HDV - Phil. Coucal preening

[Neon Rosell II]

Finally had the time to render the video clips I got from the Palay-palay sortie with Bob, Alain and Bert. Been busy the past 2 weeks and just found the time to squeeze some recreation :-).

Philippine Coucal (Centropus viridis)

[Edu Lorenzo Jr]

WOW!!! so that's what they look like when preening! Very educational sir! TFS!

[Toto Gamboa]

Great capture of one of life's wonders.

[Ely Teehankee]

For me the Coucals are the best Sunbathers in the world of birds that I have seen. They really spread out their wings and your video shows that it even flaps its wings to dry them faster or to test if its ready for flight. Thank you for sharing your wonderful video. Well done Neon. Mabuhay.

[JV Noriega]

Excellent HDV capture of the Coucal Neon! Nice lighting and editing! I haven't had time to edit my back-logged video footages also.. hope i can find recreation time like you soon and dust some video files out of the shelf! Thanks for sharing!

[Romy Ocon]

OMG, amazing colors and VQ, Neon!

What was the shutter speed used? Seems the motion is not so smooth.

[Neon Rosell II]

Thanks Edu, Toto, Ely, JV and Ka Mastah!

Aug 21, 2010 3:32:43 GMT Romy Ocon said:

OMH, amazing colors and VQ, Neon!

What was the shutter speed used? Seems the motion is not so smooth.

Now that you mentioned it, I shoot with whatever shutter speed I have when I shot in stills, at the start. Since I have adjusted to the right exposure I just switch to video mode carrying the setting I used during still mode. It just came to mind that there are programmable dial settings and I could program one for video..hehehe...good!! more time to play again, not now, but I'm itching to do it.

Would stretching the time frame a bit in post processing smoothen the jerky capture? I know I don't have to do much in PP if the right settings were used in the first place. ;D but that's why there is a program for PP, when shots are bungled.

[Romy Ocon]

Partner, for smooth and natural looking motion, you need to use a "180 degree shutter" - i.e. half the reciprocal of your frame rate. For 30 or 29.94 fps, you need 1/60 sec. For 60 fps, 1/125 sec is the closest. If the shutter speed is too fast (which is normally the one we use for stills), the motion will be strobed-like and not smooth. It's tough to correct it in PP.

[Neon Rosell II]

Aug 21, 2010 5:49:54 GMT Romy Ocon said:

Partner, for smooth and natural looking motion, you need to use a "180 degree shutter" - i.e. half the reciprocal of your frame rate. For 30 or 29.94 fps, you need 1/60 sec. For 60 fps, 1/125 sec is the closest. If the shutter speed is too fast (which is normally the one we use for stills), the motion will be strobed-like and not smooth. It's tough to correct it in PP.

Thanks Ka Mastah, will surely program one of the dials when I get paroled, so next time it will be just a matter of turning the dial to switch from video to stills.

[Dennis Alfaro]

i agree, exceptional