BigBlackSea
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I've been playing around with Adobe products, e.g. Lightroom and Photoshop.
For for mobile phone edits, Snapseed is great.
Essential The Official Photography Thread
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For for mobile phone edits, Snapseed is great.
Allen Poe
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Photoshop and Lightroom if you feel like spending money (or pirating).
GIMP if you don't.
Photoshop, been using it forever.
80 degrees at the zoo, big mistake, sweating like crazy tryna get safari style tiger shots. Plus most of the animals are in the shade and not roaming around. Tried the face tracking AF, works pretty good.
FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
80 degrees at the zoo, big mistake, sweating like crazy tryna get safari style tiger shots. Plus most of the animals are in the shade and not roaming around. Tried the face tracking AF, works pretty good.
dope shots
dope shots
Thanks fam.
They got a tutorial for everything on Photoshop! Didn't even know this was even possible.
FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
you on windows? I can give you a link to a free copy
Already found a link but thanks anyway bro
FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
SD cards came so I got busy. Nothing crazy just some random pictures I took. Shot them in manual mode with some slight tweaks to the shutter speed.
Learn about framerates (important if you want slow motion and for the type of aesthetic you're going for), your camera's video settings to ensure you get the right exposure.
Video is an entirely different mindset than photography. Your eye for framing shots and compositions will transfer over from the photo side of things. If you're going to be editing video as well, then the story and how you intend on telling it is equally as important as getting the shot, if that makes sense.
Do you use a stabilizer? What's your go to lens for video?
SD cards came so I got busy. Nothing crazy just some random pictures I took. Shot them in manual mode with some slight tweaks to the shutter speed.
our boy already shooting manual
I have a gimbal that I got a couple of years ago used (MOZA Air 2). About a year with it, the batteries just went to shyt. Apparently, this particular model is known to have a battery/charging problem, so I haven't used it much in quite some time. I bought some cheaper replacement batteries for it, and they worked for a little while then stopped. Now I'm looking at potentially upgrading but it's not a pressing issue for me atm.
Stabilizers are great tools to have if you and your subject are going to be moving a lot. It also is needed if you have specific camera movements that you want to have in your footage. You can get away with going handheld if you going to have a lot of static shots and slow motion is another way to smooth footage out.
For gimbal shots, I prefer staying around 35mm or wider. I don't go beyond 35mm for the most part using them. And depending on how much weight your gimbal can handle, the lighter the lens the better. I've used my 28-75mm on it primarily for stuff. Now I have a 16-35mm that I would use on it as well.
After years of shooting video, both with a gimbal and without, if you're capturing event recap kind of footage, then sometimes the gimbal can be limiting to the variety of shots you can get. It's best to come in with a plan for what kind of hero movement type of shots you want to get with the gimbal, and then just shoot some handheld with different focal lengths and angles... especially if you're using a zoom lens. There's also been times where the venue is smaller than I anticipate and rigging my camera up on a gimbal and staying out of everyone's way is just too much so I've made decisions based on that as well.
Basically, don't only rely on a stabilizer for video. Yes, you will be able to get a look and level of smooth footage that you cannot get otherwise, but like any other tool, be mindful when to use it and when it's not necessary.
