TIP - if you ever want your videos to not look like home-videos, you need to learn lighting. Sure run right out and over pay for American Cinematographer magazine, you will probably be using alot of those $10,000 KINO banks, right? Wrong. If you really want learn how to do some do-it-yourself lighting then get your ass over to STROBIST and start learning. Before you go let me qualify the recomendation. The STROBIST blog/website/comments are all about still photography off-camera lighting. Most of the comments are from people that dont seem to have the right gear to do off camera flash photography; however, the site is really about lighting. And the techniques translate over to video when you factor in that instead of using flash lamps, you will be using lamps that stay on instead. In that regards the STROBIST website is one heck of a free film school as long you ignore the fact that they are talking about flash. Figure out how to light like the examples with whatever instruments you can get. Learn light intensity, depth, reflectivity, diffusion, bounce. In other words if you read the whole site, and practice with lights, your videos will pop. Get busy and learn some lighting techniques. Home Depot lights work if you are good at white balance.
EDITORIAL - The reason that there are way more people on the still photography blogs is because still photography takes "no balls" you gotta be out of your mind crazy to make videos or motion pictures. Still photography is still pretty cool even if you just shoot pictures of birds and flowers with shallow depths of field. This doesnt cut it in video. To hold a viewers attention for a period of time, something interesting has to happen. This is not meant as any kind of a diss to photography, and admit that Henri Cartier Bresson did more with one frame that I will ever do with miles of video tape.
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