Thanks Peter, great and Bruce:
final questions:
1-- on business side, just say YES, and then shut.. Don't talk process. Get the gig then simple iphone.
2- for non event/ natural light video... ie, when booking studio portrait strobe still sessions -- iphone still? with whatever light is in studio.. or..??
Since you’ve worked professionally for 20 years, you probably asked this but my first question about adding video would be what are the clients expectations? Do they want it to match quality of the stills you shoot? Will they pay more for the added video? Do they expect the video to be color graded? Does the video need to record dialog from the subject(s)?
I would imagine since this is a 3 hour shoot they probably don’t want to pay more, though when you reach in your pocket, pull out a mobile phone and shoot video, remember the clients (actually) everyone in the room has the same “video” camera as you.
As far as shooting video and stills in a studio, it depends on the scene and the studio. If it’s a natural light studio you can probably get away with something decent, but if it’s a black out studio your modeling lights probably won’t do the trick, just not enough output. If you want softlight a few kinoflows will work, if it’s a big set then that changes everything. Actually decent video is a daunting task to learn. It’s not just shooting it, it’s the lights, maybe sound, camera movement, framing having at least one dit man/woman check the integrity of the files because no matter how well you calibrate your camera lcd to the computer, things look very different in the computer.
My producer has an I-phone Xpro and it shoots some pretty good stills and in the perfect conditions some ok footage, but I’d be hard pressed to get a lot of footage from it.
Just a thought.
IMO
BC
