Hello Everyone,

Ive been into photography for the past year. I live in New Jersey, but do most of my shooting in Manhattan. I mostly do ariel photography from skyscrappers (none of my ariel photography is done with a drone. They do not match to the quality of a full frame dslr.) The perspective of a birds eye view has taken over my life, and it has been the only type of photography I have been doing (other then the occasional portrait shoot). This type of photography had made me greatly interested in taking it to the next step with video. I do take videos when I am on top of buildings, but I was craving something more cinematic. So I bought a P3S to start learning.

Here is some of my city work:

https://www.instagram.com/lightsensitivity/

Here is a quick edit I made my second time out with the p3. I know I need to work on my panning and editing skills, but I am still learning.



You can view my other edits on my channel. I am going to start doing city edits. I love NJ, and it is great for drone footage, but the city has my heart. Subscribe for more to come. Im going to try to do an edit every week.

I made a seperate Instagram where I'll be posting little edits as well:

https://www.instagram.com/lightsensitivityair/

I have been doing video for 20 years and photography at the same time, as you atre doing. 5 years ago I decided that there is only one of the two that you can do well, not both at the same time. Because video takes loads of time in post-processing, really days for a short 3 minute movie, in which time you can perfectly edit and process a hundred high quality  stills, I chose photography and abandoned video.
Now, with the Phantom i'm really tempted to do some video again because there are so many things I can do now that I never could before.
I like your video. Still it makes me think of one of the basic rules of video: make your subject move, and hold the camera still. That is a rule that is not absolutely true with a flying camera; of course, because the flyiong always gives you a minimum of movement of the camera. Still I try to prevent as much as possible extra movement, especially sudden short movements.

PhanFran Posted at 2016-6-16 09:10
I have been doing video for 20 years and photography at the same time, as you atre doing. 5 years ag ...

'Still it makes me think of one of the basic rules of video: make your subject move, and hold the camera still. '

Absolutely true. And a rule that is often forgotten. It is better to hold a still shot and let your subject move into the frame. In particular with these cameras, where you have a limited range of adjustments and slow crank rates, to minimise pans and tilts as much as possible, or at the very least, slow them right down.

Welcome to our forum ,lightsensitivit. Keep going