Who stares a Camcorder forever? but they do Still Camera.
I just wanna output everything I have before my energy to keep this blog runs out.
So, as on the title, Camcorder may be good for natural portraits.
I recently shot the engagement pictures of a couple. I took Canon Rebel(the oldest one) and 10D, and we went to a park in a cold day (about 10F, guys. frrrrrreeezing!).
Suddenly, 10D froze, and its shutter sticked and kept recording just black images.
It happened several times, and I couldn't get any good ones of them kissing. That's bad.
What if I used a camcorder to record it?
One good thing is I actually see what I'm shooting. SLR folds the mirror when it captures the image, so we can't see the very moment.
So many moments that I missed would have been saved and printed well on (at least) 4x6 pictures. And even a video to make extra worth to my work!!
Need some pictures to print big? That's why we still need a SLR. Most of the time, the picture people want to be printed big is kind of "set-up" shots, which we can easily take with any SLR.
So...
This degicade entry taught me how Dallas Morning News photographers do their assignments.
You know, there is a time for any photographer when s/he followed the senior staff and learned how to work with each assignment. We can virtually do that with three movies at the website.
Then, this site tells us how to make a good interview take.
Basically, you're not allowed to say anything during their speaking. No one wanna listen to your saying "aha."
Finally, Abilene Christian University in Texas puts good examples of what you should expect.
Personally I don't like that they don't come with any Voice Overs, but it's good enough.
They seem like using Canon GL-2 or 1 because they often forget to turn off IS feature when panning.
Anyway.
One problem before bringing a camcorder to field: permission.
Especially sports games. They often issue different kind of media pass from still to video.
That's one thing I'm worrying about, but it'll be overwhelmed by the wave of camcorders.
Related or not, some states are ruling NFL to allow any local TV to the sidelines. Things are changing so fast.
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=117836
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Since this is my first English blog (I have one in my native language), I am excited and keep putting things.
Our college newspaper, DailyNebraskan has press passes in most cases, but I'm not sure if we can bring a camcorder instead of still.
When I was in Japan, I used to use some translation engines to read English websites. It's kinda fun recreating English sentences in my mind as I read literally translated words.
You say "what's wrong?", but we say "did anything happen?"
Such things are really interesting when I teach Japanese to friends (or vice versa).