Leaping Lipizzans!

[dancinghorse]

In honor of the weekly Winter Storm Warning, and for those who don't do facebook, have some Leaping Lipizzans. Video! At last!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200870139736154&l=5801671206604812341

Why, yes, I did finally break down and get a smartphone. My old averagephone was starting to object to having its battery charged, and the tiny screen and increasing difficulty and slowness of getting to the data part of the deal were making it frustrating to use. And having sprung for a new one that is by no means cutting-edge, it's trailing by quite a bit (but still has Ice Cream Sammitch, so hey), I find that I am a monster, a very monster, with that camera.

If we get more snow tomorrow, I may be out there again. We'll see.

Comments

[ingulf.livejournal.com]

Cool!

You might want to try feeding it through youtube's 'video stabilisation' thing (see http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/video-stabilization-on-youtube.html ). I don't know if facebook has an equivalent.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I can do that. Any specific reason why?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

(maybe not worth it with this one but I want/need to do another Kickstarter soon, and that would be a useful thing to know and do for the obligatory introductory video)

[ingulf.livejournal.com]

Phone cameras usually don't do stabilisation. Your video wasn't *that* jittery, but it was a bit, and I was really impressed with how youtube fixes it. Here is a before and after video of it on a take of some tiger cubs I took with a really cheap camera:

Before:
http://youtu.be/g5P9WwHdOSI
After:
http://youtu.be/wXfbRUk_1Bg

One pitfall is that where you have motion blur due to movement of the *camera* (as opposed to the subject) it becomes incongruous in the stabilised version. You can see that in the tiger vid.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I ended up uploading today's video to youtube and playing with the editing functions. Very useful.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Rachel and I just watched it together. (We are up in the mountains not far from Yosemite, and it is snowing for us, too. But alas no horses.)

I have never seen horses bounce like cats! That was amazing!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

That's what they do. All the time. :)

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

If we'd known that a smartphone would lead to more photos, we'd have gotten you one years ago ;-)

Thanks for sharing! (And in an ironic moment, you've got more snow than we do.)