Bruce, Your last paragraph does not match your first sentence. : )
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > This point may expose a flaw in your proposal. Your proposal (grabbing > thousands of indecisive moments at 30fps and hoping a decisive one > will be uncovered later) may be valid for a purely spectator event, > like sports. In these cases the photographer/videographer is a passive > observer of the scene. > > But for modelling, the photographer is a director of the event. The > intent is entirely different. As you are taking stills you observe how > the model is reacting and behaving and you direct her (or him) > accordingly to improve the results. In effect you create decisive > moments and use your sense of timing to grab them as they arrive. You > don't just passively fire away with the shotgun shutter and hope > you'll snare a good shot. > > I think you'd get an entirely different interaction happening if you > were directing the model while shooting video. You might not manage to > get the same intensity level as the stills session achieves. > > That said, I've seen a documentary where a photog used a RED camera to > shoot some modelling stuff at some crazy rate like 1000 FPS 4K images. > He did get some truly amazing shots. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
