My advice to you … never look into radio telescopes. And just to blow your mind: what you see with your eyes is not reality but a virtual image processed by your brain from electrical signals, same as phones. You will never ‘see’ anything as it actually is.
Ignoring the color banding, here’s your image with a bit of editing: increased contrast, texture, clarity, Dehaze, and reduced highlights.
See! You do have stars in London!
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Better results in a tripod. Colour banding is due to limited colours, you probably used jpg or HEIF at 8-bit: that’s 256 colours by three channels (RGB) = 16million colours. If you have ProRaw you get 12 bits, that’s 4096 colours per channel, times three channels = 68billion colours.
This is just outside of Stirling (Gargunnock), but facing away from the city. You can see on this light pollution map it’s in the yellow, which is not great. Green and blue are best. You should get something in north London.
The stars above the old Scottish country house we stayed in, #shotoniphone in Night Mode. Each exposure was 30 seconds (in a tripod). Tap and lock the screen, drag the slider down slightly to take out any over exposure of the sky while retaining the stars.
What’s the etiquette on a long-haul flight (13 hours) when the person next to you is unwell? I felt sorry for her but she coughed every five minutes (onto my arm) and placed all her snotty tissues into the seat pocket. I wore a mask (which I don’t enjoy) but she wouldn’t. My son is now unwell.
The play button doesn’t work 😡
Award winners will be announced at NAB in Las Vegas early April. This is an outstanding opportunity to have your #mojo work recognised internationally, and take part in #IJF25, the best journalism event on the planet. Here's the link with category and entry details: www.visualeditors.com
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@blackmagicdesign.bsky.social has donated four DaVinci Resolve Speed Editors (which includes the DaVinci Resolve Studio), and finalists each receive a $500 gift certificate for use at the Smart Film School.
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... Mojo Award winners will be screened in one of the theatres (and we hope to have a judges' panel discussion as well). The major award is sponsored by the United Nations agency International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with $US1000 cash prize for the Rural Voices category.
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The best use of Camera Control is by Blackmagic Camera app. If Apple keeps this feature, I hope they move it more to the right.
Who’s that?
Uh-oh, you're in trouble.
Adobe Podcast and Resolve, which also has AI audio.
It’s a one-click enhancement with % slider.
I did bring the slider down to 85%. Perhaps a strategy could be to run two tracks of audio - one original and the other AI - on top of each other and blend to retain background and realism. @marcsettle.bsky.social ?
Good topic for MojoFest. Pros will keep doing what they do but this type of AI enables more people to higher standards.
Interesting framing, I assume you are going to crop in 4k? And does that room have echoey audio to match the feel of the small space. You need to think about these things, you know.
I wonder if there's an AI plug-in that makes good audio sound echoey? Man, you are hard to please!
The angle is not great, normally I would use a more clearly intentional angle change. But it was a very tight space (shaping bay) so the angle was more determined by the framing. He had heaps of clutter on the sides I didn't want in the frame.
Both phones are in 4k and, yes, you could use one in 4k and crop in if you're delivering in HD.
Updating content for my Mobile Journalism students, I came across this interview I did with @marcsettle.bsky.social in a pokey little room at the BBC in 2017. I ran it through Adobe Podcast enhance speech AI, the results are quite impressive.
#mobilejournalism #mojo
Game-changer for my workflow. The remote feature in Black Magic Camera app: iPad controlling 2 iPhones. Acam set to 24mm, B is 48mm. Main audio on the Acam, using Rode AI-Micro with headphones to monitor, reference audio on Bcam.
#mobilejournalism #mojo
I see that your glass is half full.
