In another thread, someone just wrote, “
I wish I had photos! It's hard when your hands are full with a perch, target and food! Acccck! Still, progress is progress and worth celebrating!”
I was thinking about that just yesterday in a totally different context: how to show some detail of a part from my car that needs restoration. I've seen YouTube videos where people try and do a presentation one handed, holding the camera with the other.
For some things, standing the camera and leaving video running will work find. For a training session, you will be working in certain area and can choose a single camera angle if you don't have someone to shoot it for you.
For the car part, I was thinking about a head-mounted POV camera. Look in here…look behind that…take this apart, etc. It leaves both hands free and shows what I needed to do. But, I don't think a head-mount would be great for working with the bird unless you always did it from the beginning.
Although I'm planning a vacation in a few months, I sprung for a new camera now as a proud parrent and wanted to capture those precious moments.
An example from my first attempt was posted earlier. The action-cam features an ultra wide angle lens, so it captures the entire area and you just point it in the general direction. With some success, I left it running at high resolution and then composed the shot after the fact, cropping out a normal or zoom angle out of the available wide coverage. Starting with higher than HD resolution, the result is still acceptable.
So, not wanting to spring more money for an action-cam and software to go with it, and take up video editing as another hobby? The smartphone as an ever-present video camera doesn't have any kind of tripod mount. So, use rubber bands or something to "perch" it near by. Leave it recording when you are training or playing, just in case something interesting happens.
If you have both a front-facing and a rear-facing camera on the phone (or tablet), find out which one is better. It might be HD in one direction but not the other.
I wish I had photos! It's hard when your hands are full with a perch, target and food! Acccck! Still, progress is progress and worth celebrating!”
I was thinking about that just yesterday in a totally different context: how to show some detail of a part from my car that needs restoration. I've seen YouTube videos where people try and do a presentation one handed, holding the camera with the other.
For some things, standing the camera and leaving video running will work find. For a training session, you will be working in certain area and can choose a single camera angle if you don't have someone to shoot it for you.
For the car part, I was thinking about a head-mounted POV camera. Look in here…look behind that…take this apart, etc. It leaves both hands free and shows what I needed to do. But, I don't think a head-mount would be great for working with the bird unless you always did it from the beginning.
Although I'm planning a vacation in a few months, I sprung for a new camera now as a proud parrent and wanted to capture those precious moments.
An example from my first attempt was posted earlier. The action-cam features an ultra wide angle lens, so it captures the entire area and you just point it in the general direction. With some success, I left it running at high resolution and then composed the shot after the fact, cropping out a normal or zoom angle out of the available wide coverage. Starting with higher than HD resolution, the result is still acceptable.
So, not wanting to spring more money for an action-cam and software to go with it, and take up video editing as another hobby? The smartphone as an ever-present video camera doesn't have any kind of tripod mount. So, use rubber bands or something to "perch" it near by. Leave it recording when you are training or playing, just in case something interesting happens.
If you have both a front-facing and a rear-facing camera on the phone (or tablet), find out which one is better. It might be HD in one direction but not the other.
