As quick video I took this morning
I put it in the good morning thread too! So twice the value 
Just as a matter of interest has anyone on here made one of those “shorts”?
I am not a fan of the vertical format (the Luddite in me) but they seem to be on the increase, I thought they had to be short but I have seen some several minutes long. My kids are always knocking them out on FB and Instagram.
According to a notice I received from Youtube (along with everybody else) they prefer normal videos to be at least 13 minutes long apparently because it helps “engagement”. For good video makers that may be fine but I think a video I made which was more than a minute or two long would bore the pants off any viewer. I personally prefer shorter videos anyway.
I also understand that their algorithm prefers and promotes videos with a “talking head” ie someone talking to camera, again I can’t see me doing that either. My 15 subscribers have not demanded my presence on film.
Don’t worry I have no illusions that my videos are blockbusters or even very interesting, I just enjoy making them occasionally. (Yep, it’s all about ME not my “audience”)
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na na nanana I have 350 subscibers Bruce. no idea why
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If it were not for me you’d only have 349!
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Hi Bruce. I will never appear on my videos either. I share what I see, that is the soul purpose of uploading videos.
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That’s my kind of video! Only 20 second, a number of 2-5 second clips stuck together, tells the story nicely.
I agree, I think 3 to 4 seconds is about right for the video equivalent of a photo. I used to have an SD Canon video camera which had a feature that took a 4 second shot each time, I found it a great discipline and had it turned on most of the time, unfortunately I couldn’t find a HD camera with the feature - they must have tried and then abandoned it.
These days I still try to keep individual shots to about 4 seconds in the editor and despite YouTube’s edict generally speaking a two to three minute long video is about as long as I can stand except for really good/professional video content makers (they have a 100000+ subscribers and I have 15 for a reason)
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trick video. Seeing is not always believing
That bench needs some inseed oil.
Yet another blockbuster video 
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Corellas are one of the most playful/fun birds in nature.
Always putting on a display. Whether alone, with a mate or in a flock, one can be assured of a pleasurable experience observing them.
A pair of Little Corellas playing on the grass
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Skill of Sea Container Lift Operators
This is Fremantle Port container yard.
All day long 40’ and 20’ sea containers are loaded and unloaded.
This video is of empty sea containers being off-loaded and stored, 7 high.
Watching this operation it is obvious the experience these operators have.
Millimeter accuracy is a prerequisite for this position.
sharpening a metal bit using a drill Dr machine. also able to set to cut at different angles via a lever on the machine
this video was banned on on a USA photogaphic site, with a video section, because they now tell me videos are limited to wildlife and nature. Nothing mentioned about this before. Makes me wonder about their way of thinking. Seems very limited to me.
Not a bad machine, I just use my grinder.
Traffic on Kwinana Freeway at 6am
6 days a week, the world over, thousands of people get up early to drive to work way before sunrise.
Some drive for well over an hour, some of those vehicles down there have come from Mandurah, over 70km away.
Every day!
My morning commute used to by 16km, 20 - 20 minutes at the most.
Starting work at 5am, not the best. Which is why I decided to give it away. I no longer work. Early retirement.
Actually filmed February welcome to the premiere of my latest epic…
Ok this may not look much until I tell you this roof top was nearly 1/4 mile way.
Having got just this afternoon the new 100-400mm len (200-800 FF) and on a tripod unedited. Being able to shoot at this distance without any editing blows me away
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Hi
You have a great talent for all things photographic.
I wish I had Swimmy when I see how much better on another photographic members are.
Just had a Major disaster .An SD memory card fell apart in the camera slot so now the camera has to go in for retrieval and examination to get the bits out. On the card there are metal contact strips and these broke away from the card and still in the camera card slot
TO be honest these cards are years old and still I thought ok, but so it seem they are not.
only answer is to throw out the old and get new which is what I have done. My little local camera repair shop is going to have a visitor.
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