Noah B Woodworks

A woodworking page for the free time foot soldier

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Hello there! My name is Noah Budd and I am a woodworker from southeast Michigan. I hail from a small set of towns in the Upper Peninsula called Houghton/Hancock. I lived there for 24 of my 31 years, and graduated from Michigan Tech in 2019 in audio production.

In my free time I am a dad first and hobbyist second. I make music, read books, smoke pipes, and kayak fish. I am a broadcast engineer in my professional life, working an early morning 3:30 – 11:30 am shift. The early bird has most definitely gotten a worm or two.

Thanks for stopping by my site and feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @noahbwoodworks or via the email found on the contact page

-Noah

    Camera Usage and Sliders

    This week I’ve been subconsciously thinking about how to put my woodworking out there. I’ve made quite a few videos in many different styles, but I’ve never been able to land on anything solid. A few blog posts ago I stated what I think a good video is made of. It’s visually interesting, has a clean voiceover, and tells a story. What I missed in that post was a project that teaches something, or solves a problem. If you can teach something well with beautiful visuals, that is a winning combo.

    I’ve got three middle of the road cameras that are of decent quality. The one that looks the best is the hardest to use. It’s a Canon M50 with a nifty fifty millimeter lens and a speed boosted adapter. I can’t take stills with it but the video is beautiful. If I want to shoot 4k its 24 fps, so I usually shoot in 1080p to save on space and it generally looks fine. If I’m not mistaken this means that I’ve got to match my other cameras to this resolution and frame rate.

    I’ve got a GoPro Hero 13 black with a bunch of cool accessories. I bought the media mod, and the macro lens. I shot my last video with it in more of a vlog style and it did terribly. I learned that with woodworking, or any art piece that is consumed visually, the quality of the video is of the utmost importance. So now it is a question of how to utilize the GoPro. It takes fantastic time lapses. There’s no audio in the lapse, so it is quite easy to weasel into the edit. I’m thinking I need to make or buy a slider to add movement to those timelapses and play with motion. It could really shine when running the CNC for a long time. The GoPro also has this neat feature where it can easily switch between horizontal and vertical resolutions, which makes it really great for shooting footage for social media. It also will import directly to my phone with the GoPro app.

    My work just gave me an iPhone 16 Pro so I’m wondering if I can use its camera, which looks really good, to do some things for Instagram or even for my YouTube videos. One of my more successful YouTube videos was shot completely on iPhone. I did a weekly Instagram upload in a horizontal resolution (which looked completely amateur) and then segmented those edits together for the YouTube video. I’m sort of set on using the DSLR for the Youtube videos, but it might be worth it to shoot some projects for Instagram with the new phone.

    In general, especially for YouTube, every shot needs to be cohesive and well thought out. If I’m going to do a timelapse, then put the camera on a slider. If I’m doing handmade joinery, get a close shot with a good angle to show more detail. If I’m showing the final product, put it on a lazy Susan with awesome lighting. Make sure the colors and brightness are matching. Pick the music first and edit to the music, not the other way around.

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