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lazaefair replied to your post “oh no i need to learn videography. i’ve been resisting it for. well,…”
Photographers are at an advantage when starting at videography. Yeah, you have to learn a few things about settings and frame rates and shutter speed and shiz, but you already know all about the important parts about composition and lighting. I’m a videographer so if you have any questions feel free to ask. :)
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS but most of them boil down to…
where do I start???
I mean. (That’s so cool, though, that you’re a videographer. That’s so cool! That’s like, a real-life actually-cool job. Wow.)
I do have software, and I’ve used video editing software before. I have most of an old version of Adobe Creative Suite (that I legit paid for) but that’s A Lot, so I might just… I have iMovie… and I might just use that. It might be enough.
I have a sinking feeling that shooting reasonable video raw footage stems from doing all kinds of good-practice disciplined photographer shit that I’ve just… never really actually learned, as a still photographer. Like #1 seems to be just use a fucking tripod you lazy idiot. I take absolutely awful video footage because I run around and turn the camera sideways and don’t hold it steady and try to hand-hold shit that absolutely can’t be hand-held. And the rapid improvement in digital still photographic technology has absolutely just enabled this– I recently was trying to do product shots in a not-all-that-well-lit space (i should’ve taken a shot of my whole rig, it was hilarious– big cookie sheets, one propped up on a Rubbermaid tote for a backdrop, on a clean [wiped down with a grimy towel] freezer top in an absolutely disgustingly filthy barn next to a window full of spider corpses, with a hand-held LED flashlight for fill lighting), and I was using a 100mm lens and hand-holding at fucking arm’s length over my head because I was too lazy to climb up onto a box to get the right angle, and I just… boosted the ISO up so my shutter speed would be fast enough to overcome the shake of my arm, rather than, you know, going and getting my tripod out of my car, changing to a shorter lens [wahh changing lenses is so hard boo hoo] so I could shoot at a closer angle, or even climbing up on the other freezer so I could support the camera with my body like a regular responsible human would have done. You can be so lazy as a still photographer, and it’s to the point where that’s all I know how to do, because you only have to be in the right position or do the right thing for fractions of a second while the shutter trips, and can be an absolute disaster the whole rest of the time. The videos I take reflect this in glaringly perfect clarity– I keep having like, half a second of beauty, and then five minutes of heavy breathing and shaking the camera and tripping over shit and getting in my own way while the autofocus needlessly hunts for something I absolutely could have keyed focus on before I hit the “record” button. That’s what my videos look like, and it’s hilarious, but it’s really easy to tell where I need to improve.
But I really do suffer a lot from where-do-i-start-ism in basically all of my life. Most of the things I have been held back from doing in my life, it’s been because I couldn’t figure out where to start. So I just gotta… get enough equipment that I have enough to do what I set out to do, and go from there.
#1 easy simple failsafe thing, though, is that I’m going to get the tripod, set the camera up in the greenhouse some fine day, get my settings all adjusted, point it at some rapidly-growing tiny plant, and leave it to do a time-lapse video using the in-camera settings because that would be so easy and would look cool. (At least, I hope that’s easy simple failsafe. LOL famous last words.)
I really need a drone, though. I’ve been trying to justify buying one for ages, and what it boils down to is that I don’t want to learn how to fly them, but. They’ve come way down in price. (We sell them, at work, but we hate and fear them, and see the worst of how people fuck them up, so. I’m super leery.)
I could justify it if it was for the farm. And especially if I extend myself and go shoot at other farms; there are so many similar farms real nearby who would probably love me to take video footage there, and my sister would probably very easily come up with interview frameworks, and it would be really neat to work with her and make by-farmers-about-farmers videos about the whole local community, you know? and that would be a really great project and would probably be super good for networking and promotion and such. But god. i have to do it, and I have to not be a lazy sack of shit about it, and that’s real hard, you know??
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lazaefair replied to your post “oh no i need to learn videography. i’ve been resisting it for. well,…”
Photographers are at an advantage when starting at videography. Yeah, you have to learn a few things about settings and frame rates and shutter speed and shiz, but you already know all about the important parts about composition and lighting. I’m a videographer so if you have any questions feel free to ask. :)
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS but most of them boil down to…
where do I start???
I mean. (That’s so cool, though, that you’re a videographer. That’s so cool! That’s like, a real-life actually-cool job. Wow.)
I do have software, and I’ve used video editing software before. I have most of an old version of Adobe Creative Suite (that I legit paid for) but that’s A Lot, so I might just… I have iMovie… and I might just use that. It might be enough.
I have a sinking feeling that shooting reasonable video raw footage stems from doing all kinds of good-practice disciplined photographer shit that I’ve just… never really actually learned, as a still photographer. Like #1 seems to be just use a fucking tripod you lazy idiot. I take absolutely awful video footage because I run around and turn the camera sideways and don’t hold it steady and try to hand-hold shit that absolutely can’t be hand-held. And the rapid improvement in digital still photographic technology has absolutely just enabled this– I recently was trying to do product shots in a not-all-that-well-lit space (i should’ve taken a shot of my whole rig, it was hilarious– big cookie sheets, one propped up on a Rubbermaid tote for a backdrop, on a clean [wiped down with a grimy towel] freezer top in an absolutely disgustingly filthy barn next to a window full of spider corpses, with a hand-held LED flashlight for fill lighting), and I was using a 100mm lens and hand-holding at fucking arm’s length over my head because I was too lazy to climb up onto a box to get the right angle, and I just… boosted the ISO up so my shutter speed would be fast enough to overcome the shake of my arm, rather than, you know, going and getting my tripod out of my car, changing to a shorter lens [wahh changing lenses is so hard boo hoo] so I could shoot at a closer angle, or even climbing up on the other freezer so I could support the camera with my body like a regular responsible human would have done. You can be so lazy as a still photographer, and it’s to the point where that’s all I know how to do, because you only have to be in the right position or do the right thing for fractions of a second while the shutter trips, and can be an absolute disaster the whole rest of the time. The videos I take reflect this in glaringly perfect clarity– I keep having like, half a second of beauty, and then five minutes of heavy breathing and shaking the camera and tripping over shit and getting in my own way while the autofocus needlessly hunts for something I absolutely could have keyed focus on before I hit the “record” button. That’s what my videos look like, and it’s hilarious, but it’s really easy to tell where I need to improve.
But I really do suffer a lot from where-do-i-start-ism in basically all of my life. Most of the things I have been held back from doing in my life, it’s been because I couldn’t figure out where to start. So I just gotta… get enough equipment that I have enough to do what I set out to do, and go from there.
#1 easy simple failsafe thing, though, is that I’m going to get the tripod, set the camera up in the greenhouse some fine day, get my settings all adjusted, point it at some rapidly-growing tiny plant, and leave it to do a time-lapse video using the in-camera settings because that would be so easy and would look cool. (At least, I hope that’s easy simple failsafe. LOL famous last words.)
I really need a drone, though. I’ve been trying to justify buying one for ages, and what it boils down to is that I don’t want to learn how to fly them, but. They’ve come way down in price. (We sell them, at work, but we hate and fear them, and see the worst of how people fuck them up, so. I’m super leery.)
I could justify it if it was for the farm. And especially if I extend myself and go shoot at other farms; there are so many similar farms real nearby who would probably love me to take video footage there, and my sister would probably very easily come up with interview frameworks, and it would be really neat to work with her and make by-farmers-about-farmers videos about the whole local community, you know? and that would be a really great project and would probably be super good for networking and promotion and such. But god. i have to do it, and I have to not be a lazy sack of shit about it, and that’s real hard, you know??
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