Yeah so... my assistant had a booth at a bridal fair this past weekend for her wedding invitation business, and across the way from her was a local photographer who she heard boasting about this incredible new technology they had to offer. It's like video, but with a DSLR camera, in the form of stills. Real cutting-edge stuff. Set to music even.
His wife is his second-shooter, and I'm thinking perhaps she doesn't have a clue what she's doing, so they came up with a plan where she could just hold the shutter down for the entire wedding.
I actually really like stop-motion video. For me personally, I would like something like that more than traditional video. I would have to see an example to know whether it is a gimmick or actually something decent. I will say, though...you are REALLY going to be tearing through some shutters doing something like that...
(not evening mentioning how annoying the constant shutter sound would be)
I was out the other night and saw a photographer shooting a family that was basically stop motion photography. I promise you I'm not exaggerating when I say that I saw her take about 250 photos in about 1 minute. No joke. She pushed the button and didn't let go for a minute. She was still shooting as she was posing them and talking to them. Then she did it again. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. She must have easily had 10,000 images from one family session.
joelconner wrote:
I actually really like stop-motion video. For me personally, I would like something like that more than traditional video. I would have to see an example to know whether it is a gimmick or actually something decent. I will say, though...you are REALLY going to be tearing through some shutters doing something like that...
(not evening mentioning how annoying the constant shutter sound would be)
I wasn't there, but from my friend's mouth: "At first I was like, that's sorta interesting, and a few seconds later I was like OMG that is SO annoying... OMG I am going to kill myself if I have to keep watching this."
And before they even told me how bad it was (I figured), my first thought was exactly that about the shutters. Clearly they haven't been doing it long because he's going to wear out those cameras in no time at all.
We have a couple in town who do that, but they do it differently. They set up an extra camera on a tripod for certain parts of the day and it takes photos every X seconds. The videos from the shots look AMAZING. Are you sure they were spray-and-pray shooters? Perhaps they were doing the same thing the couple here does.
DB wrote:
We have a couple in town who do that, but they do it differently. They set up an extra camera on a tripod for certain parts of the day and it takes photos every X seconds. The videos from the shots look AMAZING. Are you sure they were spray-and-pray shooters? Perhaps they were doing the same thing the couple here does.
Nope, definitely spray-n-pray. They described it in detail to me. Stop-motion and time lapse are not one in the same.
Yeah I was thinking something like DB said. I saw Altf make a vid out of a timelapse tripod cam and it was very cool. But to hand-hold the cam and just hold the button down? The resulting vid would be annoying...
DB wrote:
We have a couple in town who do that, but they do it differently. They set up an extra camera on a tripod for certain parts of the day and it takes photos every X seconds. The videos from the shots look AMAZING. Are you sure they were spray-and-pray shooters? Perhaps they were doing the same thing the couple here does.
that is awesome...I so love that kind of stuff. How do they get it to fire at regular intervals?
joelconner wrote:
wow....I had no idea there were such things. I guess you learn something new every day. Just looked them up on B&H. very cool.
yup...totally just bought one. I sold my old semi-busted 50 1.4 lens today for $200 and went straight to B&H and picked one up...excited to try that out.
You can get a yongnuo (sp?) intervalometer for ~$25 and they look, feel, and operate pretty identical to the canon offering. You can use them to tell some interesting chronology, but I find people based stuff to be trickier than nature stuff.
TTLKurtis wrote:
Nope, definitely spray-n-pray. They described it in detail to me. Stop-motion and time lapse are not one in the same.
Odd. I think the couple in town calls it stop motion, but it is definitely time lapse. We shoot more than your average photographer, and that's really only 3 shots per pose. Sheesh!
I think when your new the tendency is to overshoot, no? I know I did when I started, lol. Although, I was never as bad as some of you like Tony describe, thats unbelievable!
