On Apr 17, 2:21 pm, Vance <Vance.L...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Besides the technical aspects already mentioned, shooting stills is a
> very different discipline artistically (using the term loosely). A
> completely different type of visualization is involved because a still
> has to carry more implicit information than a video and the
> photographer is involved in a different imagining process.
"Completely different" seems excessive for things which are so
similar.
> It
> happens, but it is rare, that a still from a video has the emotional
> or aesthetic impact that a specifically shot still can have.
Well, image quality wise, of course. But "art" doesn't have nearly as
much to do with the tool or process as does the artist or "beholder".
Two mediums, both with their strengths and weaknesses, but you can
shoot still video (as opposed to a video still), but still photographs
are somewhat limited in capturing motion.
> Videos have their effect on a viewer as a result of being a captured
> segment of time and reducing that segment to a singular moment of time
> usually results in a snapshot. Very occassionaly, I have worked with
> a very talented and award winning videographer and I wouldn't try and
> do what he does any more than he wants to try and do what I do. Give
> me his video equipment and I come up with imaginative home movies. A
> still camera in his hands results in very good, but somewhat sterile
> images that just barely get beyond being snapshots.
Beholder, etc.
> You aren't the first to think of this and there are very good reasons
> that pros, either from the videography or photography side, haven't
> jumped on the idea.
Tough to argue with that. And the OP is obviously exploring the idea
from a rather raw state of ignorance.
Just "going into" the "wedding memory" business without basic
knowledge of the technologies is fraught with perils. Most often, I
think, the photographer/videographer comes first, then they venture
into trying to make money from their craft, slash art, slash hobby.
And they can be great, but a lack of business acumen can leave them
broke.
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