Image 1 — Pruning Buttonbush to look like small trees.
Image 2 — Pruning Buttonbush to look like small trees.
Image 3 — Pruning Buttonbush to look like small trees.
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Pruning Buttonbush to look like small trees.

I have several Buttonbushes (Cephalanthus occidentalis) planted in the yard, and decided a few years ago to keep these 2 trimmed to look like small trees. I really like the look and they serve as a nice entrance way to the back yard. All of ones in our yard are planted in clay soil - not in a wet area like you often read about. The bees have been all over the blooms this year so far, but the butterflies are late to the game. The first photo is from today and the butterfly photos are from previous years.

u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 4 hours ago
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GoPro Misson 1 Pro Nightlapse - first attempt

I tried a nightlapse with the M1 Pro for the first time last night and this is what I got. We live in a Bortle Class 5 area, so not ideal for night photography. I set the camera up on my roof in hopes of catching some of the neighborhood fireworks and had the camera hooked up to a power bank. Shot in 8K30 4:3, rendered in 4K 16:9. Other settings - video - no photos, interval 20 seconds, auto shutter, auto white balance, sharpness low, denoise medium, wide lens, 10 bit, bit rate Max, ISO 25-1600, EV 0.0. I did a little tweaking in DaVinci.

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u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 10 hours ago

Nature's Fireworks in my Garden

I was out in my yard in western North Carolina this morning seeing what bugs I could capture before the heat sets in for the day. There were lots of bees, but no butterflies. These plants reminded me of fireworks (kind of) on this 4th of July - Scarlet Bee Balm, Button Bush, and Cedarglade St John's Wort (Hypericum frondosum).

u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 1 day ago
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Beneath the Surface - GoPro Mission 1 Pro

I took my M1 Pro up to one of western North Carolina's clear mountain streams a couple of days ago to see what underwater footage I could get around some of the cascades. This is a couple of minutes of what I got. Shot in 4K120 for the most part with a little 4K240 - GP-Log2.

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u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 3 days ago
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Mission 1 Pro behind a waterfall - 4K30, 120, and 240fps

I headed to a local waterfall last week to play around with some settings on the camera. It's one of the waterfalls featured in the movie Last of the Mohicans. This is a short clip of what I got around the upper section of the falls. I could have definitely used an ND filter for the 30fps to bring the shutter speed down, but I like the way the 120 and 240 turned out. In some cases I preferred the 120 to the 240. The YouTube compression didn't do the 30fps any favors. The original clips have a lot of detail. The audio is from the M1 Pro, but it's all from the 30fps clips. I still have a lot to learn working with log footage.

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u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 22 days ago
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Using the Mission 1 Pro to capture backyard birds - zooming in software

I've had my M1 Pro for a little over a week now and will mainly be using it while hiking and traveling. I'm also experimenting with using it to capture backyard birds. This was shot in 8K 60 linear and I used the free version of Davinci Resolve to zoom. In the first part of the video, I zoomed slowly from 1X to 3X and thought the detail held up fairly well for my purposes. Other camera settings are in the video description.

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u/No-Butterscotch1604 — 26 days ago