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Microstock Footage Forum => General - Stock Video => Topic started by: Yay Images Billionaire on April 10, 2015, 02:45
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I've recently being trying to add to my video portfolio of taking video of almost everything I am taking photos of. This works fine for sights and places. But I also tried it for studio shoots with models.
The first time I just set up video lights and shot both with them, but I wasn't too happy with the photos; the video lights require that I shoot at 1/60 ISO800 which wasn't ideal for moving subjects (Granted that my video lights are bare minimum).
The second time I set up both video and strobe lighting as the model would do themes in sets and I would change between photo and video lighting as needed. In my smallish studio space this was quite a nightmare to set up properly without having lights get in each others way.
I'm wondering what workflow others use to shoot photo and video of models on location or studio.
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I don't try to do both. They require different lighting and a different frame of mind. One or the other.
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It has literally taken me years to do this. You have to plan in advance for the lighting. You can not do it on all shoots but you can on many. Like my keys shoots I used large reflectors which worked for both photo and video. You need to shoot video of the scene first then focus on photos of the same scene. Always capture what you need the most first and then get the other if you can.
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Sean and JJNEFF are both right in my experience. I've done both and not all situations are appropriate. Like Sean said, having two sets of lighting and swapping them out is a pain and if you get very involved in one, you lose focus on the other and its sometimes hard to get back into the saddle. If I am going to shoot, say, food (which I don't specialize in) I will do a dual shoot because food is hard to set up and look good...it's generally an art. So I don't want to look back and say, dang, I shoulda shot that when I had the chance. But other stuff like me washing a window just wasn't right to do a dual shot...very different set ups and easy to to one at one time and the other at another time. Really situational for me.
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Thanks. That all makes good sense.