{"id":570,"date":"2011-04-20T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/04\/20\/110420-avocetvideo\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T02:25:00","slug":"110420-avocetvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/20\/110420-avocetvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocet Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/18\/110418-avocets\/\">flock of avocets<\/a> that visited our neighborhood pond last weekend? Sure you do! Anyway, I finally got around to editing the video I shot and I&#8217;ve uploaded it to YouTube. You can either view it there <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lQWLIVt34rM\">via this link<\/a>, or just click the following embed. Note that the source footage* is HD so you can embiggen it in full-screen mode if you wish.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQWLIVt34rM?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Please excuse the poor audio quality. The wind was pretty strong (I know; that hardly ever happens in West Texas) and my camcorder has a built-in windscreen, I&#8217;ll be darned if I know how to use it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, this was a good excuse to finally learn to use iMovie &#8217;09, which I&#8217;ve been resisting for a long time. Turns out it has some great features; I was able to bump up the contrast and saturation a bit to overcome the flat light caused by the wildfire smoke in the air, and the last 20 seconds of the video feature the slow-motion capabilities of the application.<\/p>\n<p><i>*Isn&#8217;t it interesting that we still refer to video as &#8220;footage,&#8221; even though that measurement is completely irrelevant in our digital darkroom. Ooh, there&#8217;s another one&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the flock of avocets that visited our neighborhood pond last weekend? Sure you do! Anyway, I finally got around to editing the video I shot and I&#8217;ve uploaded it to YouTube. You can either view it there via this link, or just click the following embed. Note that the source footage* is HD so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/20\/110420-avocetvideo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avocet Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-photography","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}