Early attempts at wildlife videography (1 Viewer)

[sillyak]

I have been doing wildlife photography for a while, but I am trying to do more video work. Editing is quite a daunting process, and I have realized I need a good microphone as all my shots from last week are nothing but wind noise. Either way, I managed to piece together a short video. Let me know what you think please!

 

[pppppvvvv]

I liked it. It's not easy, and you have more patience to edit clips, and put together clips than I would have that's for sure.
The quality was sharp for the most part. The very beginning was a bit blurry.
If I had one criticism, is the panning was a bit abrupt and shaky, but not sure how you overcome that, if the subjects are moving fairly rapidly.
(The extent of my wildlife video clips, is a tripod, press record and step away from the camera! fine as long as the subject doesn't start walking!)

 

[sillyak]

I liked it. It's not easy, and you have more patience to edit clips, and put together clips than I would have that's for sure.
The quality was sharp for the most part. The very beginning was a bit blurry.
If I had one criticism, is the panning was a bit abrupt and shaky, but not sure how you overcome that, if the subjects are moving fairly rapidly.
(The extent of my wildlife video clips, is a tripod, press record and step away from the camera! fine as long as the subject doesn't start walking!)

Thanks! The Elk were shot on a tripod with my old Manfrotto 501 head, which isn't very smooth. I should see if I can get it a little smoother and practice some more.

I want to get a video head that is arca compatible and has good movement. I also want a microphone next time I shoot Elk in the rut. Their bugle is unreal, but all my footage is just wind noise.

The sheep and bear were shot handheld. The sheep I think I did alright with, the bear was bad. I was excited and was also switching between photo and video and all the video is unfortunately rough lol.

I got a few good stills though.

 

[KC Foggin]

you certainly got a great video of these wild creatures and I liked the music surrounding all of them