As a photographer I am always looking at everything around me searching for some type of creativity, beauty, or inspiration. To make it anywhere you have to always be looking at others' work. I have a few photoblogs that I follow that continually have some really really good work on them. Every time I look at one these blogs I learn something, most of the time it won't be relevant but every once in a while I come by a really important piece of info that I end up using over and over again. Recently I've seen videos popping up more often on these photoblogs.
Nowadays photo and video are coming closer and closer together. With all the new digital SLRs coming out that shoot full 1080p HD video it is giving photographers a chance to put their creativity into a new aspect of media, video. I slowly started to see short video clips up on a few blogs that photographers had made using this new generation of cameras. I wasn't a big fan of most of them but a few of the videos really stood out to me. The ones that stood out were simple... mostly just nature, but the way that the photographer transferred his style from the still image format into that of a video was amazing. To me it wasn't a video at all, it was just an extension of his photographic abilities, he was transferring his style into a new format that brought across the same point to the viewer. He did it in a completely different way, the endpoint was the same but the path to that endpoint was refreshing and one that was much less less traveled.
After I saw this short clip I started to look at video in a different way. Video has always been another art form that I appreciate but it never really influenced me just because it seemed so different.
Most videos to me are just videos but I'm starting to recognize a few that really show style... a style that I can connect to photography in one way or another. These videos are the ones that truly inspire me because I can relate them to my own work and I can understand the style that the videographer is trying to get across.
The videographers in the ski industry are constantly producing amazing work. The styles of shooting and editing for film are so different from one another. Some produce incredibly artistic pieces or work that effortlessly connect all of the audio and visual parts into one flowing finished piece that portrays a distinct style.
This is(in my opinion) one of those videos:
Here's the shots of the week:
1 comment:
To me the vignette on most of these photos fell a bit too strong. The vignette is typically used to draw attention closer to the center or the subject. But for these landscapes, I fell that, as a viewer, I should be able to see all the detail in the photo. Some vignetting is great, and too much can really be a distraction.
The icicle photo is by far my favorite one out of the group. Strong detail, great composition and good use of light. It really reminds me of this photo that Dan C took one time of a girl in a shower, this really triggered that for me. Great job essex.
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