It was a big surprise when I opened one of my gifts from Colin on Christmas morning. The gift he had given me was the size of my flip mobile phone and was a JVC camera for taking blog movies! He and my son Paul had been aware of me checking out the results of the different blog cameras on youtube and with Paul's help - because Colin doesn't even know how to turn a computer "on" - a camera was purchased "on-line". It is actually a superceded JVC camera and very cheap, ($135.00) but what the heck! It is so much fun to use! This is my first attempt with it - imagine taking video with your left hand as your right hand is doing the chores, that is what I did!
Click on the video to view in Youtube - some of it has been cropped in this blog.
The results are far from perfect and the quality is not really all that crash hot - but it is better than the quality from Steven's standard definition hard drive camera.
The camera model is GC-FM1 and takes an SDHC card . I simply push the card into the laptop, use Windows explorer to move the video files (MOV) to my hard drive and then edit them with Premiere Elements 9. The voice over is recorded with Cool Edit Pro 2 using a Skype headset microphone.
Obviously the video would have been much better if I had been doing more than just making sure the lens was pointing in the right direction. But I wanted to share my "number one" video with my blog camera!
We have had so much rain just lately that the lorikeets have spent almost every morning pooping on our chairs! Once they have been fed we have to get the hose and wash everything down! Because they are nectar eaters the bird poo is just wet - but sometimes they have found some purple fruit and their squirts are rather showy! Mulberry season is a good time for multiple verandah hosings!
Hmm! Should I have shared that with you? !!!!!!
AJ
Showing posts with label Australia Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia Zoo. Show all posts
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
A day at Australia Zoo
Wednesday was not a working day for the people who attended the Video Convention, it was a day in which cameras could be used. Breaking from the norm (for this group of people) I opted for using my still camera in preference to the video (but I did take a couple of minutes of video for Youtube videos!) There was a choice of two outings and I chose the trip to Australia Zoo. Yes, I have been there many times before but I always enjoy seeing the changes in the place. It has grown from a reptile park with creatures in rather makeshift enclosures to a very attractive green and clean place and the animals are in such enclosures that they have plenty of room to move and yet are never too far away from the people who come to see them.
So I was there to take photos of the animals and not to see the shows. (I hate crocodiles!). Barely had we arrived when we came across a keeper explaining facts about the Galapagos Turtle (to me it looks more like a tortoise!) and straight away I was struck by the way the huge lumbering creature related to its handlers.
I know these things are quiet and not prone to bursts of speed and aggression but the young man with it was hand feeding it and tickling it under its chin and the turtle would follow him about.
More amazing is the interaction and trust between the tigers and their handlers. There was no one around when Colin and I hovered in front of the huge plate glass barricades that separated the public from the tigers. I spoke to one of the staff who happened by and learned that the handlers lived 24 hours a day with the tigers when they were cubs and later spent every hour of their working days with them. We were treated to a private presentation explaining the way the daily health examinations are conducted. Its all to do with a small carton of milk with a tiny hole punched in it to allow drips of milk to be dripped into the eager mouths of these magnificent cats. One of the handlers came into the sunlight and stood about three metres away and showed us how he checked the teeth and the claws and many other health checks.
My camera was kept busy. How lucky that I had changed the lens to the 40-150mm so I have been able to take my shots and non of them need any cropping.
My final shot is for readers of my blog who are not from Australia. This wonderful little animal is our echidna. When I lived in the UK he was known as the “spiny ant eater” but the only name we know him by is “ekidna” (that's the phonetic spelling, “echidna” is the correct spelling)
The spines are hard and quite sharp and the head and snout quite soft, so to protect itself from being eaten by some hungry fox, Mr. echidna will tuck his head down so the spines all stand up and with no further ado will dig with all four feet and gradually disappear into the ground so that all that is above the soil are a few spines – and NOTHING, except a spade, will remove him from his protective pad.
There were several echidna in an enclosure and it was here that I took some video with the Samsung. I will share it when I am back to my PC and a more reliable internet source.
AJ
So I was there to take photos of the animals and not to see the shows. (I hate crocodiles!). Barely had we arrived when we came across a keeper explaining facts about the Galapagos Turtle (to me it looks more like a tortoise!) and straight away I was struck by the way the huge lumbering creature related to its handlers.
I know these things are quiet and not prone to bursts of speed and aggression but the young man with it was hand feeding it and tickling it under its chin and the turtle would follow him about.More amazing is the interaction and trust between the tigers and their handlers. There was no one around when Colin and I hovered in front of the huge plate glass barricades that separated the public from the tigers. I spoke to one of the staff who happened by and learned that the handlers lived 24 hours a day with the tigers when they were cubs and later spent every hour of their working days with them. We were treated to a private presentation explaining the way the daily health examinations are conducted. Its all to do with a small carton of milk with a tiny hole punched in it to allow drips of milk to be dripped into the eager mouths of these magnificent cats. One of the handlers came into the sunlight and stood about three metres away and showed us how he checked the teeth and the claws and many other health checks.
My camera was kept busy. How lucky that I had changed the lens to the 40-150mm so I have been able to take my shots and non of them need any cropping.My final shot is for readers of my blog who are not from Australia. This wonderful little animal is our echidna. When I lived in the UK he was known as the “spiny ant eater” but the only name we know him by is “ekidna” (that's the phonetic spelling, “echidna” is the correct spelling)
The spines are hard and quite sharp and the head and snout quite soft, so to protect itself from being eaten by some hungry fox, Mr. echidna will tuck his head down so the spines all stand up and with no further ado will dig with all four feet and gradually disappear into the ground so that all that is above the soil are a few spines – and NOTHING, except a spade, will remove him from his protective pad.There were several echidna in an enclosure and it was here that I took some video with the Samsung. I will share it when I am back to my PC and a more reliable internet source.
AJ
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