Krish
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Red Avadavat aka Red Munia aka Strawberry Finch
Nikon Z8 + Nikon 600 mm F6.3 PF + TC 1.4
Nikon Z8 + Nikon 600 mm F6.3 PF + TC 1.4
Red Avadavat preening in the wind
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Lovely footage, Krish.
Dave63401
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Beautiful bird, nice capture. Do you shoot in vertical, or do you crop it to vertical?
Krish
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Thank you Rudy !!
Thanks Dave. Normally, I prefer to shoot video with my camera on a tripod. When I am able to do that it is always almost always in vertical mode.
Sometimes like in this video, the ground did not permit the use of a tripod. I shot this handheld. If you see the complete footage it is actually quite shaky. While shooting handheld I try holding my breath for long enough to get about a minute or two of relatively steady video. I also shoot long takes, in case I get some useable footage.
While post processing I first cut out the very shaky parts, stabilize the video (In DaVinchi Resolve, the free version) and then crop to a vertical aspect ratio.
DVR stabilizes by cropping so I make sure there is enough space in the frame all around while shooting in landscape mode
When I first started, I did try shooting vertical video handheld and found it very much more difficult to hold it steady. Thus the work-around
Dave63401
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Krish,
That has also been my experience with hand held long lens video also. Very shaky! Resolve does a fine job helping that. Do you prefer vertical because your audience watches on phone, for the most part? Or just personal preference.
Dave
That has also been my experience with hand held long lens video also. Very shaky! Resolve does a fine job helping that. Do you prefer vertical because your audience watches on phone, for the most part? Or just personal preference.
Dave
Krish
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Hi Dave, I usually post on Instagram & YouTube shorts, both of which favor the vertical format. Thus the choice of format, for most part.