Bucking the nation-wide trend, the York Daily Record's print circulation is holding steady, but the YDR is jumping into the digital and internet world as well with both feet. Our goal is to do one video that's posted at YDR.com daily.
I grew up with box cameras and large format film, and then to 35mm film (including recording film), eight-frame per second motor drives and lenses large enough to keep large boats at anchor. This change is admittedly rather intimidating and confusing, but certainly interesting, challenging and most of all, a whole lot of fun.
The biggest challenge in video is the time it takes to put a video together. In digital print, we can bang out a photo, from download to completion, in 10 minutes or less, and then move on to another assignment. Video sometimes takes hours. And hours. Much of what I do is sports related, or done on Excursions. When I go out of town, I shoot videos most often with my little point-and-shoot Luminex. It lacks the prime sound quality and versatility of our the big cameras, but it's handy and in a pinch, it'll do just fine.
So, when not working, I practice on off-hours in an attempt to grow in this medium. This is a video done on a New Year's visit to Quebec City, and the celebration there. It's not going to win any film awards, but capturing the French music and the dancing, smiles and fireworks certainly has advantages over still pictures.
We edit our work on Adobe Premiere. Hope you like it.
Did you shoot this video with a point-and-shoot like the little ones we have in the office? The sound quality is really good!
just spent a cold wintry day viewing pictures on your blog...9 degrees at breakfast. What a JOY to check out your archives list. Loved the pictures in Fairport Harbor, Ohio and the no hunting sign in PA and the turkey. What a great calendar these photos would make---you could make millions!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, and yep, same little camera. It's not nearly as crisp as the big Sony cameras, but it'll do when it's all you've got...
Thanks! When I get old, I'll sit down and process all those pictures that are sitting in shoe boxes under the bed. By then, I'll need the millions. Or even a hundred.