Wave Meets Rock

AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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A shot of a wave crashing into the basalt cliffs near Otter Crest and Cape Foulweather along the Oregon coast. The seas were a bit on the riled up side from a storm that had passed the day before but not hard core storm swells. Shot using a drone with a166mm lens. I used burst more to grab a handful of shots so I could cherry pick one that best showed the crashing wave.

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C&C always welcome.
 
JimFox

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Hey Alan, now I love wave crashes like that! They look to be pretty big?

How fast is your burst mode? When I am imaging at the beach and shooting wave crashes with my regular camera, I do the same thing. Shoot a burst of photos as the wave crashes so I can pick out the best later. I don't think the Mini 2 has a burst mode. But I am looking to upgrade to the Mini 4 for Christmas, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't have a burst mode, as it seems like DJI has been filling the Mini 4 with lot's of Pro type features.
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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JimFox said:
Hey Alan, now I love wave crashes like that! They look to be pretty big?

How fast is your burst mode? When I am imaging at the beach and shooting wave crashes with my regular camera, I do the same thing. Shoot a burst of photos as the wave crashes so I can pick out the best later. I don't think the Mini 2 has a burst mode. But I am looking to upgrade to the Mini 4 for Christmas, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't have a burst mode, as it seems like DJI has been filling the Mini 4 with lot's of Pro type features.
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Thanks Jim - The swells were notable but not over the top winter storm sized monsters like the 20-30 footers I saw at Shore Acres a couple of years ago.

I can shoot a burst of 5 images in about one second. I see a one second time split in the burst of 5 images that this one came out of. I can shoot up to 7 shots in a burst. You are correct about the Mini 2 and the Mini 4 Pro - no burst in the Mini 2 and 3/5/7 at 12MP and 3 frames at 48MP with the Mini 4 Pro. I am not sure about the output format (.DNG/JPEG) for the Mini 4 Pro in burst mode. I can get 3/5/7 shots bursts on all three cameras on the Mavic 3 Pro with .DNG outputs. A Mini 4 Pro would be a nice upgrade from your Mini 2.
 
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TimMc

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Burst mode on the Mini 3 Pro allows 3/5/7 shots at 12mp and it records both jpeg and .dng I have not found a way to record only one, but, on a Mac I can group by application(ie file type) and only upload the file type I want.
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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TimMc said:
Burst mode on the Mini 3 Pro allows 3/5/7 shots at 12mp and it records both jpeg and .dng I have not found a way to record only one, but, on a Mac I can group by application(ie file type) and only upload the file type I want.
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I got stuck with both .jpg and .dng with my old Air 2 as well. I didn't realize that Lightroom actually imported both since it was only showing me the .dng files in the folder but when I looked at the import directory it had both the .dng and the .jpg. I didn't figure this out until Lightroom refused to download a new set of images because my hard drive was full. I was using the Air 2 in 48MP mode and with the RC-N1 controller it had stashed one copy on my iPhone as well. The iPhone was set up to back itself up onto my laptop so I had a set of 48MP .jpgs in the Photos directory on the phone that was included in the backup along with the 48MP .jpg files that got imported alongside the .dng images. Fortunately I didn't have the iPhone set up to automatically sync with the Photos collection on my MacBook or there would have been another copy of all the images yet. I was several days into a trip so there were a lot of images included in this mess and it was no wonder the internal drive filled up. I changed my M.O and automatic imports got summarily disabled along with the iPhone backups. That blew out an afternoon of my trip cleaning up the files and device preferences. Definitely a learning experience.

Happily both my Mavic 3 and the Mavic 3 Pro allow me to select just the .dng for output so I can just import directly from the card into LR without collecting .jpgs. My road Lightroom catalogue and image files are on a 1TB USB-C SSD so I don't mistakenly fill up the internal drive on my laptop. I can just plug the drive into my Mac Studio when I get back home and File>Import from another catalogue to drop the road work into my master catalog including edits I may have done on the road.
 
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TimMc

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Alan my burst mode use is almost strictly AEB. I delete the underlining files as soon as the hdr file is produced. Otherwise the file storage is absurd. I do believe the default settings by Apple and Adobe are set to maximize the sale of cloud storage.
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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I am trying to avoid getting caught up in the cloud catalog game. There are too many times when I want to access my stuff and I am not in range of cellular data. I either have it with me or I don't have it when there is no internet.
 
JimFox

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I like the jpg and dng combo because when I am on the road traveling, the jpgs get sent to my iphone when they are captured, with the jpg and also dng getting stored on the SD card on the Mini 2. What's great for that when traveling is I can then edit that jpg from the Mini 2 on my iphone and then upload it here to FocalWorld. So even if I had that option to not shoot jpg, I would keep doing it.
 
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