Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 19th, 2014, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,511
One point of failure vs many?
Three situations:
-- Shooting the entire day on one 64gb card
-- Shooting it on two 32gb cards
-- Shooting it on four 16gb cards
Which is best? Or are they all equally good/bad?
In the...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 19th, 2014, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,504
Circular light sources?
One thing that's been bugging me for a while -- the LEDs I use (and most of the cheaper LED lights available) are rectangular. Now, this means they often look dodgy when you see them in the...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 18th, 2014, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 4,430
Re: Defective tape catastrophe, time for tapeless?
I did have a corrupted SD card recently, so it does happen, but the sound recorder told me there was a problem with the card before I started recording, so I didn't lose anything. Also, that's one...
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Forum: Wedding & Event Video Sample Clips Gallery
November 17th, 2014, 12:25 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,223
Re: My second wedding highlight (Asian wedding)
Hey Al, welcome to the forum!
I don't have much to say. I thought your video was great; please post more!
Shot by shot it seemed very controlled, beautiful. Some great low angle slider shots,...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 16th, 2014, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,772
Re: What size USB do I need?
I'm really happy with Flashbay as well -- cheap, fast delivery, good presentation -- though I'm starting to look around for fancier USBs.
I'm just getting company name printed on mine, though, in...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 15th, 2014, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 13,348
Re: Canon 70-200mm F/4 vs. F/2.8 for Ceremony
Filmed an awesome wedding yesterday where the ceremony was held on a racetrack, and the bride and groom went drifting instead of doing a photoshoot. Since we couldn't get close to the action, part of...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 15th, 2014, 11:10 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,102
Re: Odd...But Useful Gear
I recently bought a roll of Velcro for cable management. Don't know why I didn't do it years ago.
In the car, we carry a "bridal repair kit" -- a little plastic box with safety pins, and a small...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 15th, 2014, 10:51 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,093
Re: Lighting the Reception
My setup is a few Switronix Torch Bolt bi-color LED lights on light stands. Usually three, but at the moment just two, because I left one at a bride's house dammit.
I don't like using hot lights,...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 14th, 2014, 02:03 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,239
Re: Traveling out of country to shoot a wedding
That's a really interesting question. The practical answer is, of course, to tick the box saying you're there for a holiday.
The legal answer is that laws will vary from country to country. No...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 13th, 2014, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 9,227
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Forum: Wedding & Event Video Sample Clips Gallery
November 12th, 2014, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,631
Re: Wedding on Guernsey
Luke, for what it's worth, here's two things your reception dancing reminds me of:
-- Lens whacking. Not sure if you've seen any of James Miller's lens-whacking videos, but there's a sort of...
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Forum: Wedding & Event Video Sample Clips Gallery
November 12th, 2014, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,631
Re: Wedding on Guernsey
Hey Luke, thanks for posting. My main reactions are:
* 0:12: dress shot -- really liked that the dress shot had foreground in it. I think the temptation I fall into is to get boring dress shots...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 12th, 2014, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 53
Views: 13,348
Re: Canon 70-200mm F/4 vs. F/2.8 for Ceremony
I tend to leave IS on when I'm on sticks, and haven't had any problems that I've noticed... except for the sound of the IS, in cases where I've had to use in-camera sound.
My friend uses a 24-105...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 12th, 2014, 02:58 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,772
Re: What size USB do I need?
In your situation, I'd definitely go 8gb.
Just looking at my files sizes, I'm getting about a minute = 60mb. So 5 + 20 + 60 minutes = 85 minutes = 5.1gb.
My rendering specs are just basic...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 11th, 2014, 03:39 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,230
Re: Micing up a celebrant who doesn't have pockets
Thanks Michael! I think I'll buy a couple of those. Won't use them for weddings though. I've got a feeling if I asked a celebrant whether I could attach one of these under her dress, she'd tell me...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 11th, 2014, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,230
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 11th, 2014, 04:45 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,230
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 10th, 2014, 11:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,230
Micing up a celebrant who doesn't have pockets
So, we often come across female celebrants with pocketless and beltless dresses. What to do? Usually we default to relying on some other audio source, like a Yamaha taped to a microphone. On one...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 10th, 2014, 03:55 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,731
Re: How much do you use a glide/flycam ?
I've got the luxury of doing almost every shoot with at least two people. When working with my usual second shooter, basically he's on a steadicam all day, looking for wide-angle and moving-shot...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 10th, 2014, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 13,348
Re: Canon 70-200mm F/4 vs. F/2.8 for Ceremony
Well, just using a Mk3 here. What I'm finding is that f/4 is not practical for receptions, and that there are many times where I'm at f/2.8, 6400 ISO and 30 shutter speed and still starving for...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 8th, 2014, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,179
Re: ?Ways to Use a GoPro - And which one?
One reason not to get it: I'm pretty sure it would have a lower battery life than older GoPros. I've got a GoPro 1 and a GoPro 3, and the original seems to last at least two to three hours, if not...
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Forum: Wedding & Event Video Sample Clips Gallery
November 8th, 2014, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 8,027
Re: Ceremony on the lake front
That "say the info" tip is a good one. We generally say it ourselves, and the main information is where the mic/recorder is located. Otherwise, if you attack a reception with a bucketload of sound...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 6th, 2014, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,108
Re: Portability with a 3-axis gimbal
Hey Clive, by the way, have you considered a steadicam solo or steddiepod or similar "bastardized" device?
Edit: here's some further possibilities:...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 6th, 2014, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,097
Re: Getting hired by a weddingplanner
I've only encountered one before, in Melbourne. There were a couple of things that went awry. I can't remember all of them, but the planner was definitely in the bride's bad books. One big issue was...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
November 4th, 2014, 08:48 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,352
Re: Feedback on my work.
Lots of ideas in this forum if you look through the threads. But the best summary I've seen (and I've used all these methods at one time or another) is Taky Cheung's blog article:
Different...
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