Anyone making VIDEOS of your trips? (INCLUDE LINKS)

Here's our latest from last weekend.

Hutchinson Homestead - Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina

There's plenty of other videos that you can find under our account there. We are leaving for Florida in a few weeks and will be adding a lot more videos.

I bought a couple of video cameras and took some video on the bike and while we were traveling for a couple years, but tired of it pretty quickly. I discovered I never watched the videos and I found myself tending to focus, pun intended, on filming what I was seeing rather than enjoying the view/event at the time.

And I figure people feel the same way about my vacation videos as I feel about theirs: I'd love to see them, but I have to wash the cat. :)

I just got into drones of the toy catagory. Looking to up-grade to a Phantom soon to photo our trips.

I too grew tired of making videos with my GoPro, FJ. I continue to take lots of stills however.

Used to shoot a lot of vids when DW and I rode our motorcycles. We're big into stills and wildlife shooting.

I do want a DJI Phantom 4 Pro however. Badly.

Enjoyed your videos - the one set up like a movie trailer made me laugh - really good.

We have a Phantom 3 Standard drone....the only issue is that depending on where you are at, whether you can fly it. I guess here in the east it's more restrictive (if you follow the rules).

I've spent many years taking stills (mostly of female models). The cell phone has come a long way and can often perform nearly as well as the DSLR. I will take stills, but usually with the cell phone. My DSLR shoots video as well, but I really haven't used it for that, due it's weight. We have a couple GoPro's, Feiyu tech gimbals, DJI Osmomobile, etc....I like the idea of the cell phone for shooting video. The Osmomobile is not really that good with the iPhone 7 plus. It does ok in vlog (selfie) mode, but issues the other way around. The GoPro's are good to use. They are small and easy to use. But you have to keep batteries charged. Take them out of the gimbal, replace battery, etc...sometimes a pain in the butt.

But overall, I like video better than stills. There's more work in producing a video than a picture. We are still learning and hopefully getting better. At least it keeps us interested. Plus the wife isn't too keen anymore of me photographing half naked women that are half our age...lol

wbwood wrote:
Here's our latest from last weekend.

Hutchinson Homestead - Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina

There's plenty of other videos that you can find under our account there. We are leaving for Florida in a few weeks and will be adding a lot more videos.

Nice work Brian. I'll go through the rest of your videos as I can. Thanks for sharing!

I've been through a process of thinking about "who" I was making the videos for.

I thought I was making them to share experiences with others. But, as mentioned, even if it is more interesting than an old school slide show, people just aren't interested. When I first started, I spent a hundred or more hours editing down a 7 hour version of our summer. We have a few family members and one set of close friends that actually watched them all. But that was it. Even had some family flat out say, "no way". LOL

I realize now that my audience is myself and hopefully my kids will find them to be a treasure after I'm gone. And you know what...that's a good enough reason for me!

You do have to view the process as fun, otherwise it is way too much work. For now, I do.

I am planning to go through all of ours and edit them into youtube friendly segments. I think we have something worth watching, if I keep them to 5-7 minute episodes.

I also am trying hard to put myself in more and narrate so that there is a storyline, not just scenery. I'm uncomfortable in front of the camera though...and feel like an idiot talking to a camera in front of people. Hoping I get over that.

We haven't had cable tv in a couple years. Got tired of the rising prices and the fact that the tv told me when I needed to watch things. My wife and daughter like Netflix and Amazon Prime. I like YouTube. Besides making my own YouTube videos, I subscribe to a bunch of people and I watch their videos. Everyday that I log on, there are a bunch of new videos to watch. Do I like all of the videos? No. And I don't expect people to like ours either. It's a hobby and it's fun. Some like to turn a wrench for fun or build stuff. This is what I like.