieste, Italy. You can see it below. We started the shot with a cellphone video of my wife holding a microdrone (that had no camera and we didn't even have the controller with us because it is illegal to fly them there)...
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    Hot Air Ballooning Near Lake Bled.

    OK, here's how I shot the video. If it wasn't already obvious, it will be if you re-watch it after the explanation. I mounted a camera on the end of a selfie-stick. Not just any camera, though. I used a 360 camera. In my case, it was an Insta360 X3. And not just any selfie-stick. I used an...
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    Hot Air Ballooning Near Lake Bled.

    This is a video we made on a hot air balloon ride near Lake Bled a few days ago. Watch it and try to figure out how it was filmed. I'll come back and explain later. The flight was a lot of fun. That part of Slovenia is incredibly beautiful. The lake is overlooked by a castle on a cliff. It also...
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    What I'm Focussed On - Land and City Scapes

    And yes, that's me in the blue jacket and the gray hat. And yes, I took that picture. It's actually a still image from a video.
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    Photos from Vienna

    That tower at the back of the park was an old anti-aircraft tower from WW2 Fancy modern art exhibit.Why do most modern artists seem so angry all the time? Pretty day, so the Viennese were out at the park. This pair of pictures is an example of how far cellphone camera zooms have come...




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