Late in the day I decided to test out my lapel microphone on the dirt bike to see how it works out and also to practice making videos.
To do this I planned to ride up to visit some of my neighbors that live up on the hill’s tops.
Mount problems
I took off on the dirt bike and right away I was having trouble keeping the camera mount from moving, even after I tightened the mount up more.
I hooked up the lapel microphone and used it for most of the ride. It seemed to work pretty well and I thought the motor bike motor’s sound was a little softer than when not using the lapel microphone.
I had a nice visit with my neighbors and then rode on home doing some more testing making videos.
I think I need to remove the rotating ball from my camera mount and make a straight rod for it instead and that might work better.
Thumbnails
And as long as I’m talking making video’s one of the things I need to do is improve my making of what YouTube calls thumbnails, the pic they show to attract people to one’s videos. As far as I can see these thumbnails are one of the more important things for posting videos on YouTube as they are the main thing that either attracts people to watch the video or not. I’ve been thinking of that and what to do to improve on that and what to use to make them. I’ve got some ideas and now have to work on figuring out what to do and how to do it. the thumbnail is also very important to let people know who made the video so followers can watch one’s videos if they want.
There seems to be quite a few things that need to come together to be a successful poster of videos on YouTube. I’ll be working on this stuff.
Yummies at the neighbors
Anyway at my neighbors I remembered to take a picture when they went in the house to round up the tequila. Before that we were doing taste tests on the different oranges that grow on their property. Oranges do good up in the hills around here as it doesn’t freeze much at the higher altitudes. Their place is around 1500 feet I’d guess.
They had some real tasty oranges. Yummmmmy and the tequila wasn’t bad either. :O)
I made it back home around six and let the chickens into the front yard to graze.
Broody hen
Then I checked on the hen that is sitting on eggs. She looked just fine and content in her nest.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
