Editing DJI Spark photos

Just as I thought, the photos from the DJI Spark at dusk are completely useless.  The Spark is just not steady enough for anything slower than 1/100th of a second in shutter speed.  They're shaky and blurry.  The footage is a bit noisy but you can get rid of that in FCP X.  I'm actually editing the footage from last evening right now.  

The girlfriend and I went to church this morning followed by sushi and a movie.  So I'm just sitting here writing the blog while FCP X edits each clip.  They'll be up on Shutterstock, Pond5 and Storyblocks at some point.  I just wish Storyblocks was quicker at looking at each submissions.  They take up to 3-4 weeks to review the footage.  Shutterstock and Pond5 are 24-48 hours right now.

Favourite duck

I go to Mud Lake often to shoot nature and wildlife photography and wildlife videos.  Mud Lake is located in Ottawa.  It's a lake surrounded by a lush green forest and is near a water filtration plant.  It's a peaceful refuge if you just want to get away.  It's got several nature trails and is really convenient as it's located within city limits.

You get a lot of turtles and various water fowl.  A lot of herons and a lot of various types of ducks such as the above Male Wood duck.  It's my favourite kind of duck.  It's not as friendly as the regular mallard duck as they don't seem to like going near humans.  But that's ok for us photographers with our lenses and large sensors.  We can crop our photographs to still get a nice image.

Noiseless Pro

Noiseless Pro is a noise reduction plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom which reduces the noise or grain in your night or indoor photography.  Currently it only runs on Apple Mac computers.

As someone who shoots outdoors in low light or in night time, there is a lot of noise and grain in my photography.  Even using the latest camera bodies and lenses, you will get noise and grain.  Noiseless Pro gets rid of the noise and grain artifact in the photos quite easily.  You can check my night photography on my website or my microstock portfolio here and here.

I have been using Noiseless Pro for about 9 months now and have been going thru my previous shots and running them thru Noiseless Pro.  Everything is being accepted for sale whereas before it was not accepted because of high noise values.  The software is on the pricey side but you do get what you pay for.  The noise reduction in Photoshop and Lightroom CC is good, but not as good as Noiseless Pro.  That is why I would ask you to try and buy it here.  Purchasing the product also helps me out as I am an affiliate of MacPhun.