Videography and Photography= Votography? Do I understand this correctly?

[Peter Ralph]

For lighting Russ Lowel’s “Matters of light and depth” is a great resource written for both photographers and videographers. Skills relating to composition, interaction, anticipation and motivation also transpose seamlessly between the two crafts. The differences between the skills required for portrait photography and photojournalism are probably greater than the intrinsic differences between photo and video.

[Charley King]

[jd] “However, as video cameras develop will there be a new oppurtunity to learn the craft of shooting a certain way, in order to grab the right frames in post, to create a portfolio of photographs? An entirely new skill set that combines both arts?”

Forget technology as a deterrent or helpful tool, I’m sure you could do an adequate job thinking of both, and shooting to get an acceptable product of both, but you will never be really good at either attempting to do both at the same time.

Charlie

[Peter Ralph]

Charlie – do you remember the “impossibility” of going on a shoot without a sound-guy? “Ridiculous to compromise quality in that way – no-one can do a good job recording sound and picture”. How many times have you heard that one?

Or maybe you remember the absurdity of suggesting that shooters could edit their own footage? 10 years ago that was just plain common sense right? After all the skills are totally different.

Are you saying that only studios which use professional dedicated editors, lighting crew, sound guys, DPs, directors etc can produce a quality product? That is certainly a valid point of view but somewhat eccentric when talking about wedding video in 2006.

There are thousands of photographers and videographers who are realising that a product combining the best of photo and video into one presentation package can actually raise perceived quality (i.e. value/price).

The times are a changing Charlie. Always have been, always will be. Change is the only constant.