Winter Nature Scenes
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I went out hiking in Nikko National Park to see my favourite waterfalls in the snow, complete with icicles. They were so incredible, I decided that photos might not be enough, so took these video, too. Whilst we may generally use our cameras for photos, they increasingly are becoming hybrid machines with some incredible video capabilities. It can be a good experience to learn about how to use these and the best way to learn is to watch YouTube videos about how to do it and... do it yourself! I am a bit late to the video party, but all it takes is a good, modern camera, (hopefully with 4k abilities, which I think are much more exciting than 1080p ever was, as each frame is pretty much an 8.3mp photo itself), and you have a video camera that would have been a dream come true just a decade ago. The footage was taken in on my Nikon Z fc DX Camera, with the Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm VR, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm VR lenses, of the waterfalls in Nikko, taken in 4K 30fps. Sorry it’s pretty shaky at times, I didn’t have a tripod with me, so all the panning and zooming is hand-held, with just the lens VR. I tried to smooth it over with Adobe Premiere’s Warp Stabilizer, which is their rather bizarre name for their digital stabilization filter and it did help somewhat, but it couldn’t do miracles! Yes, I did wish for IBIS here, but probably a good tripod would be even better. I used an adapted AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G lens for the slow-motion footage of a flock of birds, taken in 1080p, at 120 fps. I found them very graceful and the slow motion helps us to appreciate this. The music used is “Minimal Inspiring ambient”, by Comastudio and, “Good Vibes”, by Alexiaction, both found on the Pixabay royalty-free image & music website. Thank you so much to them for their inspiring melodies!
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